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Haha. WAC. Maybe. It's hard to know innit? Pedal steel is something else altogether tho... Who knows. Piano and organ players manage to work all four limbs simultaneously to make music so maybe it's less terrifyingly daunting that it might at first seem.
I actually find lap steel less difficult than slide on a regular guitar. On lap steel you don't have to worry about fretting out and the way it's laid out means you can see clearly what you're doing. Playing slide on regular guitar feels like trying to play table football with the table tipped on it's side!
One thing that's helped me is playing in standard tuning. It's all too easy to find a couple obvious open tuning cliches then get sort of stuck.
By going back to standard, I've found that you have to play clean and choose your notes witha bit more thought. Plus you already know your way about the neck so as long as you get your head straight as to what you're doing, you can concentrate on getting it in (or nicely out of) tune and getting good tone.
Would love a guitar setup for slide tho. I'm finding it nearly impossible not to fret out on the high e string with 10s and a low action on my tele.
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Good for you, I've never had the patience to sit down and learn properly... I remember when I had the fanciful idea of buying a pedal steel, sold my Les Paul and had the cash I needed for a nice Sho-Bud from Rhodes Music... Got talking to the guy in there, he asked if I'd ever played one and I said no, then asked if I'd ever played lap steel, again I said no... Then he asked if I played slide and I said I did but I was shit at it, he told me I'd be an idiot to buy it...
I bought a Casio FZ-1 sampler instead... I couldn't get rid of that thing in the end, had to leave it in the street for the bin men... What a waste... I'm an idiot after all!!