Pros and Beginners

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 22 Dec 2002 2:25 am

Tony; I'm on the ground laughing right now

pal........Good One.
Ricky

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 22 Dec 2002 2:42 am

Taste

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 22 Dec 2002 6:56 am

Peter, you're not supposed to eat it!

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 22 Dec 2002 8:12 am

Jim, what about licks?(groan)

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 22 Dec 2002 8:13 am

tuning up an 0.11 without fear

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Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 22 Dec 2002 8:45 am

I think the hardest thing is just sticking with it even though it takes so long to reach a basic level of proficiency. It just takes a long time for a person of little talent, speaking of myself here, to make much progress. I guess that it would be easier now, when I started, all I had was Winnie Winston's book, there's much more instruction material availiable and it's easier to find.

Rick Ulrich · Post by **Rick Ulrich** » 22 Dec 2002 1:31 pm

The nicest part of steel guitar is when you find yourself out of tune, you just slide your way in tune and everyone thinks you did it on purpose. The hardest part is what Bill Moore said.

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 22 Dec 2002 6:00 pm

Rick,
What do you do when you're playing a three note chord and the middle note is out of tune?

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Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 22 Dec 2002 6:54 pm

Players at all levels. What is the ONE thing you find most difficult in playing pedal steel guitar ???

Other than "sounding good", I have a hard time:

* Explaining to other people why I'd take up a virtually impossible instrument in middle age;
* Explaining to other people exactly what this instument is.

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Jerry Fleming · Post by **Jerry Fleming** » 22 Dec 2002 7:53 pm

I agree Intonation is right at the top of the list. A close second would be not to overplay in my humble opinion.

Happy Holidays,

Jerry Fleming

Ricky0ne1 · Post by **Ricky0ne1** » 23 Dec 2002 12:00 am

Buddy Cage always said the hardest part was learning to operate the volume pedal properly.... after only 20 months of playing, my list of difficult things seems so overwhelming... argh...
Oh, and what Johan said.. first string broke the other day, got 2 nice scabs on my left hand... yowwww[This message was edited by Ricky0ne1 on 23 December 2002 at 12:04 AM.]

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 23 Dec 2002 2:49 am

YEAH All of the above !
Intonation, Volume pedal, Pick Blocking,
Keepin' the Bar Straight, Harmonics,
Nagging Wife, Neighbors and even Friends
it drives me crazy but i love it !
and then after all that i've got to Xplain to people what kind of instument it is...

Merry Merry Christmas