From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Changing Strings

October 19, 2009

I was giving a Pedal Steel Lesson the other day and the student asked about changing the strings on his Pedal Steel Guitar. I instructed him to consider how much he actually used them. If you are playing your steel a few hours a week then your strings should last at lot longer than if [...]

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Live WebCasts

October 11, 2009

We are now streaming a lesson every once in awhile that are geared towards the E9th Pedal Steel Guitar. This instruction is viewed online with Quicktime Player and then the student gets to login and download the video to their hard drive. You can then watch it as often as you wish.
There are currently 10 [...]

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My Set-Up

October 7, 2009

One thing we get to do as steel players is choose our set-up. We get to arrange our pedals and knees the way that makes us the happiest. That is usually still the way they were on your first guitar! I like to think of my Universal Tuning as one big guitar, with huge possibilities. [...]

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Multi Camera DVD’s

October 1, 2009

I ‘ve started creating the coolest teaching aids for learning to play Pedal Steel Guitar. I set-up 7 cameras on one steel and record them all separately. That allows me to move all the shots to one computer where I can edit them together to create DVD’s. These DVD’s have multi-angle set-ups. You learn to [...]

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