C6th Lap Steel Lesson 3

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C6th Lap Steel Lesson 3 - Chord Scales

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In this short lesson I go over what chord scales are, and how to play them in the key of C. Some basic music theory. We review chord inversions that we talked about in lesson 2, and apply them here.

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@waynedavies3185 3 жыл бұрын

I am getting more easy (less confusing), info, on playing a Lap Steel from Dan, than most other You Tube sites, that rabble on, leaving a person totally confused on how to play a lap steel. Excellent teaching Dan. Well done. Keep up the good work, and I'll continue to follow along.

@DThompson55 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Wayne!

@lesblack413 3 күн бұрын

Dan I think you are getting your steel guitar chord structures mixed up with a piano or keyboard chord structure. If you play the CEG chord open, you get a C chord. When you move the bar up two intervals, you actually move it one full tone or the equivalent of two fret markers, and you are now playing a D chord (D F# A), but not a D minor - unless you slant the bar to play the second note in the chord as a flat 3rd, which would be D F A.

@tohard5024 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Man I just discovered you. I've played jazz guitar for years but couldn't get my string c6 lap steel fretboard theory to line up with my ordinary guitar tuning thinking. You opened up my mind to c6. Thanks I really appreciate you. Be blessed.

@amj.composer 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!!

@DThompson55 4 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@billboy3076 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a million. Great lesson

@onlymusicmate 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou so much 🙏... I'm new to lap steel and here in India no one plays it nowadays. I found my dad's lap steel and wanted a lesson, your video really helped me.

@DThompson55 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic - there are some great players doing interesting things with Indian music using lap steel. Keep practicing!

@tohard5024 5 жыл бұрын

I guess nice comments aren't much unless I subscribe. I just did. Thanks again.

@jimharris5616 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for offering your expertise on the lap steel guitar. I'm very interested in the steel guitar but know very little about music. When someone starts into things like major, minor and triad notes for example I'm totally lost. How do I proceed to learn to play?

@DThompson55 2 жыл бұрын

Let's think about how to help you. Maybe I can make this even easier.

@DThompson55 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have time to talk on Monday? I'll set up a zoom.

@ronskoczen391 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff Dan, thank you! It seems you are playing the low C string on a few chords but the tabs do not show this on any of the chords. Is this correct?

@ronskoczen391 2 жыл бұрын

Nevermind, I see it's corrected in the next lesson!

@DThompson55 2 жыл бұрын

I plan on redoing a lot of these videos this summer. Keeping it simple, clarifying a few things, Looking forward to a fun 2022 with Lap Steel.

@jaikwillis 5 жыл бұрын

those aren't Am or Bm (or Bº) chords..... you are playing and notating Asus4 and Bsus4 You could get partial A minor in this position by playing the same shape as this F chord but with the high note on the 1st string instead of the 2nd string. You should probably pull this video down and correct that, or a bunch of folks will be playing the wrong chords. An arbitrary 11 is a weird tension on a minor chord and absolutely counter harmonic on a diminished area. Unless that's just how Lap Steel rolls lolz

@1JesseEns 5 жыл бұрын

yes,that's just how it rolls. I guess that's why on all those old records it sounds like it does.

@doug604 3 жыл бұрын

Those aren't sus4 chords either (those are always root-4-5, whereas these are root-b3-5), and I don't think an 11 is too weird on a minor chord. Granted I'm coming from a jazz background where it's super common, but it sounds fine in most contexts. What's really weird to me, though, is telling people who might not know better that it's a minor chord when there's a real minor triad available right there via the top three strings. And yeah, it's bizarre to say you're substituting Bmin for Bdim. That's just not something you can ever do. Of course, he's not actually playing a Bmin so it's not nearly as bad (aside from how confusing it is to theory newbies). While the voicing he _is_ playing doesn't function as a diminished chord at all, it won't necessarily sound terrible unless someone else is playing the F from the actual diminished chord in a higher register, creating a minor 9th clash between their F and the E in this voicing.

@lesblack413 3 күн бұрын

@@doug604 Spot on Doug, with the same chord grip playing the C E G notes, moving the bar up or down the neck still plays the major chord (root-3-5). The equivalent of two frets (One Tone) still plays the root-3-5 notes. The notes of the Dm are D F# A, as you said root-b3-5 (root-flattened 3-5).