Made famous by the legendary Jerry Byrd, the C6 tuning [CEGACE] for the non- pedal lap steel guitar has many advantages due to its versatility. The tuning isespecially useful in playing two and three-string chord combinations and for easy single-string passages. Patience, dedication and many hours of practice areneeded to perfect the "slant" bar positions, especially the reverse slants, but the end result is well worth the effort. This excellent text, written by Steel Guitarand Country Music Hall of Fame member DeWitt Scott, is written in standard notation and tablature. Audio download available online.

Made famous by the legendary Jerry Byrd, the C6 tuning [CEGACE] for the non- pedal lap steel guitar has many advantages due to its versatility. The tuning isespecially useful in playing two and three-string chord combinations and for easy single-string passages. Patience, dedication and many hours of practice areneeded to perfect the slant bar positions, especially the reverse slants, but the end result is well worth the effort. This excellent text, written by Steel Guitarand Country Music Hall of Fame member DeWitt Scott, is written in standard notation and tablature

Now complete in one volume, this time-honored method addresses the six-string lap steel guitar in E7 tuning.This approach incorporates both note reading and melodychord playing. The melody chord approach is the one utilized and made famous by New Orleans' great guitarist and teacher, Roger Filiberto. This book contitutes one of the most practical, well-written methods available for the lap steel guitar; it teaches techniques and chord harmony applicable to Hawaiian, bottleneck/slide and even resonator styles.

First Lessons Lap Steel is a fun and easy approach to learning the lap steel guitar. Author Jay Leach explains the basics of the instrument including bar control, picking, and string groups, with fun exercises to play. This book also includes several catchy tunes and an accompanying CD with play-along tracks.

This is the standard-bearer for pedal steel instruction books. It is extremely comprehensive in scope. Written by DeWitt Scott, founder of the International Pedal Steel Guitar Convention and member of the Pedal Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, this course teaches E9 tuning, Nashville set-up pedal steel with three floor and three knee levers. If you want to learn pedal steel, this book will show you how. the accompanying CD is in split-track format, allowing the student to play with the rhythm accompaniment, the pedal-steel solo parts, or both.

This is the first Charango method to use conventional musical notation, and the only bilingual (Spanish and English) text of its kind. These characteristics make the method attractive to musicians with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, interests and skill levels.The method is comprised of two parts: A first section regarding strumming techniques and a second section regarding melodic plucking techniques. the first section provides a clear and precise method for learning the rasgueo repique and tremolo skills central to the Charango repertoire. the second section, meanwhile, provides an indispensible guide to expressive techniques for embellishing melodic lines including hammer-ons and pull-offs, trills, simultaneous melodies and arpeggios.The method is appropriate for a wide range of musical skill levels, from beginners to accomplished Charanguists who want to improve their technical chops. Exercises are clear and progressive. In the event that the student is not familiar with music theory, an appendix clarifies the basics of musical notation. In addition to 201 written exercises for the Charango solo, the method includes 23 South American folk music classics arranged for Charango and guitar accompaniment. It thus serves as both a pedagogical tool and a source of performance repertoire. the musical scores included in the method are accompanied by a CD of recorded exercises and a free audio download of repertoire played by recognized Chilean instrumentalists.