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Topic: What was the first Steel Guitar Song you learned? |
Jason Rivet
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Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 8:26 am |
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My first song was What Child is This?
This discussion should help all new players to try easier songs first.
Jason Rivet
Richardson, TX
Last edited by Jason Rivet on 16 Aug 2021 6:51 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Andrew Goulet
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 9:25 am
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I was hacking away on stage before I knew any complete songs, but I think one of the first real ones was Greensleeves or Tennessee Waltz.
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 9:33 am
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In my very first lesson with the great Cal Hand...
...he tried to teach me the Tennessee Waltz. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 10:03 am
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Three cheers for Mansion On The Hill!!!
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Homebuilt keyless U12 7x5, Excel keyless U12 8x8, Williams keyless U12 7x8, Telonics rack and 15" cabs |
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Dale Rottacker
From:
Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Larry Dering
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 1:59 pm
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| For me it was Harbor Lights on lap steel. I still love that tune. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 3:07 pm
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When I got my first steel it coincided with my first exposure to Emmons' 'Wichita Lineman' ('Suite Steel'). I drove down to my old friend, Gerry Hogan, in Newbury and begged him to show me where it lay on my 3+1 set-up. Note by painstaking note, I wrote it in a sort of shorthand tablature (before I knew that tab existed) and I'm delighted to say that I still have that piece of paper.
I learned nothing from that ordeal, however - learning 'by rote' teaches you nothing.
I was already an experienced guitarist and realized pretty quickly that I needed to learn the steel's fretboard and its musical symmetry. Only then, and by using my intuitive sense of 'intervals', was I able to play anything that came into my head. That, for me, was the real 'open sesame'.
Learn your scales and you can play any tune. I'm glad I came to that realization early.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles and Martins - and, at last, a Gibson Super 400!
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 14 Aug 2021 7:32 pm
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Pleading - Pete Drake
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1965 Emmons S-10, 3x5 • Emmons LLIII D-10, 10x12 • JCH D-10, 10x12 • Beard MA-8 • Oahu Tonemaster |
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 2:15 am
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"Steel Guitar Rag".
Bill |
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Chris Templeton
From:
The Green Mountain State
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Marty Broussard
From:
Broussard, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 4:44 am
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Chere Tout-Tout……😂😂….seriously, I first learned Cajun Music and it was on an 8-string Fender that my uncle loaned me. That’s a 2-chord song. The guitar was tuned in open G.
On E9th about a year later I learned Danny Boy…pretty sure it was a Sho-Bud course with a LP record. The tab had slants in it instead of using the E to F lever. Looking back I’m thankful because I like slants better and my guitar didn’t have that lever. I’d have been pretty discouraged without that course because I didn’t know anybody who played E9th…..nor any knowledge of intervals, scales, etc…. Next was the Neil Flanz Sho-Bud LP course with the intros and endings. When I played that Memphis Vamp on the bandstand I thought I’d made the big time….😂😂😂😂
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"Technique is really the elimination of the unnecessary..it is a constant effort to avoid any personal impediment or obstacle to achieve the smooth flow of energy and intent" Yehudi Menuhin |
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Ronnie Boettcher
From:
Brunswick Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 5:49 am
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It has to be "MAKING BELIEVE".
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Sho-Bud LDG, Martin D28, Ome trilogy 5 string banjo, Ibanez 4-string bass, dobro, fiddle, and a tubal cain. Life Member of AFM local 142 |
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Slim Heilpern
From:
Aptos California, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 6:42 am
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The first thing I learned was Buddy's first solo on "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (by ear) off "The Steel Guitar & Dobro Sounds of Shot Jackson & Buddy Emmons". Five and a half years later I still can't play it as smooth as Buddy, but still tryin'....
- Slim
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 7:46 am
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Little Grass Shack, on the Stringmaster E6 tuning.
Red River Valley (Winnie Book) on the Stage One psg |
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Edward Dixon
From:
Crestview Florida
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 8:08 am
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Little Wing. Mar 2021
I learned to play Steel Guitar Rag on my dad's Fender 1000 when I was a kid but learned nothing about PSG. 60 years later I actually bought my own steel and started learning the instrument Feb. of this year. The 1st month I learned chords. When I learned how to make a minor chord (A pedal) I taught my self Little Wing because I already knew the chord progression inside and out. It took about an hour to get the chords right. A month later I found out I could also make minor chords with the B+C pedals I tried that and now I mix 'em up and I'm also using the E-Eb KL. It just keeps getting better with this instrument.
Ed
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Robert Parent
From:
Gillette, WY
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 8:38 am
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It was either I Love You Because or Steel Guitar Rag...
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R Crow
From:
Hectorville, OK USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 8:42 am
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My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
Rick |
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Ron Hogan
From:
Nashville, TN, usa
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 9:50 am
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Ramblin Rose on lap steel.
Easy Lovin on pedals |
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 12:19 pm
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| Mansion on the Hill, from the Bruce Bouton DVD. |
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Scott Appleton
From:
Ashland, Oregon
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 2:25 pm first song
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| steel guitar rag |
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John Peay
From:
Cumming, Georgia USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2021 5:17 pm
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| Amazing Grace |
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manny escobar
From:
portsmouth,r.i. usa
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 4:54 am
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| Back in 1959 I started taking lessons on a lap steel. My instructor made learn an old Roy Rogers song called "The Man in the Moon is a Cowhand". |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 5:45 am
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| I can hardly remember what I had for breakfast this morning. My guess for my first song would be 'Steel guitar Rag'?????? |
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John Palumbo
From:
Lansdale, PA.
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Posted 16 Aug 2021 6:45 am
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| Red River Valley, from Winnie Winston book |
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