Recording session ... has this happened to you?

[Webb Kline]

Dan said: There are charts available for about half or a little more of the sessions I play. I rarely look at them because:

1) They are wrong more times than not.
2) My ear is much better than my chart reading ability. It is really, really rare that I have had to look at a chart to figure out a chord.
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That certainly is my experience. But, unlike Dan, my ear not only better than my chart reading ability, but it is also much better than my steel playin'.

I just play within the context of my abilities and do just fine. These days, nobody seldom wants you to play steel parts that are much more than a handful of scale-based fills anyway.

[Jim Hinton]

Howdy Webb:

If you ever come to Arizona, I'd love to take a couple of lessons from you!!

Jim

[Al Carmichael]

I had the privilege to work with some Nashville pros when I was writing songs for a publishing company. We would bring in our home demos of the tunes we wanted to cut, and the band leader (Brent Rowan) sat down and charted each song before the session. He was fast too! Larry Sasser played the steel on those sessions and he was a phenomenal player as well as a superb human being.

If it hadn't been for Jeff Newman's teaching materials, I doubt that I would have learned anything about pedal steel. His stuff taught me so much and showed me so many angles. It really helped me to put things together, being self taught. He was an amazing man.