The Steel Guitar Forum

Fellow Forumites,

It is with great embarrassment,and disapointment in myself, that I fill you in on my situation.....I have neglected my P.S.G. for the last year without even looking at it( in the case in the closet)..after deciding to live "ALONE" again and moving to my new digs...I finally have everything set up and have turned my living room into the MUSIC room and set it up only to find I forgot which legs went where....Leaving the pedals very high off the floor.... .... then after a thorough cleaning and polishing, forgot the standard tuning notes and had to refresh them in my mind.. ..as God is my witness, gang, this will never happen again...( I can hardly wait to see how rusty I really am) My apologies to everyone here....so let me have it....
Now I will go and crawl under my guitar and re-learn it

Bad,bad,bad boy..Now sit up straight and keep your elbows off the table.And no desert.

Now I will go and crawl under my guitar and re-learn it

You will do a lot better picking it from above the guitar.

See?--it'll all come back to you. Good thing we are here to help.

Dale, you and I are in the same boat then...I quit mine in the late 80's. What a waste!! I can't wait to get my new one done and working and, like you, figure out how much I have forgotten. But let's not be too rough on ourselves. Steel is in our veins and the main thing is that we pick it up again at some point in our lives. Hey, maybe our paths will cross and we can get together and learn from each other!
Good luck man!
Bent

OIL OIL OIL!!!

There's no place like home,

There's no place like home...

What tuning notes can you get from a touch tone phone?

Dale, without a doubt, you are of the lowest form of life and should have to live on bread and water as well as Jenny's Ward Possum stew for at least six months. Now soak the rust off your picks and get back to it. Sorry but you asked for it.

Enjoy

Hey, Dale, welcome back to our favorite club; Do exactly as we taught you; and you'll be pickin' that rusty old steel, in no time flat. Better yet, instead of using the rusty machine; buy one of Doug Earnst's Stageone S-10's and start fresh with a beautiful little steel; can't beat it for $ 895.00; three pedals and four knee levers. For Doug's address, send me an E Mail. Good luck with your endeavors..Bernie

Dale, just remember that the intro to all country songs is "How Dry I Am". Piece of cake from there on.....

Welcome back Dale ....;No Regrets

Dale,

I can only hope you are not playing a BLACK PUSH PULL. If so that would be BLASPHEMY. Please man get a grip. Practice,practice, practice !! Please get out from under the guitar. Let us all know your progress

After playing two or three years in the '70s, I started up again when I got divorced a few years back and suddenly had some freedom. I should have never quit, but eventually it all came back, and I have progressed far beyond where I was 25 years ago. This Forum is your best friend. Reading it and learning from the community is part of the process of coming back. Read a little and practice a little. It's all good.

There is some good advice for you here :-
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If you never put your guitar away, you never have to get it back out again either.*


*(This applies to tools also & a great many other things; you can tell your wife I said so. Oh wait, you're living ALONE again; all the better )

I am waiting for a RKR, and am having withdrawls.

As said above just start picking,
and you will be back on the horse.
Trot this week cantor next,
and full gallop in the fall.

I haven't played for months, although I collect tablature for when I'm motivated again, but I chalk it up to the stress of taking care of my wife. She has undergone several surgeries over a year, but is making good progress now. It has been a rocky road, one that I never anticipated, but I prefer the nursing job myself, I love her so much. I will get going again at some point.

I went through almost the same thing. got divorced and moved to Austin from DFW in 2004. I had no motivation to play. Then in 2006, just when I was starting to play again, an unexpected surgery changed all that. I finally set it up again last month and I am so glad I did.

Hey Charles,
I can identify with you. I know the stress and strain that goes with being a caregiver. My wife nearly died a few years ago from what was supposed to be an overnight out-patient procedure. A classic case of medical stupidity. Two months in a coma, three months in the hospital, and a year of physical therepy, and suffered permanent disabilities. My playing virtually stopped while I cared for her. I lift you up in prayer my brother.
LW

PS: Get back to pickin' as soon as you can.

i had to stop for 2 weeks while working on my music room i now wiggle in 10 minutes of prastice EVERY day. i think i would go crazy if i had to go for a month with no stee. get on that baby and feel it respond to you
jerry

I can feel for you, health problems and all. I had to quit for 15 years while playing Trombone in the church band, it was not easy getting back but am trying. It is not easy but keep at it and it will come back. After a car wreck and a fall of 12 feet from a tree and things get even harder, if I can do it you can to. It is also bad when your limbs move and you do not tell them to. Hope you see my point, go for it.


ernnie

Some times your physical health makes
the inventiveness slowly fade.

Be it diminished mental acuity,

diminished physical function,

or just pure fatigue.

The notes may stop coming as often
and as many in the 1st case

The notes may not come when called
or just too randomly to give the old joy,
in the middle case.

Or in the last you are just incapable of
pulling your self up for another try.

It of course can ALSO BE TEMPORARY...

Creativity and good health are usually
directly linked.
Rare is the case of a Steven Hawking
who's creativity was so totally cerebral,
that laking physical powerrs at all free'd
his mind to wander the cosmos mathimaticaly.

Everyone also has musical droughts.
This seems like the tail end of one of those.

Like an artist, some times you just put down
the brush and think of other things.
You may not paint as fast when you start up again,
but eventually hit stride in an different direction.