The Steel Guitar Forum

Just want to say thanks for all of your hard work in posting tab and audio clips. Your willingness to share your knowledge and experience helps all who use your information to be better steel players. I know you have helped me tremendously.sp?

Greg, me too. Will miss you later this year when you get busy with other stuff.......

Amen!!

Amen II

Greg, I want to say thaks also. I seldom came to Tablature before I found you. I have a lot of different music and can make my own tablature, but you inspire me to get off my fanny and work at it from different directions. I've told you before, I love C6, and can't get enough of it. Your Born to Lose is really the best inspiration I've had in a long time. THANK YOU. Larry

Thanks a ton for all the nice comments. I also have been helped so much by other people on and off this forum. I'll try to keep going till Spring is sprung or I flame and burn out. This Friday I've got an original C6 based tune to post that uses some of the riffs in my latest posts. It sounds great with the subwoofer cranked to bring out the low strings.

It's so easy to get distracted with this instrument. You're working on something you think is really cool and all of a sudden a Buck Owens classic comes on XM. In a flash you drop what you were working on and you just have to go figure out the steel parts. I have a few rock and roll songs and one more blues song in the works but I have no idea how to tab them accurately. There's a bunch of 40's classics and a few pop songs that voice real well on steel so whatever doesn't get finished this year will have to wait for next winter.

Greg

Greg could you post some of the older licks on some of the Buck owens tracks. Thanks for all you do for this forum!!!

Jim Whitaker

I will second, third, etc. that emotion. Giving so much to us in terms of your time, talent, and knowledge means more than you could imagine. A big thanks to you. steve t

I'll agree with everthing that's been said. Great stuff Greg! Your'e a very kind man.

Hi Greg,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the steel. I'm keeping the Sleepwalk clip as a favorite!
sb

Greg, I would also like to add a big thank you for your good work. Your style reminds me a lot of Jeff Newman (I intend that as a really big compliment). Were you a student of his?

I appreciate the moral support! The only seminars I ever attended were the Doug Seymour School of Music and a Herby Wallace C6th seminar back in the early 80's. I'll try to do some more of the Buck Owens stuff. I was going over Lynn Anderson's stuff on Chart (Lloyd) when that Buck Owens song came on and I went off on another tangent. I'm living proof that one way to learn is by rote tab. Eventually it sinks in and you begin to connect the pockets of notes into one big connected scale. At that point you can figure out things on your own even if the steel is not in front of you.

Greg

Greg

I would like to personally thank you for all you have done to help us all and also to thank you for that what you are going to do in the future.

Thanks you so much.....

Like all the others above have stated, you are a very kind person to do all you do to share your knowledge with us. We all owe you a big thank you. God Bless You
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Greg, I must add an additional THANK YOU for your fabulous tips and all the time you put into providing the tabs and tracks. I truly appreciate your willingness to share the valuable information you continually provide.

Greg,

I said thank you before. Let me say it again. THANK YOU.

Chuck

I, too, want to say thanks for sharing you excellent work.

You've helped me along the path of learning this wonderful instrument.

I hope someday I can return the favor.

-Joe Harwell

Thanks to all of you for keeping me interested with so many requests! I am greatly humbled by your remarks and prefer to avoid the spotlight as do most of us. I can't tell you how many times I looked at some really neat tab and wondered how it sounded. The sound files are almost as much work as writing out the tab with all the transferring and format changes. I do think having the sound is more valuable in copying a riff than the musical notation with all the nuances in timing, bar movement and tone in our instrument.

I did get one more song tabbed out and I'll post that tomorrow to wrap this up. Hope to meet many of you in St. Louis this year so check all the name tags you see. I'll be in the crowd along with you!

Greg

Hey Greg......I am printing off all the tab you have posted...after 30 some years on steel I am still finding good stuff here.......we should be in St Louis this year..so please allow me to buy you a beer ...a coffee or a coke.......
..............It will be my Pleasure
Tony

I must have missed it, Greg. Where are you going? I enjoy looking over your tabs. It's a great source of ideas. Nice job!

Ernie and Tony,

Spring is sprunging but I'll post a few tabs here and there. Lots of Yankees baseball to watch and so many other committments to honor in our community. Got enough ideas for a few more books not to mention all the great ideas and riffs that have been sent to me. My problem is it's just too hard to focus in one direction. Doug Seymour sent me a great version of Tangerine and I've been working hard to copy some of the great things he did in that song. While searching for a few augmented parts I stumbled onto a whole new pocket of notes and it was two hours before I got back on Tangerine. Now I can understand why this instrument can make you go bonkers. You forget more riffs than you know. So maybe next year I can figure out how I played some of them by reading my own tab!

Greg

this one single posts is a perfect example of what I like most about "SGF"..........

so many fine folks that will share their ..time...talent...and their heart with others whom most likely they have never met..or may never meet........yet....they share so much...

just fantastic...great...all them other good words.
only been a member for a few months..but...will always be a member as long as I am alive and can afford the fees......

thanks to all you fine pickers who make it possible..
bud

Greg, I read there where you attended a Herby Wallace seminar. Great teacher he is!!

Carroll,

Almost every time I used to hear a great player I always thought he had a secret pedal or some hidden tuning trick. True there is a little of this now and then but most of the basic and even the advanced stuff is now available to all us right here on the Forum.

Kenny,

Back when I took the Herby Wallace seminar in 1982, he was one of the few great teachers that would let you get close to see his technique in a small class setting. Looking back I now realize the incredible time and effort that must have gone into preparing for those seminars. I first saw Herby in the Erie, PA Fieldhouse behind Nat Stuckey and he played for about a half hour before the show just warming up. Blew my mind seeing the range of material he played.

Greg

yeh that guy is a steel tab legend!

really understands the whole concept of simple but effective steel playing whilst also take on the tricky stuff in well written tab form

thanks greg

love the e9th licks