ADVICE NEEDED - Beginner Lap Steel Instructional DVD's

[John Morris]

What would be the best beginner DVDs for lap steel. Playing rock, blues, southern rock. Learning dobro in G and have Cashdollar and Douglas DVDs. Probably interested in open E and D?
Thanks for all the lap steel purchase advice. I bought a used Supro that sounds great.

[Ray Langley]

"Play Elmore James" by Max Milligan!

[Stephen Abruzzo]

I see that you've played guitar for a while.....so I feel comfortable in recommending these Arlen Roth Lap Steel and Beginning Dobro DVDs that are both in Dobro G and Open E/D

http://elderly.com/videos/items/01-DVD539.htm

http://elderly.com/videos/items/01-DVD715.htm

He moves pretty quickly so not beginner material in the strictest sense. But he's a good teacher.

The only difference between Dobro G and Low Bass Open G is the bottom 2 strings, so whatever the Dobro DVDs show on the top 4 strings is applicable to Lap Steel Low Bass Open G. I'd like to recommend these Orville Johnson (2) and Doug Cox DVDs:

http://elderly.com/videos/items/457-DVD110.htm

http://elderly.com/videos/items/457-DVD112.htm

http://elderly.com/videos/items/457-DVD103.htm

As to Open E/D lap steel, a good slide guitar DVD should cover what you need for accompanied lead work. David Hamburger has an excellent Slide DVD series out on truefire.com.

[George Piburn]

Forum Member Mark Vanallen has exactly what you want.

http://www.markvanallen.com/store_books.html

Hope this helps you and him.

[Ray Langley]

Here is a link to David Hamburger's Slide Shop on Truefire:

http://truefire.com/blues-guitar-lesson ... lide-shop/

Please be advised that Mark Vanallen's course is AUDIO only. There is no video or tab.

[Stephen Abruzzo]

Thanks Ray for the link.

John,
Here are 2 more DVDs.
Bob Brozman Lap Steel Vol #1...http://elderly.com/videos/items/300-DVD322.htm

David Hamburger Electric Slide Guitar. This was put out before his Slide Rules DVD listed above. Pretty good stuff to get you started.
http://elderly.com/videos/items/25-DVD320507.htm

[John Morris]

Thanks for the great ideas and links. Any other suggestions. Ordering a couple tomorrow.

[Bobby Branton]

Lessons by troy has gotten into online lap steel lessons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFPZZZ-Tbw

[Ray Langley]

Most of the instructional materials are catered to a certain "sound" or style of music. Who do YOU want to sound like? I suggested the inexpensive Elmore James DVD because that is exactly what I want to sound like in Open D/E tuning. But, maybe some other player rings your bell.

For instance, years ago I ordered "Slide Guitar for Blues, Lap Style" by Bob Brozman. It's 2 DVDs with tab. It sounded ideal. But, I didn't care for the acoustic lap sound. This offering has lots of alternating bass fingerpicking along with lots of hammers on and pick offs. That's how I have played armpit guitar for 50+ years. What I really wanted was electric blues.

I want to sound like Duane Allman playing the slide solo on the 8-Bar Blues, Key to the Highway! It's in the key of A, in Open E tuning. To me, that is nine minutes and 41 seconds of bliss.....

[Stephen Abruzzo]

I almost forgot Michael Messer's Intro to Lap Steel
http://www.michaelmesser.co.uk/MICHAEL% ... %20DVD.htm

Excellent beginner material that is served slowly. Can't remember if it's in Open D/E or Open G. Definitely not C6.

Ray makes an excellent point, but given your intro statement of what tunings you play in, the skills developed in some of these DVDs will serve you well on electric.

Depending on your slant of blues or countrified blues, I would recommend the Messer Into DVD and then follow that up with the Orville Johnson 2-pack for more country-sounding blues or Arlen Roth/David Hamburger for bluesy stuff.

[Ray Langley]

Mary Flower also has a new DVD, "Lap Slide Blues for the Solo Player, Hone Your Skills in Open D". It is along the same lines of Orville Johnson and Brozman.