Chords for Country Dobro and Lap Steel For Beginners Scott Grove Lessons Guitar

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_ _ Hello folks, I'm Scott Grove.
No sooner did I put out my Dobro and lap steel guitar for the blues players and the rock players
And I started having a lot of requests to get the Dobro and the lap steel guitar for the country players
Okay, so I'm going to actually do it right from square one
So we will get the country sounds, your bluegrass sounds and so forth
So for all you beginners out there, this is for y'all
Okay, to understand the difference really quick, so you know what you're tackling and which instrument you might actually want to play Or both
The two I will be teaching you today, they will be tuned identically
So you decide which sound you like Okay
_ Number one, you have a Dobro or a resonator guitar Okay
They come in a square neck
_ Like this one here
The strings are way up high off of the neck
That's the way they are designed to be
_ _ And so once again, this is a Dobro
And this resonator here does exactly what it says it does
It makes it sound very _ resonant
That sound just goes and goes and goes
Pardon me while I drop everything in the studio _ _ _
Anyway, I will flop this bad boy right here
And just show you [C] kind of what it sounds like
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_ Okay, so there's your typical _ _ _ sound of a Dobro _ _ _
[A] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F] _ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _
[B] _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _
[N] Okay, so that's basically what your Dobro is going to sound like
_ If you are looking at lap steel guitars
Okay, we're looking at _ _ basically the same thing
But we are going electric with it Okay _
Here would be one version, they make a million of them
So, _ _ this one is a six string, they make them in eight strings
In every configuration you can possibly think of
Okay, I'm going to grab me _ a regular guitar pick
You can use finger picks, thumb picks, or guitar picks
I don't care
Whatever your little heart desires
And you think you'll be comfortable with
You can do them
These are your finger picks and thumb picks
You can order those
You've got two steel ones on your first and second finger
And a plastic one that will fit on your thumb
So you can play it that way
Which is what most traditional people do
_ Whereas I normally don't
Because I switch between so many instruments on a stage
That I don't have time to be putting those on and taking them off
Okay, so right here on our lap steel
I'll go ahead and get the camera down here
So you can actually see what's going on
I'm sure you'll appreciate that _
[Bm] Same thing, I'm going to use a guitar pick this time _
[D#] So same as I was doing [G] before
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_ _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ Okay, [G] so we will get into [G] that _ _
[C#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[B] _ [N] So we'll get into all those sounds
Now you'll ask, where is that very very very traditional _
Old country sound, the really good stuff
Now back in the days
A _ lot of the steel manufacturers
That did not make pedal steel guitars
That made lap steels
Offered these only in like _ four neck models
So there would actually be this guitar
And then another one, then another one, then another one
All hooked together
And all tuned _ _ differently
So that's how they got so many sounds
Especially when you're thinking of
_ Your Texas _ swing type of stuff
Okay, or your Hank Williams
That kind of stuff
They would actually use multiple stuff
I'm going to use this just purely for example
Here is a regular pedal steel
And this is what they call a _ C6 _ tuning
This is actually E9 steel
But I'm going to show you what
You are also thinking that you might be _
_ _ _ Getting here today
Which you will not
Because you would actually need another [F#] steel
Tuned in C6
That's where you [A#] get these sounds _ _ _
[Bm] _ [C#] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A#] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[D] And the pedal steels also do the
So _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _
_ [N] that is a pedal steel
That is not lap steel or dobro
That we are doing today
So once again, Scott Grove
I'm going to take you with the six string _ dobro
And pedal steel
They can be played identically
So no matter which one you choose
We will get through it
And teach you all the basics of country
And or bluegrass
And we are going for the old style
No new stuff here
We are going for the cryin' whinin' _
Good old fashioned classic stuff
So western music
I'm not sure how much country is involved
This is the western stuff
_ So if you're into that kind of music
Which I love
_ That's what we will be concentrating on
So once again
As long as you have a six string instrument
That's what we are going to go for
I'll show you all the tuning and all that stuff inside
And we'll start to make music
We will have backing tracks of music to play along with
And for you to mess around with
And to practice with
So we'll go for as long as it takes
Until I feel that we have covered enough bases
That you can just go right on off
And start making music on your own
And figuring it all out Okay?
So once again, Scott Grove
And it's country time y'all Yeehaw! _ _ _