5 Minute tips for Hawaiian Steel Guitar #1

[Ryan Matzen]

Steve Dawson has started a weekly series of short Hawaiian steel guitar lesson videos on YouTube. Look for a new lesson every Tuesday.

Some folks have been asking me to do a few videos on Hawaiian steel guitar, so I thought I'd maybe try and blast a quick 5 minute one out each week for a while and see if it's of any interest. It's hard to get a point across in 5 minutes, but I'll give it a whirl for a while each Tuesday.

This is the first one, and gives you a little pattern to get under your fingers on the top 2 strings that gets used in lots of classic Hawaiian tunes.

I'm using open G tuning for this (DGDGBD Low to High) but this would also apply to the high-bass tuning, or Dobro tuning (GBDGBD). Enjoy!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQFZCSK17d0