The best video for the bucks?

Savell · From: Slocomb, AL

What is the best instructional video available for learning good accompliment licks on the pedal steel?

After many hours (every day for 6 months) practicing scales, chords, and timing I am fortunate enough to have been asked to join a local gospel band. I can muster a few common intros and even get an "atta boy" every now and then on the solos they throw my way. But I need to learn some real pretty accompliment licks to back up the singers. I can hear what I want to play in my head, but it takes a night or two of practice before we play again for me to get it even close to good enough.

I'm not completely sold on the tab thing. Stuff I learn in a tab always seem too stiff for the feel of the song. It's like I'm better off just going with my heart. It may not be as pretty, but it comes off a lot smoother and more accurate.

Is there such a video that can help me stock up on some useful licks that I can fit into the several opportunities throughout a night of playing?

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Savell Norsworthy
Fessenden SD10 / Nashville 400
Savell Ministries

Reggie Duncan · From: Mississippi

Come up and spend a couple days with me. I would love to have you and we can swap licks.

David L. Donald · From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand

Well you can't knock a great invitation like that!

Good on you Reggie, I am sure you will push him up to an higher level.

Savel, if you can get an inexpensive audio editing program on your computer,
you can take the licks you like from CD's, loop them in small sections,
and learn them bit by bit from your favorite player's recordings.

This can be very effective and well worth the money for an inexpensive program.

Even if you only look at 1 or 2 measures looped at a time, you can learn that little section, and you will also get the FEEL of how it's played.
And you are ahead of the game.

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 08 May 2004 at 02:20 AM.]

Larry Jamieson · From: Walton, NY USA

Texas
Music and Video has two videos out by Wally Moyers. One is greatest steel licks of the sixties, and another is greatest steel licks of 1965 to 1970. I have not seen either of these videos, but they might help. Has anyone seen these? Larry Jamieson.

Lincoln Goertzen · From: Taylor, British Columbia, Canada

I haven't seen the two you mentioned, Larry, but I have seen his C6th video, as well as Professional Backup Licks for Steel. Neither was worth it. He may be a fine player, and I think he is, but a teacher he is not. He spends too much time noddling with his guitar ("...and you can do something like this, or something like this...")

Please don't get me wrong, I would never give a bad report without a basis. I have just been disappointed in these two, and I would not get any of his other videos.

Lincoln

C Dixon · From: Duluth, GA USA

Reggie,

If I thought that would work in my case, I would be there yesterday. And I would not let go until I had it down pat! Sadly, the notes you play are simply NOT on my steel. Never have been, never will be

Yours comes straight from heaven. You are truly blessed dear friend. May Jesus continue to nurture your awesome musical talents,

carl

Dylan Schorer · From: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

You should check out the late great Jeff Newman's "Up From The Top" videos. They feature dozens of simple licks presented in the context of fills in between vocal lines. He also has a two part series called "Bandstand Backup" that covers the Nashville approach to playing behind a singer. Check them out at www.jeffran.com.

The videos may be pricier than others, but they are packed with great, coherently-described material that you can immedidately apply at gigs. There's a good reason that Jeff is regarded as greatest steel guitar instructor.

Reggie Duncan · From: Mississippi

Carl there are a lot of notes on my guitar I am trying to get off. Oh, by the way, I will be in Valley, AL producing some trax for a quartet. How far are you from there?

[This message was edited by Reggie Duncan on 12 May 2004 at 01:32 PM.]

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