Imitating Lap Steel Foundations

In this course, I'll show you all the fundamentals you'll need to start imitating the sound of a lap steel. From here you'll have a strong foundation to explore more challenging techniques, concepts and arrangements.
The course includes 50 video lessons, PDFs and backing tracks


What's Covered:
  • Making Maj6th Chords
  • Maj6th Chord Inversions
  • Focused Exercises and Approaches For Building Speed
  • The Half Step Approach
  • Hybrid Picking
  • Common Melodic Figures
  • Voice Leading
  • Voice Leading Melodic Figures
  • Maj6 to Dom9 Figures
  • Tone Clusters
  • Side Stepping
  • Harmonizing The Blues Scale
  • Tone and Volume Swells
  • The Speedy West Trick
  • Sweeping Through Chords
  • Harmonics
  • Using Glissandos and Lower Neighbor Slides
  • Solo Performances with Note for Note Breakdown


Imitating a lap steel guitar on standard guitar isn't just a great sound it's something guitarists having been doing since the 1950s. If you've heard Classic Country, Western Swing or Hawaiian Music then you've probably heard the lap steel guitar. Lap steel guitar can be lyrical by creating long sliding melodies like the human voice and exciting like the horn section of a big band with big glissandos and rhythmic stabs....So why should they have all the fun? Let's take those ideas and sounds and learn how to play them on guitar!



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