As you'll see, the big time steel players aren't going to worry about me taking their jobs, but I thought some of you might find it interesting to hear a local wannabe steel guitarist.

Just remember...it was done live, so the mistakes are all there, and I'll admit to overplaying, but the leader of the group said since there were no other leads, to put in something... so I did. lol

On the positive side...they did have the steel out front in the mix!!!

Any comments, pro or con are welcome.
http://www.w39cd.com/medley.wmv

Great Steel playing, well above the "wannabe" level!!

Keep On Pickin', Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

Great sounding Emmons ya got there boy'...

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"there's been an awful murder, down on music row!"

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If you play 'em, play 'em good!
If you build 'em, build 'em good!

FRED and Pat

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The spirit be with you!
If it aint got a steel, it aint real

We don't have anything for sale at the moment, but we're talking about doing a CD in the hopefully not too distant future.

The only thing we're currently doing is the TV program, which is Sunday evenings at 5:30 central time. It's on the Christian station that I work at, and you can watch everything we broadcast online at http://www.w39cd.com For the live TV station programming, you'll need the realone player. The free version works fine.

Thanks again, because coming from fellow steel guitarists, it really means A LOT!!!

You were much more exposed than normal as the only soloist on several songs. You stood up to that challenge well.
Great tone and generally fine excution of your ideas.
Expecially considering that you had to come up with so many more than usual in the same time frame, since two players were missing.

You are a bold man to post your playing for all to hear and see, and should be proud of your performance. Really nice backup work in the country style as others have said. Your intonation and tone are really great, and you don't have volume pedal-itis or vibrato-itis either, which is excellent. One minor thing I noticed (and this may be due to some sort of time warpage in Internet land) is what a teacher of mine called a timing problem, i.e. getting the right hand to nail the notes you want in "time". I practice scales, etc. with a metronome and it makes all the difference in the world for me.

I only mention this because in all other respects, your playing was great, to be sure far above wannabe status. I hope I have not offended you or anyone else by my observation. Thanks a lot for sharing your playing with us.

Gerald, I am not offended at all. That's one of the reasons I posted the link here, was to get feedback from fellow steel guitarists. Believe me, I certainly realize that I stand in need of improvement. I have been trying to play steel for several years now, but have REALLY gotten out of practice in the past few years.

I have not played steady with a band for a long time now...mostly just playing the steel at home without any backup tracks, etc... and I realize that has probably hurt my timing some. I appreciate you pointing that fact out.

In fact, if any of you other guys care to share your observations on what you think are areas that really need improvement, feel free to say so. I'm all for improving my steel playing, and I realize that an impartial observer can be a good thing.

Nick

[This message was edited by Nick Reed on 09 January 2004 at 11:28 PM.]

If any of you guys get a chance, tune us in "live" Sunday afternoon at 1:00pm Central time at http://www.w39cd.com Nothing quite like "live" TV to really showcase one's mistakes! lol After you listen to more of my train wrecks, just think how much better you'll feel about your own playing!!

Thanks again to everyone who has posted.

Lem

[This message was edited by Lem Smith on 24 April 2004 at 03:05 AM.]

Also BiaB will allow you to create your own chord patterns with rythm section so you can work out new ways to get from A to B and on to C all with good rhythm.
As well as focus on trouble spots.

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"Life is too short for bad tone".

Hopefully I'll be able to upload a couple or so clips before too long of some songs I actually practiced on a bit...hopefully they won't have as many goofs in 'em!

David, I'll look into the Band in a box idea.
Thanks for the heads up on it.