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Date Posted: 04/ 1/10 5:51pm
Author: Bobbe seymour
Subject: Steel Guitar

Hello fellow players,

Steel guitar seems to be becoming more and more important to young musicians from downtown Manhattan to the cow pens of Ft. Worth. A young film maker came in the store from Austin a few days ago and explained that he was filming a movie about the life of a steel guitar player.

Here is what he had to say.

I came through Nashville in 2008 and was only here for a day between Asheville and Memphis. In Asheville, before I came here, I was in a record store called Harvest Records and the young guy that owned the store gave me some free CDs because I bought so many. One of them was a Loretta Lynn compilation and I pretty much listened to that for the next 2000 miles back to California.

In Nashville, the CMA Festival was happening at the time and the city was crazy with music and people everywhere downtown and on Broadway. Seeing all this music and going into all the bars on Broadway got me interested in the scene here and the music here. Coming from Northern California, I never really connected with country music, but seeing it in person, in the context of Nashville, brought all the pieces together for me the for the first time.

When I was here on Broadway, I hopped around between all the different clubs and bars. I went into one of them and saw one band that I could only watch for about two songs before I had to meet a friend, but it only took those two songs watching the pedal steel player to become completely obsessed with the instrument. I only regret not writing down his name or who he was, but the memory of those two songs spurred an entire feature film based on the character of a pedal steel player in Nashville.

I spent the year of 2009 writing that film. Hopefully, in 2010 I’ll be back here making it and that’s why I’m here right now, to meet as many people as I can and hopefully be able to portray Nashville and the people here in as honest a way as possible. I think this city and the music here and the pedal steel specifically have never been put on film in the way that they really exist here and I’m excited to be able to do that.

That’s the end of his comments. J.D. Nasaw is the young man’s name.

This impressed me as it seems like I am suddenly seeing a beginning of a new wave of interest for steel guitar. And then of course remember, Frank Anderson is doing an exciting series on steel guitar for the possible release through PBS. Frank seems to be a very talented videographer and being a steel guitar player himself, I would expect no less than perfection.

So in the near future, I feel we have several interesting steel guitar projects with video and sound recordings.

It looks like where I have done newer players the most good has not been in selling them ukuleles, since we don’t sell ukuleles anyway, but through very easy to understand tablature on video.

Showing a student or young player how to play a nice show country song very clearly on video seems to do more to get a new player started than about anything I can do or have done.

On my video tab series I have slowly and clearly shown how to play very quickly and easily how to play Heart Over Mind as the opening song. This is a very quick and very easy way to learn this standard country tune. The good thing about learning with a video is that you can play each section over and over until you get it right.

I have mentioned this several times before, but I want to mention it again about me learning to fly and buying different video methods to supplement my learning with a teacher. This proved to me how helpful learning from a video can be.

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