| BYO steel to lessons |
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| Nah, save your back for playing |
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Topic: lesson traditions |
Alfred Ewell
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 9:41 am |
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I'm having some trouble getting a case and starting to wonder if it's holding me back (besides not playing half the week). Do you usually need to bring your own steel to a lesson? It makes sense to me (except maybe the setup/teardown time), but maybe they're almost standard enough (?). A fiddle's a fiddle (he said owning a 5-string:), but I bring mine to lessons and brought my 4-string (excuse me, violin) when I started, but this seems more akin to moving furniture  So - am I full of it (worry) to feel caselessness is keeping me from lessons? I found two most excellent teachers in range and, well, do you BYO or is there a "student steel" on hand usually. Of course maybe "usually" is rainy Tuesdays and third Saturdays:) |
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Paul Crawford
From:
Orlando, Fl
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 11:38 am
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| Steel guitars are as personal as underwear. You really want to learn on your own gear. |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 12:04 pm
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Hi Alfred,
We have several fine case makers here on the forum. They can make a case that fits your guitar like a glove using dimensions you give them over the phone.
Fred Justice made mine and I am very happy with it.
Ive heard some forum members say they transport their steels assembled with no case. i guess they bungie chord it down in the backs of their trucks or minivans? Id get a case tho.
steels are very personalized. Not just in tuning and copedant, but also in pedal height, level tension, etc. Like Paul said, you want to learn on your own.
Ive had a lesson without my own steel while traveling. Two hours. It was one of the best lessons I've had, but it was a one-off lesson with a fantastic teacher and if I were to go back to him for more, we'd both want me to have my own steel.
In addition to learning on your own instrument, its far more efficient and easier to learn if both teacher and student are sitting behind a steel.
The case is a worthwhile investment for your instrument.
best of luck! |
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Alfred Ewell
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 12:31 pm
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Well I reckon that tears it - it's unanimous for BYO steel. Which is as I'd thought. Another takeaway is: never buy without a case. I feel certain I'm going to pay more for the case than I paid for the steel ($250), and that the woodsman building my case since July hasn't started on it. Another turnaround plays itself:)
Thanks for the replies and votes. |
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 6:40 pm
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I take lessons locally here, and usually bring my steel already setup without its case in my car on some padding. I know of a few players that do this on gigs as well. The roads are pretty smooth, and its a short trip, otherwise get that case. 
Clete |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 8:13 pm
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I keep a second steel ready for students. I've taken lessons from Charleton using one of his steels. In many cases it doesn't work out that a student can bring there own instrument. Its not a problem at all. It can be good to play a different instrument at a lesson.
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Tommy Wayne
From:
Nevada, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2010 8:56 pm Try This
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Find a teacher who will come to your house. Your lesson will never exceed your guitars capability and when the lesson is over the instructor leaves and you PRACTICE WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED instead of packing up a steel, driving home, putting the case in the corner and watching TV!
TW |
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2010 7:30 am
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well if you only paid $250 for the steel i guess you could think of the case money as a small portion of the money you saved on the steel 
You could go buy a ten dollar shotgun bag for the legs, rods and pedal rack and then wrap the body in a blanket and wedge it in the backseat. Bam. |
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john widgren
From:
Wilton CT
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Posted 20 Oct 2010 7:44 am Lessons
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I provide highest quality professional instruments and amp rigs for all my students to play at our sessions, set up, mechanically tweeked to perfection and ready to go with very standard Emmons set ups.
Of course if a student chooses to play his/her own guitar, that's never a problem.
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Steel Guitar Services:
Live performance and recording. Instruments, repairs and lessons. Fresh bait/discount sushi.
(203) 858-8498
widcj@hotmail.com |
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Bill Mayville
From:
Las Vegas Nevada * R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Oct 2010 6:46 am Students and there guitars,at lessons
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The only reason someone will tell you to bring your own steel fot a one hour lesson,just is not up to parr.
Most of my students have D-10's.Why,D-10's???
They were very motivated and thought someday they could start learning the C-6th neck.The stability of a D-10 and a S-10,is normally not comparable.Just watch a player sometime with a single neck.Unless his guitar is special,it hops around the area he is playing in.(Hops may be a little toobroad.)My single Jackson moves a litle.
Anyway,while teaching one on one,I used to have three guitars.Two doubles ,one single.A new Mullen,a new Emmons,and the now famous Jackson.All students were playing the Doubles.One to show how easy it COULD be to learn the C-6th neck.Most enjoyed the setup,and the others traded back to Harmonica;s.
And a little leaning on a steel is very natural.
Except for Sundays my hands cannot go to my lap.
Bill
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Bill Mayville
06 Jackson Commemorative ,S 10
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