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Dynamic Phrasing
Paul Franklin
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 ...
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Backing A Singer
Paul Franklin
Becoming a good backup musician depends on knowing where the “holes” are located. We either pad or layout until those holes appear.
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Change Is Good
Paul Franklin
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 . . .
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Musician’s Honey-Do
Paul Franklin
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.
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Copedent Coping
Paul Franklin
The secret to finding logical copedents is to understand how chords and single note phrases are created. We do that by having a complete ...
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Pedal Toning
Paul Franklin
A question about pedal trills and adding quick pedal moves came up on the Facebook Group…
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Improve Your Swing
Paul Franklin
Steelers were never really taught the importance of volume dynamics while it seems like all other instruments are taught to master this ...
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Eternal Beginner
Paul Franklin
When I listen to Buddy Emmons, Robert Randolph, Lloyd Green, Tommy White, Curly Chalker, or other pedal steel guitar legends, I hear . . .
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Diminished Chords
Paul Franklin
Student: I was taking another look at your diminished chords lesson and I found that I can get another diminished chord option. , , ,
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