Left Foot Pedal Technique for Pedal Steel Guitar
A lot of pedal steel playing styles and techniques will require the accurate engagement and release of foot pedals…
Right Hand Blocking
With practice, focus, and awareness right hand blocking can quickly become a natural part of your technique…
Stars & Steel Guitars Summer Jam at Long Hollow – 2016
It was a scorching, humid afternoon with a heat index pushing the 100’s (Fahrenheit) at this year’s steel guitar jam at the Long Hollow Jamboree. On the outskirts of Nashville, TN, the hot picking from some of Nashville’s best players didn’t help the temperature. Although this didn’t stop many people from enjoying so much world-class steel guitar
Practice Tips: Improving Your Focus
PRACTICING IN TIMED INTERVALS How long can we truly focus our full attention on something? How long can we practice our instrument before something distracts us, and knocks us out of focus? It can be difficult to focus deeply for more than a few minutes at a time (it’s okay, we’re all human!). However,
BALANCING TECHNIQUE, SCALES, & SONGS DURING PRACTICE
What to practice? Well, there are a lot of variables that can go into this: music genre/type, upcoming gigs, transcribing, goals, etc. Let’s say we’ve got the whole day or week ahead of us, and we have a lot of time to woodshed on our instrument or the pedal steel. Let’s make the most of
Cindy Cashdollar – Tonal Personality
Cindy Cashdollar has a tone that combines the beautiful leaves of an autumn day with the peaceful, serene snowflakes of a winter’s snow. It is timeless, wise, and reflective. Even though she doesn’t play pedal steel often (lap steel is her go-to for steel), her playing represents C6 in a thoughtful way, and every pedal