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Besides Winnie Winston,s book, which is usually everyone,s first book, which pedal steel book/course helped you the most? Thanks.

I really enjoyed the Missing Link by Reese
Anderson. The overlays & Exerise maps was a fun course. And of course All of Jeff's material are very good.

Dewitt Scotts Anthology of Pedal Steel Guitar by Mel Bay.

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Herby Wallace had ( maybe still does) a book that gave me some great ideas. I especially liked his C6 book. Other than that I would have to say the most impact ever was Paul Franklin's pick blocking tape. It totally changed my way of playing.
Dave

Jeff Newmans " Up from the top " series.

Buddy Emmons E9 instruction

Jeff Newmans "C6th and Swingin'!".

When I started on pedal steel I felt like a duck out of water until I got my hands on some of Scotty's stuff published by Mel Bay. It really answered a lot of questions for me. The best thing ever published is Scotty's "Pedal Steel Guitar Chord Chart". I paid $1.50 for mine.
Erv

Joe Wright's basic stuff.

It builds a strong foundation on which you build everything else.

When I went to Pedal Steel, I got the original 1 volume Sho-Bud Instruction Book and Neil Flanz's LP with licks.

Neil Flanz and then Bobbe Seymour!

like many, i started out w: Winnies's book
it did me right
since i got a D10 and discovered C6, i'll say that Buddy's courses & tabs done did it fer me
oh yeah and Jim Loessberg's courses are darn good too

Jeff's "Wood Shed" tapes, and all his other stuff.

Mel Bays Deluxe Pedal Steel Guitar Method by DeWitt Scott.

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The Lone Prairie Steeler Pat

Instructional videos by "Steve Palousek". Ordered them from Emmons Guitar Company a few years ago. They've been a tremendous help to me.

I am working on C6 now and what has worked for me is:

Jeff Newman - C6 workshop to get started quickly and get the feel of the guitar and chord grips.

Buddy Emmons Basic C6 - for good theory.

Jim Loessberg - for some great jazz standards tab and audio.

The combination of these three has worked for me and I am playing the song "Watch What Happens". I love jazz but this old country/rock/bluegrass boy always thought it was too sofisticated for my brain. I played the heck out of it today and I am amazed! This much fun is probably illegal !

Terry

without a doubt, it was Jeff Newman's Universal B6th course. I had Winnie's book which was the first for me. I guess I was at the level that when I got Newman's B6th course, it just pushed me up three levels on the 6th end of playing. I've gone on to Herby Wallace's c6th books and buddy Emmons but it was Jeff that got me going. Thank you Jeff. Larry

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I've got a lot of mileage out of Hal Rugg and Weldon Myrick's Amazing Pick Blocking / Speed picking course, as well as Mike Smith's Advanced E9 instructional cassettes.
Another great source of information and instructional material I like is "Pedal Steel Guitar a manual of style", compliled by Winnie Winston.

Thanks for those nice words about my inbstructional stuff!

Russ Weaver has a great tape for "At E's". I got that tape when I was about nineteen and trying to learn C6th (I'm still learning). I don't think I could have learned that tune without the tape.

Paul Franklin has some great stuff. A friend has Paul's tape for a solo on "Secret Love" and one for the head of "Stompin' at the Savoy". I listened to them and think they would be good choices for players wanting to learn C6th.

My dad had the Buddy Emmons record, with tab, where he plays the Ray Price tunes. I liked that a lot, too.

And Jimmy Day had some great tab for many of his instrumentals including "Farewell Party" and "Danny Boy". I assume they are still available from Marilyn. I recommend those highly for E9th players.

Best wishes,

Jim<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jim Loessberg on 31 January 2005 at 12:45 AM.]</p></FONT>

The first thing I bought was the book by Winnie Winston. Then I went to my first convention in St. Louis in 1981. There I bought the Buddy Emmons course where he played the Ray Price tunes. After that I have bought products from Herby Wallace and have a couple Jeff Newman videos. On C6th the Tommy Roots videos have been a tremendous help. There is so much on the market today and I believe that is why we can see players learning at a faster speed, especially those that are young.

Up from the Top and the Down Yonder...Down Yonder is go down yonder to the music room and pick, and pick and pick.

Mike Richardson

- The Missining link (by Maurice Anderson).
- Jeff Newman's later videos.

Beware of tablature!

... J-D.

I just took Doug Jernigan course just before the Southwest Steel Guitar Show - it could not have been better. Not only a good course a lot to work on for the future. I think Doug's course will be taking over the best as soon as everyone finds out about it.

I do not have all the rest but this one is great.

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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix)Desert Rose Guitar, Southwest Steel Guitar Association, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Association

I agree with Larry, Erv and Patrick, Dewitt Scott`s Deluxe Pedal Steel course is the best resource, IMO, for a beginner to get started, Jim

I wish I could have started out with something like Jeff Newman's Up From the Top series, but it wasn't available- luckily Winnie's book had just come out when I started and I can't rave enough about what a help it was. There've always been debates about the relative merits of tablature and courses, but I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to anyone who takes the time and effort to make instructional materials available. Anything that helps on the quest is a wonderful thing!

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