After buying the individual lesson, I purchased the "Learn To Play C6 Lap Steel" download, and in my opinion it's well worth checking out. Tons of information, tabs, explanations, examples of techniques, a great selection of songs to learn/play, etc. Not affiliated in any way, but believe in giving props to individuals like this, it's as advertised. Also, after purchasing, I had a download question and Joe responded within 30 minutes. Lap steel is an underrated instrument, just love the amazing range of possible tones, especially paired with some delay and reverb. Looking forward to learning more, thanks JoeDoc:)

Very well done. My favorite steel guitar number. I'm an old guy and remember when Santo and Johnny made it a hit in the late 50's. I like the way you play it.

one of the best steel guitar songs ever...

C6 Lap Steel lessons are pretty sparse here on KZfaq and as a beginner Lap Steel player, what I found was more advanced for what I wanted or I didn't like their teaching style. For the price of what it would cost for an hour Lap Steel lesson you can Purchase Joe's 2 CD set. It's very well laid out and easy to follow and after watching just few short video's you can grasp the basic concepts that would make this video less intimidating to a beginner. I'm enjoying his videos and after for months of frustration, I finally have a sense of direction on this instrument. Thanks Joe

I love this song so much, every time I hear it it brings me back to the first time I watched "La Bamba" the story of Richie Valens and it gets me super emotional every time. Thank you for doing such a great cover of this song.

Joe did a great job. I can highly recommend the Sleep walk lesson and especially the C6 lap steel ebook. I played guitar for 30 years and this year I went into Weissenborn, Dobro and lap steel. For C6 the ebook covers everything you wanna know - basics, theory, lessons, licks and many more!

Those Rondo SX lap steels rock for sure!

This is my go to version of this song. My absolute favorite. Such fluid and majestic playing!

Excellent playing and teaching! Well balanced between easy and difficult. This balance enables you to get through the entire piece in just 15 minutes, with a wide variety of players able to benefit.

Brilliant work Joe, I love your teaching method. Makes it look so easy. Thanks a million Mike/Ohio

Hi, New to lap steel here. I published music lessons and music notation/tabs for 30 years. Your arrangement for Sleepwalk is spot on. The price is more than fair and I'm really pleased. Been playing six string electric for almost 60 years and I really am enjoying my new venture into lap steel. Thank you very much for your help. Signed, Old Dude in Retirement, Haha

Very, very nice Joe. That is one of my favourite song's and you played it perfectly. I can't wait to hear more. Thanks for sharing.

That was very nicely done! Impressed with how close it was to the original! Great work!

nice intro tutorial! I'm just learnin' lap steel and I love the "C6" sound.

It never ceases to amaze me how there could possibly be people who give an astounding performance such as this a "thumbs down"! It just reveals their lack of musical sense, or lack of appreciation...possibly envy or jealousy, who knows?

Thankyou for this wow what memories of my late dad sat downstairs 3am - ish on one of his two homemade 8 & 10 stringed electric lap steel's loved it thanx again x

beautiful playing , good as any ive heard .

Amazing,I play a banjo,but I'm tempted to try this.I really like the pedal steel sound.

I just got a lap steel for Christmas. Great job, this is a song I have to learn and this video is incredibly helpful!

Very sweet. Short, sweet and raw.

I have goofed around with sliding on my Strat, so when I tried Sleepwalk as my first lap steel piece, it has worked out well. My last step is to add the harmonics, and I am working on that now. I am a pro music teacher, jazz player, so I will end up sneaking my Gretsch Electromatic into our gigs! Great arrangement, and thanks!

I purchased your DVD online and it is full of good teaching - packed with great learning - thanks bud will be back for more soon..

I'm coming to lap steel from dobro, and always play with picks. Instead of using the finger tip for harmonics (there's no fleshy part of the finger available when I'm using picks), I use the palm of my hand, which works fine and for me and feels more natural. Thanks for a great lesson.

I love how this video gets straight to it. Great playing.

