The Steel Guitar Forum

Hey !!! How about Chuck Lettes
He has well over two hundred songs you can pick from. All come with easy to read tabs
and easy to follow casettes.
His lessons have helped me a great deal and I highly recomend him.
Call him for a price list - 303-797-1134

It's fun to see what's influenced people. For me, it started out with Winnie's book and Jeff's "Music To Steel By" album, followed by his constant updates. God rest his soul, I miss him dearly and I feel sorry for the future players that will never meet him. Then Buddy, Herbie, Mr. Palousek and Mr. Loessberg, especially for the back neck, which I've only really explored for the last 5 or 6 years.

But you know what? The most valuable pieces of instruction I've had in the last couple of years were the following: (1) Jay Dee's short course and video, which taught me more than I ever thought I could learn about the stuff I was trying to figure out 30 years ago; and (2) Tommy White's video, which helped me immensely in basic tone and technique. I would really love to see more from those two.

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Ken Drost
steelcrazy after all these years

I had an interesting experience with Jeff Newman's "Up from the top" tapes". I watched the first one once, and thought "well that was a waste of money, I know all of that" but then I realized that I didn´t know it before seeing the tape. Jeff explained things so simply and step by step that there´s never a moment when you feel lost. Everything is immediately understandable.

Well worth the money. Fantastic teaching ability. Really need that when you are learning thousands of miles away from the nearest steeler.

Jeremy Willliams
Barcelona Spain
Carter U12 7+7

I started with the three E9 CD's on Paul Franklins site. It took me six months to get it all down. Then I got the Winnie book. Damn, I think I did it all backwards. Playing Londonderry Aire after beginning with Franklin's "Uptempo Chord Playing" was surely a breeze.

Scotty's big book, and Joe Wright's Technique Bundle. The first song I learned was out of Scotty's book.

-Travis

The first books I got were Scotty's Anthology nad Winnie's book. The course that I learned the most from was Jeff Newmans Steel Guitar Monthly correspondence course. It was more of a step by step format which hepled me consentrate on finishing it. I have a bad habit of buying courses and then picking and choosing the parts that I like. It seems that I'm always looking forward to when I might have a little more time to work with them. Two that I bought recently are Herb Stiener's Dobro course and his Swing songs on E9th, both are very good.

Jeff Newman's 'Just Play The Melody"

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Zum D10 /8x5 / session 500rd/ American Strat Highway 1 model
steelin for my Lord

Reece Anderson's missing link and Jeff Newman's "Just Jammin"

Wayne

I have heard a lot about Winnie Winston's book. Is it still in print, where can I get a copy of it?