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Ha ha. I don’t think I ever really “learned” one!!! I can hunt and peck my way through lots of tunes, but I would flame out at a steel guitar show…

Broken down in tiny pieces

"I think it's gonna work out fine" by Jerry Douglas. I copped it (sorry of)figured it out in a simple way by ear in open A on a Gibson EH-150.

Honky Tonk Angels, from the old Sho-Bud instruction book with a young Jeff Newman on the cover.

"I think it's gonna work out fine" by Jerry Douglas. I figured it out in a simple way by ear in open A on a Gibson EH-150.

On C6 lap steel I first learned "I'm so lonesome, I could cry." When I purchased my first pedal steel I learned "How great Thou art" from standard notation from a hymnal.

Steel guitar rag

Farewell party.I had one vinyl wrapped Mavericks back on 79. I listened Lloyd Green pick it and made look so easy for a beginner such as I.

the Steel Guitar Rag

About 1939,-I was 8 years old. First song played was "Nearer My God to Thee" Single sheet of music in the diagram method.

Just saw this older post.
My first 3 professional arrangements by Oahu Music in 1947-48. Have I told You Lately That I Love You, Harbor Lights, and steel Guitar Rag.
I played these at a school function, I was 7 years old at the time.
On pedal steel my first was Sleepwalk.

Danny Boy

Quinton's Theme......from the tv show Dark Shadows
wife hums it as a lullabye fro the great grand kids

Sleep walk on 6 string then 1 0 string shobud maverick 3-1 out of tune

Born to Lose arranged by Mr. Billy Cooper

Samuel Phillippe wrote:Quinton's Theme......from the tv show Dark Shadows
wife hums it as a lullabye fro the great grand kids

Those kids are gonna be messed up in a really good way.

Fred Treece wrote:

Samuel Phillippe wrote:Quinton's Theme......from the tv show Dark Shadows
wife hums it as a lullabye fro the great grand kids

Those kids are gonna be messed up in a really good way.

LOL, and they are.

Sam

When I first got my pedal steel in 1974, it was near Christmas, so, I taught myself to play Silver Bells. It seemed to fit perfectly to the E9th tuning. I had no access to any pro tutoring, so, I had to learn everything myself.

A Fool such as I.

I can recall my first 3 but not the order. Steel guitar Rag. Somewhere My Love. Rose Garden. I think I found tab on in scattered on steel guitarist personal pages on the Interwebs circa 2000.

Summer Clouds from Lloyd Green's Shades of Steel.

The Byrds' "You Ain't goin' Nowhere" with Lloyd Green playing steel (by ear on my first pedal steel, a POS black Tolex-covered Fender S10 student model - probably the most cheaply-constructed version of the ShoBud Maverick.

Made me quit pedal steel for about 15 years!

This one-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9G0emfp87E

I think I learned major and minor chords first before I learned any songs per se', and then just doodled around to the country rock songs of the day,, but this one is the one that got me down to hard core, big time sheddin'... I could play it after only playing a few days. I could play it acceptably well after about 10 years. bob

On Top of Old Smokey
from the Sho-Bud(?) book with Jeff Newman on the cover. First one I really figured out was Teach Your Children

Bud's Bounce on a D-8 Fender with a changer that bolted onto the end of the guitar(raise only). A and B pedals. No rollers and broke a string every day. Caveman's guitar.