Thank you. This is a great breakdown and really opened me up to that harmonics+slide technique. 😃

first song I learned on the lap steel...nice easy to follow lesson. thank you. Just purchased an 8 string version of your sx

Thank you for this video. Just got my lap steel and this has always been my favorite lap steel song.

Nice work. C6 - the real deal!

Fantastic video. Been wanting to learn how to play this song on lap steel for a while, and this video was a perfect lesson!!

really good cover, and GREAT step by step!

Very nicely played.... It's tough to find good lap steel lessons so I'm going to check into this... The last DVD I bought was Cindy Cashdollar....a fine artist, but I didn't have as many strings as she did.... Turned out to be an only so-so value for me.... This appears to be more of what I am looking for!

Gorgeous!

This is just absolutely fantastic.

Just Got my beginner lap steel today. 6 Strings. I have a Dunlop Bullet Bar and A Shub Bar. I am excited to learn. Thank you for the channel. VERY GOOD. At age 71 this makes me feel young again. Something new on the guitar.

I always thought it was originally a shadow's tune. still its fabulous and I love the harmonics.....cheers Joe

I have two of the SX lap steels and you cannot beat them for the money. The ash models have sustain forever. Probably about to buy an 8 string as well.

Nice job... Been tinkering with C6 lap steel for a while... Video has inspired me to spend more time on it and hope to play as well as you someday.. Thanks

I got a lap steel for Chrismtas. Your video course took me from wtf to having fun in one day. I really love the instrument and your videos are so helpful. Thank you!

I just got my first lap steel this morning !! First song to learn !! Thank you so much !!!

Very Cool, one of my favorite songs as well,,,,Thanks for the View.

Great video. Am currently using it to learn "sleep walk" on my Fender lap steel. Hope to see more.

Thanks just what I have been looking for !!Keep up the good work !!!

I didn't notice any flubs on your part, but I can understand that when you are performing something live, you are going to notice everything you mess up, because you know exactly how it's supposed to sound. Sleepwalk is so cool. Keep up the good work!

One of the best tuition lessons on the tube Joe, very easy to follow. I just subbed and ordered DVD's 1 and 2 from Amzn...I have an old SX thats been sitting around for years and just could not find the motivation to learn how to play it. I play guitar...Uke..Mandolin..Fiddle. I started Sleepwalk yesterday and I'll give the family a surprise concert in a week or so. Regards John.

Hi Joe, You make an amazing sound...waiting on your dvd's and Have a Rogue on way from USA.......

Jan.2023 - I’m just seeing this now. I thought your performance was terrific. IMHO Santo+Johnny’s version set the gold standard for how a steel guitar should sound. You did a great job of recreating their sound and vibe, especially the harmonics. Bravo!

You want to learn C6 lap steel, Joe's DVD's are great. Easy to understand goes at a good pace to learn.

That is just really great, sounds so good.

Loving that sound. What a great track, makes me want to make myself a laptop...

Wow! This is wonderful. Thank you.

Very nice playing!!

Curious to me as to why someone would vote this video down. Beautiful touch and tone.

Thanks to your DVD on beginner lap steel playing, I finally learned how to play the right way!!!

I have my dad's lap steel from 1946 and I've been trying to figure out how to play it... I've been play regular guitar for a long time but I've wanted to play this song for so long, it's one of my favorite songs

This song to me put the steel into eternal classic mode enjoyed!!!!

Very nice job on Sleep Walk

Great video, Going to get the DVDs as soon as I can. I've had a lap steel one a year trying to learn without any real instruction. Hoping your videos and ebook will help.

That's a hell of a tone for such a low-priced lap steel! I think I'm gonna have to get one :-) Many thanks for posting :-) Pete

My new go to video. Excellent tutorial. I'm ready to explore C6 tuning.

great teaching and playing, very nice sound

I've been to Richie Valens crash site in Iowa and played this song at the scene, there's a heavy feeling there even 60 years later

Thia is fantastic...an actual lesson on 6 string lap steel..thank you so much for posting this

This is so wonderful to learn C6 tuning for sleepwalk! Thanks!

great lesson thanks gonna order this Sx lap steel!! Rod London

Very nice!! Thanks for sharing

Nicely done! I'd love to hear your rendition of Teardrop!

