Beginers Age
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Beginers Age
Curious as to the age of other beginers, I'm 63, had my Carter SD10 about 2 months and ocasionaly fumble my way through something simple, so whats your age, etc, and how are you progressing?? Good Luck
Larry
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Hey Larry,
I'm 25 and have been playing for 6 months now. I'm progressing pretty good. I've got together with Don Curtis here in St. Louis, whose an excellent teacher, and my progression has really sped up. I've just joined a country band here in town, and that has also sped things up. I also recommend Band in a Box, just an excellent program. Ward
I'm 25 and have been playing for 6 months now. I'm progressing pretty good. I've got together with Don Curtis here in St. Louis, whose an excellent teacher, and my progression has really sped up. I've just joined a country band here in town, and that has also sped things up. I also recommend Band in a Box, just an excellent program. Ward
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Started at 47, now I am 48 and still starting. My primary resource has been Scotty's E9th Book with CD published by MelBay. I like the book in that it encourages you to read the notes rather than just rely on the tab, plus provides fundamental music theory. As a break from that I will play tabbed material without thinking too much about the notes. Also have Herby Wallace starting material for the C6 but have been mostly concentrating on the E9.
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Lawrence, I'm 49 and have been playing professionally for 25 or 26 years. I still feel like a beginner in some ways- there is always so much to learn and discover, I think that's one of the true joys of our bizarre instrument- something to look forward to learning and growing on for as long as we can hold a bar!
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It's great to know I'm in such good company, I started Lap Steel last year when I was 60.
For many years I played acoustic guitar but after coming out to St Louis I was totally, totally hooked on Steel and just had to get involved and have not looked back since. Everyone on the forum has been so helpful with basic information and encouragement, thanks to b0b and all.
For many years I played acoustic guitar but after coming out to St Louis I was totally, totally hooked on Steel and just had to get involved and have not looked back since. Everyone on the forum has been so helpful with basic information and encouragement, thanks to b0b and all.
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After playing lap steel and Dobro for a couple of years, I started playing pedal steel about 1974 at the age of 28. I only played a year or so before I quit music altogether and went back to school. About a year ago, at the age of 56, I started playing again. Here on the Forum I consider myself a beginner. I now play with other amateurs in about 3 different bands, 3 different kinds of music. I've tried to tell them I'm just a beginner, but they think because I'm so old I must have been playing for many years.
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I'll be 35 in exactly one month. Got my first steel (a Sho-Bud Pro II) when I was in college. So I must have been around 21.
Since then, I've had an MSA classic 12, a Carter Starter, a Sierra Session 12 (that a should have kept) and my current Session 12 (the one that just burned in my house fire 2 weeks ago.)
I could play with a band now but I don't really have any urge to do so. I'd rather play bass in a band. Pedal steel requires too much effort and I wouldn't be able to play AND sing.
I'm a better singer than steel player.
http://16tracks.com/songs/KissAnAngelGoodMorning.mp3
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Since then, I've had an MSA classic 12, a Carter Starter, a Sierra Session 12 (that a should have kept) and my current Session 12 (the one that just burned in my house fire 2 weeks ago.)
I could play with a band now but I don't really have any urge to do so. I'd rather play bass in a band. Pedal steel requires too much effort and I wouldn't be able to play AND sing.
I'm a better singer than steel player.
http://16tracks.com/songs/KissAnAngelGoodMorning.mp3
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I'm 32 and just starting out. I bought my first steel in August (Sho-Bud LDG). As for progress, well, I'm using Winnie Winston's book but haven't carved out much practice time yet. So I'm still trying to play the first little song in that book, "Red River Valley," up to the speed of the CD. Almost there. I also have Jeff Newman's Pedal Steel 101 videos, which I'll be starting this week. It's been fun so far.
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I was 41 when I started steel. Been a musician for over 30 years. I am now 43 and have had a lot of encouragement and "lessons" from several very good Iowa steel players. I still say "I should have" started 20 years ago, but...as they say, "I could have if I only would have..." Never too late to start if you have a true love for the instrument and realize that there are no boundaries.
