Lesson 1: How to quickly begin playing pedal steel with your friends - Major Chords

[@AlienHazard]

This is excellent 👌🏻 thank you.

[@headwhop26]

This is great content, please keep posting. Im a guitar player making the transition to steel and this is very helpful

[@JohnnyD683]

Just learning the pedal steel and your site is great.

[@derbyd10]

On any fret you can find the 1, 1maj7, 2m, 3m, 4, 5dom7, 6m, and more.

[@jimtrantham1195]

Absolutely awesome. Thank you.

[@brianbarrett4192]

You must be from around Fredericksburg or Johnson City using the name Pedernales. The river starts about 2 miles southeast my hometown near the Tivydale Road. I now live in Washington State and have a couple of Sierra 12 string universals.

[@pkweaglew]

Greetings. I'm a new player and struggling. I have learned to play the 1 4 5 series in four different locations on the fret board. I get it. I have also learned two independent scales. I am sure I have the musical theory in place to follow along. I cant seem to find anyone that teaches actual songs. I purchased a superb early learning tool from a very accomplished player... however no songs. 1 4 5 and licks to no end....but no songs. I play the guitar and dobro. I am very surprised I am having this level of difficulty. Any chance you could direct me to where actual entry level songs are offered for instruction?

[@pedernalesvalleycountry]

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

[@pedernalesvalleycountry]

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

[@chrissims6289]

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.

[@dobroresolover8900]

excellent

[@derbyd10]

Best practice is to refer to a lever by what it does, not by its physical location.