Thanks Frank, Mark, and others. Yes, the notes are very helpful. Even if a player does not know the
pitch of the notes he can see the
time value of the notes. The tablature And the notes together pretty much cover it all.
There has been a lot of discussion on this forum in past years about notation as applied to the pedal steel guitar. Most PSG players agree that because there are
so many locations on the fretboard to play the exact same note, reading notes for pedal steel is extremely difficult. Unlike a piano... middle C can be played in many locations, different strings, different frets, with or without pedals, with or without levers, etc. Some notes can be played in about 15 different locations.
So I start by learning a melody on the first 5 frets or so, and then I play that same melody in another position, higher frets, experiment with different harmonies, different voicings, always keeping the melody note at the
top of the voicing.
Lloyd Green once described this process of putting together an arrangement. He said he looks for
the smoothest way to play a phrase. That about says it all! There are many ways to play the same thing on steel, but we're all looking for the smoothest way IMHO.
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