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NON-PEDAL STEEL Tab & Audio CD/Cassette Instruction

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NON-PEDAL STEEL Tab & Audio Cassette/CD Instruction
Listed Alphabetically By Artist

Mel Bay (by Scotty)

'Basic C6th Non-Pedal Lap Steel Method'
by DeWitt Scott
This Course Teaches Notes And Theory for the Non-Pedal Steel Guitar, "From The Ground Up". This Comprehensive Course In Tab & Staff, Lays Down the Basics in Music Rudiments, Blocking Exercises, Chords, Scales, Volume Pedal Technique, Runs & Fills, Etc. Songs Include: Banks Of The Ohio, Careless Love, Bile Dem Cabbage Down, Red River Valley, Swedish Waltz, I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, Waltzing With Brenda, Precious Memories, Lovely Maori Girl, Wildwood Flower, Little Brown Jug, Joy To The World, On Top Of Old Smokey, Sweet Hour Of Prayer, Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister?, The Scottish Waltz, Greensleeves, Amazing Grace, My Wild Irish Rose, I'll Be All Smiles Tonight, Aloha Oe, Aura Lee, Wabash Cannonball, Shenandoah, Byrds, The Great Speckled Bird, St. Louis Blues.
Book & CD - $29.00

Jerry Byrd

'A Complete Study For The Serious Student'

A Quality Upgraded Version Of The Original Course. In It's 5th printing, It Is A Must For The Jerry Byrd Fan. 323 Pages Accompanied By Two Stereo CD’s With Jerry On One Channel And The Band On The Other Channel. Beautifully Bound In A Three Hole Binder.

Course - 3 Ring Binder with Two CD’s $157.00

Don E. Curtis

'4 Swing Solos' (6 String C6th Tuning)
King Of The road, Drivin' Nails In My Coffin, Coquette, Four Wheel Drive.
Tab & Cassette - $19.00

'Non-Pedal Solos'

(6 String E7th Tuning)
Waltz Across Texas, Faded Love, Jealous Heart, Beyond The Reef, In The Garden, Mississippi Waltz, Rubber Dolly Rag, Precious Memories, Texas Playboy Rag, Battle Hymn Of The Republic.
Tab & Cassette - $21.00

Don Helms

'Your Cheatin' Heart'

Steel Guitar Songbook - E13th Tuning

The long awaited Songbook of one of the most popular players of all time. These ten tunes are among the most popular songs sung by Hank Williams. Computer enhanced tablature for easy reading. The tab & cassette features The Intro, Backup Behind The Singer, The Turn-Around and The Ending of each song. You will be surprised that Don never used the E13th tuning as we know it. He had the 7^th & 8^th strings tuned to C# and A, AND he never once used a slant bar position! These songs can be played on a 6 or 8 string guitar as Don never used the 7^th and 8^th strings in this book. Compiled & Edited by DeWitt Scott.

Songs Included: Your Cheating Heart, Hey Good Looking, Jambalaya, Mansion On The Hill, Take These Chains From My Heart, I Saw The Light, You Win Again, Wedding Bells, Cold Cold Heart, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.

Tab Book & CD - $44.00

Dick Meis

‘E7th’ (E9th)

‘Steel Guitar – Note Reading Course’

This course teaches the steel guitar player how to read Staff Music (Note Reading).

It uses the E7th tuning (comparing it to the E9th, enabling E9th Pedal Players to learn to read notes).

Intro & Tuning, G Scale, Little Brown Jug, Beneath The Stars, Marching Together, Shifting Steel, Rhythmic Waltz, My Bonnie, Familiar Tune, Blue Hawaiian Skies, 1^st & 2^nd Endings, Pale Moon, When I’m With You, Moonlight In Hawaii, Songs For Rhythm, How Can I Leave Thee, Hilo Bay, Work For The Night Is Coming, Rhythm Study.

Book w/CD Tracks $44.00

NEW!!!

‘Non-Pedal Steel Guitar –

Workshop No 2’

Dick Meis teaches the fundamentals of the Non-Pedal Steel Guitar in this second exciting workshop, a follow-up to the first volume. Comes with workbook and practice CD. Covers scales and chord notes; chord theory and spelling; C6 and A6 fret board charts; E7 and E13 fret board charts, holding the bar and picking the strings; slant bar positions, and more. Tunes include: A Different Slant, Steel Guitar Rag, B. Bowman Hop, Midnight In Amarillo, Remington Ride. A great way to get started on non-pedal steel guitar or continue your studies from the first volume.

Practice Book w/CD $44.00

Jim Molberg

'Beginner Non Pedal Steel Guitar Lessons'
Getting started, Picks & Picking, Bar, Damping, Reading Tablature, Timing, Tunings, A Major, Octave & Harmonic Tuning method. Technique, Front Slants, Determining Harmony Notes, E 7th Tuning, C# Minor Tuning, Minor Chords, C 6th Tuning, Transposing, Harmonics, Reverse Slants, Intros, Improvising & Backing, Boogie Pattern, 12 Bar Blues, Other Tunings - E 6th (Now is the Hour)
Book - $32.00

Stacy Phillips

‘The Art Of Hawaiian Steel Guitar’

Over 50 solos with detailed analyses and historical background... solos by Sol Hoopii, Jim and Bob, Jerry Byrd, Dick Mcintire, David Kelii, Benny Nawahi etc . . . Maui Chimes, Moana Chimes, Song of the Islands, Hilo March, Kilima Waltz, Tomi Tomi, Tickling the Strings, Pearly Shells, Aloha Oe and 45 more... for acoustic and electric lap steel. . . the only book that notates the whole story of what the great Hawaiian guitarists actually played . . . recommended by all the Hawaiian guitar associations, DeWitt Scott (of the steel guitar convention) and Bob Brozman.

