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mstuartev |
Greetings:
Mark Evans from Madison, Wisconsin here. New to the forum, new to weissonborn as well. Many decades playing guitar and about 15 on and off of playing bottleneck slide. Owned a National Radiotone (swapped some time ago), a couple cheap Harmony H165's (awesome all hog sliders), and a Gretsch Alligator - which I sold to help pay for the weissenborn. I think the acoustic lap steel will be my heading-toward-the-sunset years music project as it seems more mature and worthy of study (and it sounds great!)
Got a (used) Lazy River spruce over walnut weissenborn. Came with a couple Steve Dawson method dvds (playing in C and hawaiian style). I'm thinking this will give me the opportunity (or force me!) to get schooled on music theory. Never could read music. Just learned songs, some open tunings, and noodled around scales on my 6 string.
It's a joy to hear the sweet sound on these instruments, but also frustrating at the beginning. I'm sure that these questions have been kicked around but thought I'd put a few out again to get a few opinions and starting points/directions.
What are some good starting points? Start with memorizing scales? Work first with technique (hammer on/off, slides, vibrato, etc? Learn a few songs to get some satisfaction? Work only in a certain tuning first? Take some lessons?
The weiss came with D'addario reso strings on it (which were really worn) so I put a set of Dunlop reso strings I had (18/16) high end. The high end is deeper but maybe not as sweet singing. I'm guessing there are many schools of thought here. right now I think I have it open D which is familar to me.
Okay I rambled enough. Look forward to mining the knowledge base of the hangout. Thanks in advance for any help. Will post pics later.
Cheers!
Mark E in Madison, WI
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