CRYSTALLIZING YOUR INTONATION WITH DRONES A great guitar player friend once told me how he practiced music with drones, or a continuously sounding note. He said it would make a world of difference for my ears, specifically when practicing scale tones. He learned of the idea through Indian classical music, as he was listening to a […]
A lot of pedal steel playing styles and techniques will require the accurate engagement and release of foot pedals…
With practice, focus, and awareness right hand blocking can quickly become a natural part of your technique…
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
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,
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