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Topic: What is the best way to learn single string playing ?? |
Gary Hoetker
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California, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2018 5:06 pm |
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 9 Mar 2018 7:47 pm
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Practice scales. Look at the scale exercises regular guitar players use, and adapt them to the steel. Single note playing is all just bits and pieces of scales.
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 10 Mar 2018 1:07 am
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start slow, with simple phrases, no different than guitar or piano etc..
if you can't play slow, you can't play fast.
Pay close attention to individual string "TONE" and sustain. This is where your right hand becomes a vital tool.
everything matters, right hand, picks, bar and pedal movements...
Too many times we are trying to play a piece, be it by ear or TAB , at the same meter as the recording.
As a guitar player from way back, I played boring scales over and over in several positions. They are rudiments like a snare drummer. Muscle conditioning. It's not necessarily about the notes but rather how to execute the notes. I still play scales now and then which is an immediate reminder that I should have been playing them faithfully over the last many decades. It shows !
We don't do this hours each day unless of course we are concert performers at Carnegie Hall, but rather 5 min a day , or at least regularly.
As Reece used to say, Perfect Practice ! 
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2018 8:56 am
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Not just scales- arpeggios. Being set up to play diatonic chord structures, the steel tuning is loaded with accessible arpeggios at every turn. I can’t understand why more players don’t use them extensively in improvising.
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 12 Mar 2018 12:40 pm
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| Practice without using your pedals... even on E9. Learn what the intervals are on adjacent strings. |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 13 Mar 2018 5:05 am
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| Use a metronome! |
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Jim Fogarty
From:
Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2018 11:07 am
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Learn chordal playing......but only pick one note at a time!
(That's only partially a smart-ass joke!)  |
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