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Topic: 10 things at the same time? |
Mike McBride
From:
Indiana
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Posted 21 Feb 2022 8:20 pm |
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| I told my wife that playing PSG requires doing 10 things at the same time involving both hands, both feet and your knees. If you mess up any of the 10 it ends up sounding bad! |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 12:22 am
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Although I'm 70 now I keep up with the trombone as I still get asked to play from time to time. But there are only three things to think about and I find practice boring.
The pedal steel is the instrument that keeps me mentally sharp, and difficult though it is I never get fed up 
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Mike McBride
From:
Indiana
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 4:27 am
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| Ian Rae wrote: |
| The pedal steel is the instrument that keeps me mentally sharp, and difficult though it is I never get fed up |
I've had similar experience with the sax. I also play bass and guitar. I'm just now figuring out the lap steel and VERY casually shopping for a PSG. |
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Andrew Goulet
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 4:36 am
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Your mind is doing another 10 calculations so make that 20!
That's the tough part for me. I can hammer our my 1, 4, 5, 6m chords with AB, AF, etc. without too much difficulty. But the fretboard is like an intricate weave of chords and intervals, and grasping and applying that concept in real time is the real challenge for me.
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Carl Williams
From:
Oklahoma
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 4:51 am
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The Late Great Jeff Newman is credited with the following quote,
“Steel guitar is like playing chess in the dark with three players". 😳😉 |
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Andrew Frost
From:
Toronto, Ontario
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 10:59 am
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| “Steel guitar is like playing chess in the dark with three players". 😳😉 |
Oh man. This is the best thing I've heard all week!  |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 12:40 pm
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That's a humorous way to make a serious point.
The neck of any other guitar is two-dimensional, but a PSG generates a stack of different tunings depending on what pedals or levers are engaged, so what we end up with is a three-dimensional array of possible notes!
3D chess, anyone?
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