The part where they talk about playing in tune VS being in tune seems to be key with pedal steel.
I find that really listening rather than looking at position or watching a tuner makes a big difference getting it right.
The other thing ...have some hillbilly sensibility when playing. I don't mean that in a negative way, rather that you should try and find that laidback vibe...especially for country music.
I have the "hillbilly sensibility" thing down!
Lol.
Seriously though, I was immersed in steel guitar as far back as I can r3member. My mother was a huge fan of ray price, farron young, Johnny bush, mel tillis, and Merle haggard. Her best friends husband played drums for a Maryland based band called "the Stringdusters". They had a steel player that went on to play with earnest tub and twin fiddle players called the Justice brothers (one of them went on to play with farron young I believe). They were the house band for a club called The Hunters Lodge" in Maryland not to far from DC. The after hours jam sessions there are legendary, with the likes of Wille nelson, earnest tubb, ray pride, haggard and most of the other big names in country music in the late 60s and early 70s. Anyway, I heard steel players upon steel players ...the band practicing,....records of nothing but steel guitar instrumentals, non stop classic country that was saturated in steel. Steel guitar ruled with the crowd my mother hung with and I was raised on that stuff.
I believe if I ever got a steel and figured out what to do with the levers and pedals I would developed pretty quickly because all the licks are internalized in my head already.
Just build one. How hard could it be?I already sold my Les Paul to help my daughter out with college spending money. The only guitar I have that's worth enough to fund a pedal steel purchase is my '66 strat that I bought in 1976. I couldn't part with it man...too much history there.
I have had guys send me parts and I replicated them and made them in the shop and sent them back to the dudes.Just build one. How hard could it be?
this can cause thatThis entire thread is madness and insanity
Can't even begin to get my mind around that shit!this can cause that
Just build one. How hard could it be?
About as hard as building a slot machine from scratch
Leave Scotty out of it...
I should have the track done today.
I recorded a few passes on Tue/Wed....but then left them alone for a couple of days.
I was just getting over-saturated...you know, when you just keep doing it over and over, you reach a point of diminishing returns and it starts sounding worse with each pass instead of better.
Last night I sorted out the recorded passes, and will just do some tweaking today to finish the track.
If you hate my pedal steel offering...then you can call Scotty.