https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:31:18 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364555 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:26:47 +0000 http://www.well.com/~wellvis/steel.html

here is a wonderful link. tons of good lap steel information.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364555 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364504 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:39:52 +0000 GBDGBD is a tuning I enjoy. it is on my square neck resonator. I believe it is a bluegrass tuning. I find lots of blues on it.
DADGAD is very interesting. Celtic feeling.
on standard six string guitar:
DGDGBD is a favorite of Keith Richards (only he removes the lowest string entirely).
DADGBD is a tuning Neil Young uses. I keep a guitar tuned that way.
the cool thing is if I detune the A to G I have open G tuning.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364504 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364497 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:12:35 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings s1120 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364497 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364489 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:39:34 +0000 http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=78cb9e2b3371a57d3f079762a56f49bd

this is a great link.
when I began lap steel I tuned it to open E. the fret markers will be the same as standard tuning, so you can hit the chords up and down the neck and it won't seem too foreign. my first bar was a Stevens. since, I use a bullet bar by Dunlop.
Rollin and Tumblin was the first song I could play.
the steelguitar forum has helpful links to tuning charts, songs, and tabs.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-364489 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-40906 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:27:08 +0000
Anyone have any ideas for a starting point for learning Lap? Tunings to use, nice starter songs to learn? Im into blues if that matters. Any help would be awesome!!!!]]> Slide and Alternate tunings s1120 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/help-a-newbee-out-learning-lap-steel/#post-40906