Electric Steel Guitar Music

The steel guitar is known for its portamento capabilities sliding smoothly from one note to another emulating characteristics of the human singing voice.

Electric steel guitar music.

The hard object held against the strings. About lap steel guitars pedal steel guitars. Find the latest in steel guitar music at last fm. Play it in your lap use a strap place it in front of you electrify it keep it acoustic or even ironically play it standing up but you ll still get the same distinctive twang that gave lap steel guitars life.

Instead of playing them upright and with the strings facing away from the player s body lap steels are played while laid flat either on the lap or on a stand or standing up using a guitar strap designed to accommodate the different angle. Covered playlist 00 00 soul of hawaii side1 14 06 blue hawaii 16 58 pearly shells 19 49 lovely hula hands 22 12 hawaiian paradise 25 07 kaimana. A steel guitar is any type of guitar that is played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings a concept somewhat akin to playing a guitar with one finger the bar. My instrumental version of a classic tammy wynette song played here on the sho bud this and other backing tracks now available for mp3 download at http www.

Lap steel guitars lap steel guitars are played in a different manner to the regular guitar. Dating back to the late 1800s the lap steel guitar has been gracing bluegrass country and eventually music of myriad genres.