Steel Guitar Bar Slants

Intro turnaround ending that you normally play try playing it with a bar slant or reverse bar where you normally use a pedal or knee lever.

Steel guitar bar slants. Hello and welcome to steel picking. Over the years i have seen a lot of the great players use thes. Some of them may seem obvious. Don t be discouraged by the difficulty of getting your chord grips together meaning your picking hand.

A steel guitar is any type of guitar that is played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings a concept somewhat akin to playing a guitar with one finger the bar. 6 string ranch 27 894 views. A lesson on how to get some tom brumley ballad style licks using bar slants or lkv. Slants cool tricks and other tunings duration.

In this video i show four licks that utilize bar slants. Here s a little tool that will allow you to figure out how easy bar slants are on any steel guitar. This is a difficult slant to do on the lower frets and therefore a good measure of slant difficulty. Whether or not you end up playing it that way out on a gig it s still good.

For instance practice grabbing a chord shape and then moving it from one string set to another. 2 beaverton elks december 7 2014 duration. With all the knee levers and floor pedals on a steel guitar why should we take the time to learn slants and reverses. Steel guitar jam 2014 vol.

The hard object held against the strings. Some of them not so much. Here are a few tips for those who are learning to play the steel guitar. Lap steel for guitarists part 5.