Excellent playing, lesson etc. I'm a newbie to this style of playing ! MT

Thanks for all the help with my DVD order. I appreciate the time and effort. Not being computer savvy I had a. little trouble, but with your help I am on track, and my lessons are coming along just great..... Thanks again.... Lena

great lesson..clear explanation and very well played..thank you !!!

Aaaaaah finally a cover so near at the original!!!

beautiful

This was awesome! I don't see too many videos that are beginner friendly for lap guitar. Thanks for the help!!

VERY NICE AND A GREAT SOUND

Excellent cover well done!

i like the way you teach

Thank you for the great lesson, I got a steel lap for X-mas from my dad and its his birthday this weekend and I will be playing this song to him as my gift. Thanks again

sweet.....I'm thinking of getting one.......

Hello JoeDocMusic, Back in the C6 mood again. I inherited a huge stash of vintage "Western & Square-dance" band instruments and ended up with a Pineapple MOT Yellow Volu-tone C6er no amp. A few years back. I converted it to a P-90 with new mini pots as it's super small. Almost like a violin size. Does the job and has some mojo. Then in the last few days of 2019 (as I write) I just scored a matching ensemble of the same Volu-tone with the Amp (no energizer?) So maybe late 1936... it is a 2 prong at the GTR with the BNC round washer type of screw to a stereo TRS on the amp end?. It is very played, yet minty fresh. Taking it to my amp tech near Sacramento (Skip Simmons Vintage Amp) he goes to the guitar show every year coming up very soon. Just thought I would say hey. Little tiny amp with black and big bottle tubes. Things like this are only original once. It needs to be brought up slow on his Variac, after testing the tubes. It's a time capsule in the case, mucho candy. A gold braided 2 rings bar and a Bakelite bar. Literally Christmas from who knows why? eBay 250 delivered? I thought I was getting it from LA turned out to be in Japan with a Master Navy man who MAC Flighted it via USPS To my place and it got delivered! You sound Amazing and as always inspire so many...Peace and Maximum Respect ~ Loo in Willerz, Ca. I-5 north

Ritchiiiiiiiiie!

I've just discovered you on you tube and I love your method of teaching - much easier for me to watch in slo-mo and learn to practice step by step like that. Also to me, that is the best sounding and best playing to the original Santo/Johnny record I've heard. The others try to play it in so many different ways that it really destroys the arrangement. Thank you!

I really enjoyed this

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Thank you for your lessons! I'll try to learn how to play my first-ever steel guitar. I subbed your channel!

This is so beautiful ♥️🙏🏼

Very cool. Thanks for your post.

Suberb teaching technique I must get this DVD, just one thing I use 8-string with high G so need to modify a bit, I am struggling with harmonics I must say which is down to stiff fingers I think ,

Beautiful love music ❤️

very nice warm, sweet P90 tone.

Great video, thanks for sharing

This is soooo beautiful..

Really good. Thanks 🙏

Thanks Joe. Been playing guitar for 50 years, and also been playing Sleep Walk for so long., but for an old guy learning something new lap steel is just what I needed. Probably too old to get really good but I really liked your lesson and it inspired me to change things up and learn something new. Thanks So Much!

Very nicely done

Never mind upon reading more and setting the wayback machine I found that you used GHS C6th strings, so I'm good to go as that is what I put on my Tiesco from the Sixties.

Make'in that lap sing so sweet !! Thanks for the lesson.

Just excellent!

Beautiful.

Fantastic video. Thanks. Nice looking guitar too.

Very nice job. I'm looking to get a lap steel. Thanks for posting

Wow Wow this is played so fantastically. Best wishes from Liverpool. Dave.