10 Ways to Use Music Drones (And IMPROVE Your Ear)
Finding creative, fun, and effective ways to practice music is a great way to get the most out of practice sessions, and keep you coming back for more…
Pedal Steel Technique: Using the Ring Finger as an Anchor
Accurately switching between string grips, and picking your intended notes can be challenging…but using the ring finger as a positional anchor can tie everything together for the right hand.
Big Sounding Chords for the C6 Neck
Experiment with these chord voicings, and enjoy the benefits of the C6’s frequency range. Read more…
Bluesy Chord Voicings for the C6 Neck
The C6 neck, with its beefy low end – and intuitive, intervallic layout – is a perfect vehicle for voicing chords that can make ears tingle. Read more…
E9 Neck – Major Thirds and Perfect Fourths – 4th & 5th Strings
When playing a tune in a major key, it is often nice to have a bag of tricks for playing over the 1 chord. I often find it useful to play major thirds and perfect fourths, and mix these intervals to create riffs and pleasing tones. In the key of F, these pairs of notes can
Pedal Steel Guitar Instructional Materials (High-Quality and Worthwhile)
Finding instruction, or instructional material for pedal steel guitar can be challenging. Learning the instrument is challenging enough, so there is no reason why one should have to search hard to find quality instructional material. Read more…