Love the "pinky pull". Never would have thought of that myself.

This is exactly the lesson I’ve been dreaming of, excellent presentation!

Dude, I’m just now starting out on the lap steel and you have already been most inspiring and helpful. Thank you!

That pinky trick is a bit of a revelation. Thanks. Got to try it out.

Just purchased a lap steel. This is awesome!

This is so slick. Thanks, Steve!

Steve, this is a great, no-nonsense vid. Gives a lot to work on and your explanations are easy to follow.

The relation to standard tuning is of great value!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

How cool ! What a neat teaching video, I'm an oldtime banjo player , I've just bought an old guyatone lap steel and having a lot of fun with it in C6th , thanks for the lesson

You make that look so easy....I've played a standard 6 string guitar for decades....But this sure is tougher than it looks!

Had I already seen this video I would not have queried your E6th tuning! Great tuition, Steve. Thoroughly enjoyed. [I wish such as this was available all those years ago when I was starting out on the steel guitar].

Very nice and useful lick; thanks for showing it to us.

When I come to power you, Steve, will be appointed as Minister of All Things Lap Steel. Great lesson!

Dang that was impressive

Steve, the best lesson since I began. Thanks a million.

Love this lesson, simple and direct. Sounds great!

didn't even know about string puls until I saw this! it's a whole new world! thanks!

Nice. I had an old Magnatone that looked identical to that one but for the badge on the headstock.

Amazing Thank you for the teachings.

Wow -- I'm a bass player, and I've only really been able to play with one steel player. He played pedal steel. I had NO IDEA about this "pinky bending" thing you can do on a lap steel. So other than the pedals or knee levers that drop the sound, you can pretty much keep up with a pedal steel player and hit all sorts of whacked out chords. Mind = blown.

Great stuff. Steve! And it helps me to have things related to standard tuned guitar--no problem with that, at all! Looking forward to trying it out.

This tip is gold...

Loved this. As a learning player it gave me some great ideas. Thanks!

This helped me. Thank you

Thanks for taking the time and doing this video Steve...just getting back into playing my Ric Lap after too long of a hiatus(for what reason I don't know), and this is a really nice harmonic/melodic inspirational kick I will be incorporating...thanks for sharing;)

Nice lesson! Been playing slide guitar for 4-5 years now in the style of Elmore James, Derek Trucks, Duane Allman, Son House and myself :) but finding a good lap-steel lesson on youtube like this isn't easy. Good going! Like how you put the lick into context. It would also be an idea to try to do the same thing in perhaps your old tuning E6 --> in order to prove the point that a key may change but the lick "algorytm" stays the same, the only difference is that the key is in E.

I'm waiting for some strings to come in for an old Dickerson lap steel I picked up at a swapmeet to resale, but listening to you here has me thinking I should just add it to my wall in my studio instead. Thanks for the inspiration! PS! It's the same color and shape as yours!

Great Steve thankyou ❤

Great Vid! Fun Concept! Thanks!

Thanks Steve , really helpful !!!

Way too cool,I just built a lap steel ,you Da Man!

Two thumbs up brother,great lesson,my second day playing a lap steel,this really helped,thanks

I am digging it Steve!

great teacher, thank you!!

PS :- I hope you do more videos like this in the future ! _________________

Excellent vid

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Woah. I've never seen pinky-bends like that on slide before.

i have the same lapsteel

Steve I found this lesson very useful as I am starting my head first dive into lap steel after playing regular guitar for years. I'm having a blast with the instrument so far. Picked up a Supro Comet from my neighbor just last week. Would love to see some more C6 lessons like this for blues/jazz style playing. Or if you offer live video lessons I would be very interested. Thanks man , let me know! -Derek

a good lesson

NICE!!!!!

Your guitar looks like one of the variants of the Dickerson. I just got a '47 Dickerson that needs fixed up... but It's gonna sing again.

I always wondered what lap steel players were doing with their pinky finger. I didn't know they bent strings like that.

LINDO SOM, SUCESSO.

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Great stuff Steve. Where do you find the background?

Hey Steve, kinda lost ya for a while. I think I've got more online accounts than I can remember and now that google is taking over earth I do that account; so I gotta build my saved videos all over again! Arrrrgh! Anyway great instructional video as I would expect from you. Digging the western swing man!

Thanks for the video. Good stuff! I think I have the same lap steel you use in this video (looks exactly like it) but mine doesn't have any indication of the brand. Also have a matching amp, again with no name. Can you tell me anything about it? Thanks.

I keep running into not being sure what tuning to start with if i want to play alt-country. I research, get a lot of conflicting opinions, then give up. What would you say a best starting tuning would be?

i have a lap steel guitar just like that enemy aunt gave to me can u tell me a little bit about the make or history of this guitar? thanks Thomas

How are you making it get that old country sound? Is it the way you are picking or do you have the tone nobs adjusted a certain way? I've seen different people play the same type of lap steel and some sound no different than playing a slide blues guitar and some can get that old Hank Williams country sound that sounds totally different

the thing I'm noticing,being new to lap steel,is how high the string tension seems to be.I'm impressed by the effects you get from string pulling,but do they ever snap on you? My lap steel has quite a prominent break angle over the nut.

Thanks! Is that a Magnatone?

Great vid! I really want to buy a lap steel but not sure which one. Which one you think is more country/western swing in sound? Morrell, Airline, Gretsch? I want it to be as close to a pedal steel as possible. Gonna also use a volume pedal. Thank you!

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Do you play this through a matching Mel-o-tone?

I got a lap steel very similar to this from my grandpa when he passed only it just has a single volume knob and this metal bridge thing over the strings at the end and no head stock logo any info on it for me?

Thats pretty neat stuff your doing. What kind of foot pedal is that?

What that steel guitar name

There's not a single person just giving you a tuner. Everyone talks and talks

Hey I have a 21" scale lappy. Should I use standard E strings to go to g tuning? or what works with 21"???

Il tire comment les cordes ?

I would have liked to hear each open string at the beginning of this vid. What are the notes? Thanks.

What string gauges are you using for the c-6 tuning? Mine sounds like a damn banjo. Thanks.... Mr Weed

Is that a Dickerson?

What make of lap steel are you using?

Hi Steve, any intetest in selling Leilani ? I have her twin sister....