The Steel Guitar Forum

Quote " but moving them to the wrong places. "

Jody Jody Jody !!
I want you to know !! I own
the franchise on that !!! - if your
doing that you stole it from me .
maybe we should write a book on
wrong place notes - some ain't to bad
Others make the paint peel of the walls .

Bob

I bought a D-8 stringmaster a year ago. I('ve been playing guitar for a long time and wanted to start with something simple. The guitar sounds great but I got sick of hearing so many songs with pedals in them and I felt like I was not able to get those sounds, for obvious reasons!

I bought a d-10 sho bud professional because I could use the pedals on the E-9 neck and still make play the C-6 neck for non pedal stuff. I haven't had a hard time with the slants on a sho bud but maybe I'm missing something. One nice thing about using slants on a pedal steel is that you can check your slants in a number of places with your pedals, to make sure you are getting it right. I have found this to be usefull.

I my fifteen years of playing semi professionaly I have learned a thing or two... the crowd doesn't give a dam about what you are playing, only the guitar players. I doubt a crowd will notice that you play a pedal steel and I highly doubt they will have a problem with the tone.(How many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb? 100... one to do it and 99 to sit and watch and say "I can do that")

In short, I wish I had gone directly to the sho bud, I feel like the fender is gathering a little dust. The sho buds weigh a ton though and are a pain to move around compared to a smaller lap or console.

I have had much more luck finding instructional material on pedal steel!

Steve Walz

I have found the old Shobuds, like a Pro 1 ,is good for Hawaiian and western swing.

It is fairly easy to get the slants with the string spacing , they used in those days.

I have 6 pedals and 5 knee levers on mine.

But us old guys that played for years before pedals can just forget the pedals are there, and bring back old memories. On my E6-E9 tuning, it works ok with me.....Happy New Year....al

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