https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:18:46 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-190052 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:16:38 +0000 that's how I started.
with open E you have power chords up and down the neck in basically the same position on your
regular guitar.
once you get the feel you can try other tunings.
I like open G.
open D is nice;it has a darker sound.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-190052 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189978 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:12:02 +0000
Ok my number one question is. Where is the best place for me to start learning basics (ie. fingering positions, rolls, chord voicings, which tuning to start with)

I am really excited this is the new burst of excitement my playing needed!]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Flashback https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189978 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189956 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:37:30 +0000 http://www.juneberry78s.com/]]> Slide and Alternate tunings smokindog https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189956 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189935 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:40:30 +0000 well, I discovered Jimmy Rogers. Well, before that, and during Jimmy's time, Hawaiian music was very popular. I think that's the roots of steel guitar in country and western music.

In the '30s, Dobro and National guitars were sold as "Hawaiian" (squareneck for lap style playing) or "Spanish" (roundneck) guitars. Gibson has continued a similar designation to this day, their famous ES series of guitars being named for "Electro-Spanish." Nowadays, we tend to forget how big Hawaiian music used to be, and what an influence it had on later styles.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189935 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189926 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:15:47 +0000
there are other areas too for sales, songs, tabs, etc.
I have learned so much there.
there is alot of info to download and incredible links.

also, some top notch players post experiences and knowledge; sharing what they have readily.
it would be a terrfc site for you to brouse.
use the search function or just scan the threads.

if you want to, post they ask for five dollars. the best five Ive ever spent.

http://www.steelguitarforum.com

also I found on the Fender site a secion called the Players Club. there is a huge amount of info and lessons to download, sound samples, and featured artists with samples of their licks; TABS aare always offered.
I learned a cool Buck Owens lick.

I lost the link , but google Fender or Fender Players Club and you'll get there.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189926 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189912 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:39:47 +0000
I am currently involved in country. it is full of blues. it began when I bought a lap steel. I wanted to know how those harmonized notes were made in Hank Williams sr.
Brads Page of Steel helped.

I went out and bought a best of Hank Sr. then I began to hear thing. I asked questions. where did Hank get his stuff from?
well, I discovered Jimmy Rogers.
then moving forward I listened to tons of country swing beginning in the 30's up to when it began to change in the 50's. there Ray Price and an influence.
then I remembered Buck Owens. his sound furthered country to what we tend to think it is.
Junior Brown is an amazing contemporary player.
he lays a hybrid guitar. it is halp lap steel and half tele. killer stuff.

one thing I did that was terrific was to buy a Fake Book. there is one with hundreds of country westrn tunres. also crossover hits from Elvis, Ray Charles, etc.

one can spend hours with that.

I will look for links and visuals to lap style C&W playing.
so get busy and start researching.
the C&W bins all full of CDS.
use the as a refference if you download iPod or itunes.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings dogbite https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189912 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189897 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:19:24 +0000 Listening is the real key. Listen to as much of it as you can find, and with the internet that's no easy task!
Go to the roots, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams (not jr.), dig deeper at the Library of Congress site.
Play along with the songs being careful not to embelish it with what you already know.
It's the listening that brings it all home.
No amount of tab can bring you that.
These guys just played.

Google "New Grass Revival"]]> Slide and Alternate tunings lanzdona https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189897 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189893 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:38:02 +0000 website, he's a great player and has a lot of good info and instructional material on his site. Good luck! (And beware,- once you're hooked on lap style playing there's no looking back.... :wink: )

Steinar]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Steinar Gregertsen https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189893 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189883 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:25:15 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings smokindog https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189883 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189874 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:06:31 +0000 http://bigroadblues.com/forum/ Most everybody there is a blues player, many are long established pros. Nice helpful, friendly bunch. Pretty heavy on bottleneckers as you might expect, but lots of folks there do some lap sliding too.

Watch out for those harp blowers. They'll accuse you of spanking your plank.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/this-may-sound-silly/#post-189874