Kirk
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I never had a desire to play steel. I mean I never "tried" to take up steel. I bought a Marlen S-10 (found a real good deal)for my 17 year old son who is really progressing well on tele. We we're just going to store it for a year until he was ready for it. There was a beginner's video tape in the case, so we put it on for kicks and grins, and after watching it for 10 minutes, I says "I can do this!!!" So that Marlen never made it to storage, and I have been on it ever since, until I sold it to get a Marlen D-10. Now I'm taking on the C-6th neck(with Jeff Newman's C-6th Workshop). I have been at it about 10 months time spent, and have played gigs on steel about 5 of those months. I am crowding 49, and am fascinated with steel!! I have never paid attention to steel before, but now I hear steel in all the old songs I played guitar and bass to, and was bored with. Hearing them from a steel players point of view, they are all fresh now!! I am very lucky in that I am in a band where everyone is easy going and puts up with me learning steel. We play a clean family oriented opry. My boy is in this band, too, and he plays lead guitar and sings. I am so lucky to play in a country band with my son, teaching him the country songs, the way country used to be. These are some of my finest family memories in the making. My whole family is there and either playing or listening!!! I play most of the bass, so he can grow better as a musician/singer. He plays bass on the last set so I can play steel. It makes a perfect situation for me to learn steel. He took up fiddle, saying, we need a fiddle player, not another steel player. He will take up steel probably next year. He also says "It's so hard to raise parents these days!!!!" I can't say enough good for this forum and the support to the entry level players like us, and this whole thread!!! Thanx. <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by James Morehead on 16 November 2003 at 11:20 AM.]</p></FONT>
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Larry --
Couldn't resist adding my 2 cents. I was was about six weeks shy of 50 years old when I started playing pedal steel. I'll turn 52 in about three months.
I have two kids at home, which often makes the decision between family time and practice time a tough one. Oh, how I wish I had started during my teens or twenties, when I was single and had the appropriate number of hours available to invest in practicing!
Mac
Couldn't resist adding my 2 cents. I was was about six weeks shy of 50 years old when I started playing pedal steel. I'll turn 52 in about three months.
I have two kids at home, which often makes the decision between family time and practice time a tough one. Oh, how I wish I had started during my teens or twenties, when I was single and had the appropriate number of hours available to invest in practicing!
Mac
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I was 20 years of age when I started to learn to play steel. I'm now 53 and a fairly accomplished steel guitarist, and play regularly at church funtions and revival meetings, etc. Even have my own studio where I record tracks and cd's for people who want them.....My love for this instrument has not diminished one bit from when I started. It's the greatest, as far as I'm concerned, instrument ever created. For those of you who started later in life and for the younger generation who have started playing the steel guitar, keep it up, because we never want to see this instrument go into extinction. The environment of our world would never be the same........KEEP PLAYING! HAL
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Be Blessed........HAL
'85 Emmons LeGrande D-10, Rack w/Evans, Lexicon MPX100 (2)1501-4 BW's IN PRO Cabs, & a Sound Tech PL500 Power Amp.
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Be Blessed........HAL
'85 Emmons LeGrande D-10, Rack w/Evans, Lexicon MPX100 (2)1501-4 BW's IN PRO Cabs, & a Sound Tech PL500 Power Amp.
Larry,
I have loved the steel since I was a teenager but never took the time to do anything with that love.
I retired in 2000, at age 62, and the steel was the first post retirement activity I started. I have never regreted that move.
I will always be a "beginner" and enjoying it.
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Allen Harry
Zum SD10
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I have loved the steel since I was a teenager but never took the time to do anything with that love.
I retired in 2000, at age 62, and the steel was the first post retirement activity I started. I have never regreted that move.
I will always be a "beginner" and enjoying it.
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Allen Harry
Zum SD10
Nashville 1000
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