Farewell Party is on the list! There are a few concepts I wanna make videos about first and I’m also trying to work up a simplified arrangement of it too. But it is on my list!

@@pedernalesvalleycountry Can't wait

Do you do any type of facetime or zoom lessons. I am very interested in your teaching concepts. I have been playing the dobro for 10 years. I started playing music at 60. I have been trying to wrap my head around my pedal steel for the last six months or so. I do understand some music theory and can relate to you teaching by understanding the concept behind it. I would be interested in a few lessons just working on the pedal steel and your how music theory may make it easier for me to wrap my head around more quickly. Thanks John

I had to think about that, I don’t have time right now to do lessons but I’m always open to answer any questions as thoroughly as possible.

I’d basically play the same but end it with the bar off on open chords. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5-Zk6SceK2FaNE

I wanna say I bought the bracket from a guy on the forum who makes them, but it may have been my local FB group. It took some modifying to get it on but it’s held for years. I think it was only like $30 or so.

Thanks a lot! Just curious, what would you like to learn more about?

@@pedernalesvalleycountry Your lessons have been so valuable in me really understanding the fret board and how to move so easily between positions. I struggle with the melody any help that you can offer would be wonderful and maybe just a few easy as you can make them licks moving through the different positions that we can move into any key. Anything you post is wonderful though. thank you for asking.

Thanks a lot! My sister encouraged me to make these videos after I made some bass guitar tutorials for her.

Thanks for reaching out. I’m getting to where I will be doing just that, entire songs. I’m going to do Ray Price - I Just Destroyed The World In the meantime contact Jim Palenscar at Steel Guitars of North Country. Ask him about the Buddy Emmons Courses, they teach entire songs. He has the rights to sell them if he still has any. Here is the catalog at Buddys old site. www.buddyemmons.com/courses2.htm

Also, check out this vid I made on the melody of Wild Side Of Life. The melody just repeats throughout with some slight variations m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4WwnqWEn82nm7s Check out this video for inspiration! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJSzgaptf5uVbrM

2 books you must get pk. the first thing I got because it was recommended and were the first a lot of people started with at 1 time . Winnie Winston's PEDAL STEEL GUITAR book and ANTHOLOGY OF PEDAL STEEL by Dewitt Scott. Start there for sure. There are whole songs, scales, info, and Instruction using melodies of Partial Songs. after that I would take a song off youtube everyday with a steel intro or solo up front and easily heard and try to find the notes. It may not start coming to you for a few months, and definitely will frustrate at first but with at least 10m minutes a day and an hour if you got it you will develop your ear and you will know what notes are being played and will learn a song in a couple days front to back. but you need to keep playing those scales so you recognize the notes. then when you hear that A pedal or B OR ANY LEVER OR PEDAL ENGAGE YOU WILL KNOW. THAT'S EVERYBODY can do it. I use to think I couldn't either.

That’s part 2! I’ll also talk about that lever and dominant 7s

Thanks!!

I’ll be making a video soon showing how to use these chords to fake a C6 Western Swing sound