This is the story of my life with the steel guitar. After 15 years of playing live as a sideman,…
Chords based on stacks of fourths instead of traditional triad-based harmony have been a staple of jazz players since the…
The E9th tuning that we know today offers many possibilities for harmonies based on the simple Major and minor chord…
Here’s a nice, usable, bluesy sounding lick on E9 that can work over the basic changes to a blues or…
PENTATONIC APPLICATIONS Any five note scale can be called a pentatonic scale, but the one that gets the most use…
THE NUMBER SYSTEM I first read about the Number System in Jerry Coker’s 1964 book “Improvising Jazz”. I found it…
If you are reading this you are reading the written English language. You would be suspicious of the education of…
The steel guitar was born playing Hawaiian music, and although many of us don’t play that style, we can still…
This is one of my favorite changes on the E9th. Almost every PSG has it and it really opens up…
I’ve seen some interest in using the G# to G change found on some E9 PSGs, so here’s one possible…
One of the most popular chord sequences in our musical world is the progression to George Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm”.…