How and where do you practice?

Dom Franco · From: Beaverton, OR, 97007

My favorite way to practice is jamming with YOUTUBE and a cup of coffee in the early morning.

Un-plugged with the laptop volume low, the unamplified steel is loud enough just resonating through the oak kitchen table.

This way I don't wake up the whole house, it's quick and easy (no wires, no mess)

Dom
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Mike Neer · From: NJ

I built my own studio in the basement, so I can play away at all hours. My steel sits right in front of my amp.

I like to have some free play time, then I spend time building right and left hand chops, working on new ideas, playing along with drum loops, experimenting with sounds. I might even sneak a standard in there. This is usually how every practice session goes.

I also like to do some transcribing at least once or twice a week
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Alan Brookes · From: Brummy living in Southern California

I have a pedal steel in front of my armchair, and I jam along with whatever comes on TV.

Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

I started out keeping my "stuff" in a rather large walk in closet. I used this until me wife got into the habit of walking by and turning down my amp. It wasn't long until I added a loft over the garage and moved everyting to that location. The only thing is, it's getting harder and harder to lug the pedal steels and amps up and down the stairs. Whoa!

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

For practice I usually patch into the computer and monitor through a small pair of powered speakers. Or I play through a small tube amp, a 59 Fender Deluxe. I seldom play through my bigger amps at home. I usually play to BIAB tracks or Youtube karaoke tracks or jam tracks, or sometimes just to a click. I usually work on songs that one of my bands is doing or some steel instrumental that I want to work up or record.
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Jerome Hawkes · From: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA

i'm finding my best, most enjoyable practice time is right before bed - maybe 30-40 mins. i have a little Yamaha THD portable amp and my Ric B6 - keep it simple.

i do have my full set up (console steel/imac/recording interface) in my little music room but its harder to get into it for some reason. i spent all this time and money renovating a place to play and i find just sitting in the chair with my B6 the most enjoyable.
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David Matzenik · From: Cairns, on the Coral Sea

I practice in the living room of our modest bungalow. Usually with an amp but I also work over some things without the amp or use a Tricone. I like to start with some work on Mike Neer’s tetra chord theory but some days I slack off.
I try to keep up a repertoire of 20 to 25 Hawaiian era arrangements which I transcribe using Tux Guitar, and I always have a new one waiting in the wings. That may seem like a narrow interest. However, I don’t have enough years left to spread myself too thinly. And I still listen to almost any genre.

P.S. I keep threatening to dust off my fiddle too.
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Earnest Bovine · From: Los Angeles CA USA

Open One Thousand Fiddle Tunes at random and play a couple of pages, work on a Bach solo fiddle or cello suite, then try to find a short piece written by a composer born around 1860 that will fit on the steel.

David Matzenik · From: Cairns, on the Coral Sea

Dom Franco · From: Beaverton, OR, 97007

I have a nice soundproof studio to rehearse in, but it resides in some strange time vortex. If I go in there to rehearse a little while I get sucked in to the Twilight Zone and 8 hours has passed before I know it... I end up with a Drum, Bass, Guitar and Keyboard track and a minimal amount of steel guitar practice!

Dom
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Ken Campbell · From: Ferndale, Montana

[quote="Dom Franco"]I have a nice soundproof studio to rehearse in, but it resides in some strange time vortex. If I go in there to rehearse a little while I get sucked in to the Twilight Zone and 8 hours has passed before I know it... I end up with a Drum, Bass, Guitar and Keyboard track and a minimal amount of steel guitar practice!

Dom[/quote]

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Mike Neer · From: NJ

Here is about 60% of my humble space. I built double walls spaced one foot apart and used Z strips for the ceiling to mount to the beams. The second pic is my little workbench/library/closet area.

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