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One of you California steel guitarists of that era, or one of your colleagues, came to Jackson Wyoming as part of Larry Booth's band in 1978 or 1979, and spent an afternoon visiting with me at my pla ...

Nice going!

Red Rhodes

Same here, watching him on Cal's Corral, Sunday afternoons in what year - 1965?

After a few years on the Forum I felt more and more insignificant and decided in view of this I would just give up on the Forum, Steel guitar and do things that I enjoyed!

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Very nice set, good playing all around, the sound is easy on the ears, the tune selections are nice. Where do I ever hear In a Mellow Tone or I Can't Give You Anything But Love, let alone on steel gu ...

Bud Carter played a modified version of Bb6 because of a problem rotating left foot. That may very well be one of his old guitars,,,last one I saw that he had was black.

That's interesting - if th ...

Much of it (maybe all) could make sense as a Bb6 tuning. For example, if the changes on V and RKL are all half steps, those are standard Maurice Anderson Bb6 knee levers. Same with LKR, at least the ...

Lotsa nice stuff going on there! Very well done - thanks for posting it.

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My music back ground is classically trained piano (some horns, no guitar). I read music (weak on chords but studying) and am constantly translating the tabulature in these books to piano keyboard in ...

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Me too!

Thanks for the reply so fast , take this song (take these chains from my heart) e g c c d e g f e d according to what im thinking here is that to make this melody into traids you would use the c ...

Much in-depth information on modes and practically every other musical topic is available (free) on Rick Beato's YouTube site. He's done a video on each of the usual modes, and some I've never heard ...

Unfortunately, by the time the hearing loss/tinnitus sets in at a noticeable level, it's already irreversible, although not too late to protect what what you still have left.

The fact that I've nev ...

anyone here over 50 able to make any progress with fast staccato picking . . . . ?

Yes. At age 60 I started playing steel again after a 28-year break. This time I switched from palm blocking to ...

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Thinking of P5 and P6 as making a diminished 7th chord on strings 3 to 8, P7 provides harmonic color tones or melodic tones that can be used with the diminished chord, much as P7 is used with the no-p ...

I hear a VIaug7 and see his left thigh move up and down again. Then the II13.

Yes. Up three frets (not two) from the no-pedal position with the 5th string lowered a half step gives the VIaug7 on ...

Two together at the most. And that is exactly how I would start using an exercise schedule like this.

I agree - that's the kind of approach I would take, and have taken. As Jim Palenscar explained ...

Does anyone here have any good rhythm exercises?

Yes, below are some rhythmic phrases that you can use in practicing scales and arpeggios, to learn to shift back and forth between triplets and stra ...

What I'd like is to be able to "internalize" all the different rhythm combinations that exist . . .

My suggestion: Get a copy of Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer (under $10 via Amazon) ...

Just a few days ago my wife and I were talking about Homer Simon. This is sad news indeed. Sad

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