Hello Guitarists! My foray into B-Bending doesn't stop and neither should yours with this very expressive and melodic B-Bender Solo! This one has everything; open string harmonics, minor licks, dominant voiced licks. This country rock classic is from Linda Ronstadt's version of the classic tune, "Willin'". Originally written by Mr. Lowell George of Little Feat. Check it out: https://jeffsguitarandsteel.com/lessons/song/bob-warford-willin/1753 Als...

Hi All I've got some more content for you that may pique your interest. Lately my girls have been listening to Zach Top. I like Zach Top. It sounds like 90's country to me. Now to be clear, I didn't listen to any country when I was a kid in the 90's, but I've grown to appreciate it as a steel player, it's basically just Paul Franklin (Steel player) on every song! I'd be willing to bet 83% of all 90's country hits with pedal steel guitar feature P...

Hi All, I've been B-Bender crazy over here at Jeff's Guitar & Steel Enterprises. Just can't stop! I wanted to let you know I've released yet another vid on the topic. I transcribed the legendary Lloyd Green (Pedal Steel Player) intro to the iconic song You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by the Byrds. Here is a great clip of Clarence White (B-Bender Pioneer) from his tenure with the Byrds playing the intro to You Ain't Goin' Nowhere on the Playboy afte...

Hi All, As promised, I've got some more B-Bender material. For those of you unfamiliar with the B-Bender guitar, I fill you in with my gap-y knowledge. :-) The B-Bender sounds amazing and is a great way to expand your creativity and imagination on the guitar. So, in order for you to better understand the B-Bender Guitar I've posted a lesson called Triads for the B-Bender which gives you a way to connect B-Bender licks to triads on strings 1,2, an...

Hi All, As promised, I've got some more B-Bender material. For those of you unfamiliar with the B-Bender guitar, I fill you in with my gap-y knowledge. :-) The B-Bender sounds amazing and is a great way to expand your creativity and imagination on the guitar. So, in order for you to better understand the B-Bender Guitar I've posted a lesson called Triads for the B-Bender which gives you a way to connect B-Bender licks to triads on strings 1,2, an...

Hi All, Per request, I've been delving into the B-Bender more and have some new content coming out! I've listened to a lot of Sneaky Pete steel playing over the years, voluntarily and involuntarily. I've also studied his steel playing a lot of over the years. Sometimes when I'm caught off guard by a Sneaky solo and I don't analyze it quickly, he sounds like a psychedelic country guitarist to me instead of a steel player. So, I've transcribed Sne...

Hi All, I was recently asked to transcribe a Myrick/Rugg speed picking exercise that was released I'm assuming in the 1970's. It came with a country sounding 1541 backing track. Probably in one of the few pedal steel fanzine or magazines that was released long ago. Not sure when exactly. But, the point is that: It's a great right hand exercise for utilizing two fingers It shows you how to connect a major scale together across 3 strings up and...

Hi Everyone, I realize this John Hughey intro has been done so much, but I'm going to post it anyway because I think have cracked the code on how to do it properly! I was going through all of my videos to update them with the soundslice tab player for my site and was noticing how horrible my version sounded to me, and I think I figured out why. Also, I just couldn't just leave that up there! So, I redid it. I thought that the 2nd measure where he...

Hi All, It's been too long! We've had a busy spring updating and revamping the website for modern computing. One thing you might notice is most of the pedal steel lessons are synced to tab. This is a great way to loop certain measures, slow down the demo, and a tool for those who just want to practice the lick, intro, solo, etc. Also, the lessons are no longer separated by Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced in the menu bar. Rather they are separated...

What the heck are modes?!Hello Steel-ists,I just released a video about how to take 1 lick and give it a different feel or context by using the concept of modes.I'm a very modal dude. Love em'. Fantastic! Here's some background on me, I went to Jazz school for about 2.5 years, and I learned a lot, especially that I don't really like jazz. As a youngster I attended jazz school camps and hesitantly played in Big Band/Be-Bop combos at non-jazz schoo...