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Everyone that wants to play fast or slow starts out copying their heroes (as I did) in my early teens. Most players that learn this way ...

Becoming a good backup musician depends on knowing where the “holes” are located. We either pad or layout until those holes appear.

When I played the 1 & 2 & 7 raise lever and the PF4, many said they were just “lick pedals”. That’s not how I was looking at it, and . . .

The pedal steel often can not invert every chord type like a piano can, so you’ll need to learn as many inversions as you can find.

The secret to finding logical copedents is to understand how chords and single note phrases are created. We do that by having a complete ...

A question about pedal trills and adding quick pedal moves came up on the Facebook Group…

Steelers were never really taught the importance of volume dynamics while it seems like all other instruments are taught to master this ...

When I listen to Buddy Emmons, Robert Randolph, Lloyd Green, Tommy White, Curly Chalker, or other pedal steel guitar legends, I hear . . .

Student: I was taking another look at your diminished chords lesson and I found that I can get another diminished chord option. , , ,