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Topic: An update |
Phil Sikes
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Greenbank, WA
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Posted 28 Nov 2004 5:44 pm |
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Well, it's been living here for a few weeks now and me and my MSA U12 are getting along pretty well. I felt like the biggest klutz in the world for the first 2 weeks and then something seemed to click and now it is sounding almost musical. Broke my first string today so I got into changing strings for the first time. I am now up to using 2 pedals and 1 knee and having a ball.
Has there ever been a consensus on how to number/letter the pedals and levers. Sometime I see them as ABC for the first three pedals and other times they are all just 1-8. This is kind of confusing for a new guy trying to learn as I go. I'm still trying to round up a teacher but they are scarce as hens teeth here in the Pacific Northwest.
Best to all and another update when I have the next breakthrough.
Phil
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Dave Grafe
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Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 28 Nov 2004 7:59 pm
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Hi Phil,
There are a few forum folk up in your neck of the woods and at least one or two of them teach, try a message asking if anyone can do so in your neighborhood and I'm sure you'll make some good connections.
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| Has there ever been a consensus on how to number/letter the pedals and levers. Sometime I see them as ABC for the first three pedals and other times they are all just 1-8 |
On a 3 pedal rig they are generally referred to as ABC but I am sure you can translate if necessary bearing in mind that the sequence is left to right from the player's position.
Knee levers are referred to as follows:
Left Knee Left = LKL
Left Knee Right= LKR
Left Knee Vertical (Lift) = LKV
Right Knee Left = RKL
Right Knee Verticle = RKV
RIght Knee Right = RKR
Pretty straighforward. Some pickers have as many as nine levers but by the time you need to worry about that you'll probably have little problem with deciphering the language.
Keep at it, you're stuck with it now....
Dave
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Joe Naylor
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Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2004 7:45 am
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A year ago I bought my first PSG and can not leave it alone. I am lucky, in that there is the Southwest Steel Guitar Association here in the Phoenix area so I met a bunch of great players about a month after I bought mine. I played many many years ago but that was a lap steel. I found that the Texas Music Videoare great. They have beginners 1 and 2 and so on. I found them on the Web but their phone is 900-874-8384 - I have nothing to do with them but just use them - over and over - it starts out with tuning and goes on to blocking and on and on - but I also have several guys that help me out toooooooooo.
Good luck - if you can find a show to go to go - just do not be discurraged by the great players -- simply talk to people - watch - and learn.
That's my opinion.
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Ken Thompson
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Great Falls, Montana, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2004 1:41 pm
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| I call the first two pedals A & B. I call the rest of them "the ones I don't use." |
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