Book $23.00

DeWITT ‘SCOTTY’ SCOTT

‘Back-Up Behind The Singer – C6’

For Lap Steel, this book will be a big asset for you! Intro’s, Back-Up Fills, Turn-Arounds & Endings. C6th Tuning for the Lap Steel. Tunes include: Someday I’d Like To Play The Steel Guitar, The Great Speckled Bird, Amazing Grace, Bubbles In My Beer, Cheatin’s Still The Same. 23 pages.

Book w/CD $25.00

DeWitt (Scotty) Scott
Non-Pedal C6th (& C6th w/added A7th)

‘Old Favourite Series’

The Solos were recorded to fill a void in the Steel Guitar Instruction World. All tunes are old time favorites and all have a nice melody to them. The solos follow the melody with very little ad lib to them. They were recorded in the same type of environment that was available to the musicians of that era in time. NO reverb or any effect pedals were used in the recording. Just pure steel guitar.

‘Old Favorites #1’

1. There She Goes (Back Up)
There She Goes (Solo and Rhythm Track)
2. Slowly (Solo and Rhythm Track)
3. I Overlooked An Orchid (Solo and Rhythm Track)
4. Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way (Back Up)
5. I'll Go On Alone (Back Up)
6. Loose Talk (Back Up)
(The back up one's are direct off the record)

Tab & Cassette $19.00

‘Old Favorites #2’

1. Hawaiian Tattoo (Solo and Rhythm Track)
2. Hawaiian Sunset (Solo and Rhythm Track)
3. Next To Jimmy I Come First (Solo and Rhythm Track)
4. When Two Worlds Collide (Solo and Rhythm Track)
5. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Solo and Rhythm Track)
6. Georgia Steel Guitar (Solo and Rhythm Track)

Tab & Cassette $19.00

‘Old Favorites #3’

1. Why Should We Try Anymore
(Back Up & Solo and Rhythm Track)
2. Lost Highway (Back Up & Solo and Rhythm Track)
3. My Buckets Got A Hole In It (Back Up Only)
4. Mansion On The Hill (Solo and Rhythm Track)
5. Take These Chains From My Heart
(Solo and Rhythm Track)
6. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (Solo and Rhythm Track)

Tab & Cassette $19.00

‘Old Favorites #4’

1. The Older The Violin The Sweeter The Music
(Solo and Rhythm Track)
2. Are You Insured Beyond The Grave
(Solo and Rhythm Track)
3. The Old Rugged Cross Makes The Difference
(Solo and Rhythm Track)
4. Rose Of Old Pawnee
(Solo and Rhythm Track)
5. Born To Lose (Solo and Rhythm Track)
6. Aloha Oe (Solo and Rhythm Track)

Tab & Cassette $19.00

'St. Louis Blues' - C6th

1. Hawaiian Wedding Song
2. Blue Hawaii
3. Beyond The Reef
4. Harbor Lights
5. How D'Ya Do
6. Beer Barrel Polka-Tenn. Polka
7. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
8. Sun Shadows
9. Cold Cold Heart
10. St. Louis Blues

Tab & RT Cassette -             $27.00
C6th Tab Only -                     $19.00
C6th RT Cassette Only -       $13.00

'4 Gospel Solos' (C6th with added 7th)

1. Precious memories
2. Amazing Grace
3. In The Garden
4. What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Tab & RT CD - $13.00

'6 Christmas Solos' - C6th

1. We Three Kings
2. Winter Wonderland
3. Joy To The world
4. What Child Is This
5. Silent Night
6. White Christmas

Tab & RT Cassette - $15.00

'6 Solos' - C6th

1. San Antonio Rose
2. Steel Guitar Rag
3. Cheatin's Still The Same (backup behind a singer)
4. Bubbles In My Beer (backup behind a singer)
5. Sun Shadows
6. Sleepwalk

(San Antonio Rose and Steel Guitar Rag are different arrangements than in previous courses)
Tab & RT Cassette - $17.00

'8 Solos' - C6th

1. Tennessee Waltz
2. Your Cheatin' Heart
3. San Antonio Rose
4. Walking The Floor Over You
5. Fraulein
6. It Makes No Difference Now
7. Wabash Cannonball
8. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Tab & RT CD - $19.00

'20 Non-Pedal Solos' - C6th

1. Among My Souvenirs
2. My Isle Of Golden Dreams
3. Red Sails In The Sunset
4. Remington Ride
5. Dance Of The Goldenrod
6. To You Sweetheart Aloha
7. Down Where The Trade Winds Blow
8. Hawaiian Wedding Song
9. Keep Your Eyes On The Hands
10. Ka-Lu-A
11. Adventures In Paradise
12. Blue Hawaii
13. Beyond The Reef
14. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
15. Born To Lose
16. Steel Guitar Rag
17. Panhandle Rag
18. Harbor Lights
19. Release Me
20. Cold Cold Heart

Tab & RT CD - $32.00

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