Lap Steel Guitar Chord Studies C6/A7 tuning

Mike A Holland · Post by **Mike A Holland** » 11 May 2019 5:12 am

One of the most important aspects of playing guitar is chordal accompaniment. But it is one of the more challenging aspects of playing lap steel guitar. I have a copy of the Jerry Byrd Lap Steel method and there are 6 chord studies that I have been working on. I thought I would record a couple of these with some basic ukulele backing to practice over. If any body is interested in trying these I have played the backing chords after the studies and and included the tabs for you to play along with.
Jerry Byrd's chord study no1 and No2. These studies will give you alternative options for playing over basic chord progression using bar slants. This is for 6 string lap steel guitar tuned to C6/A7 although most of it will work on straight C6 tuned guitars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDXpzWlnPo&t=39s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45Jb5G6f-w
There are links to free tabs in the YouTube descriptions.

I hope you all enjoy,
Mike

Steve Marinak · Post by **Steve Marinak** » 11 May 2019 7:00 am

Very nice of you Mike, thank you!

Ronald Lee White · Post by **Ronald Lee White** » 11 May 2019 10:21 am

Yes, thanks a lot.

Phil Donnison · Post by **Phil Donnison** » 14 May 2019 3:49 pm

Hi Mike, Thanks for posting the clips on Youtube. I have the Jerry Byrd course too but I haven't been doing much practice lately and this has inspired me to get going again! What amp do you use with your Epi Electar?

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 14 May 2019 4:57 pm

Nice job, Mike. There's a lot of useful information in those tabs and clips.

Michael Sheehan · Post by **Michael Sheehan** » 15 May 2019 5:29 pm

Thank you! Great studies.

Mike A Holland · Post by **Mike A Holland** » 16 May 2019 10:32 am

Thank you all for your kind comments....I really appreciate them.
Phil, I play through a little Yamaha THR10 on the acoustic setting. It is recorded directly through USB into a PC!
Mike

Luke Foo · Post by **Luke Foo** » 17 May 2019 1:45 pm

Thanks Mike. I've downloaded the tabs.