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Beginning Lap Steel Guitar - Lesson Pack 3

Progressing from previous lessons, students can expect to learn major and minor chords and string groupings.


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LESSON SERIES: Beginning Lap Steel Guitar - Lesson Pack 3

Online Lap Steel Guitar Music Lessons with Maurice

Progressing from previous lessons, students can expect to learn major and minor chords and string groupings. Reece will continue demonstrating note and fret positions in detail and exhibit how these can be used to great effect when correctly combined.

In this lesson package, Reece will teach you how to play your first song, assuming you are ready, and will also be guiding you through your first look at guitar tablature.

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  Lesson 9 - Major and Minor String Groupings
Lesson 9 - Major and Minor String Groupings

Being the founder of a company that makes steel guitars, Reece takes this opportunity to exhibit a different type of lap steel so you can see the varieties available and experience the different sounds they produce.

You will learn how to play major and minor chords by seeing exactly where to place your fingers on the individual strings.

Reece will express just how necessary it is at this point that you are comfortable with your hand positioning and explains that although you may be desperate to begin playing songs, you should first be familiar with all the aspects of the guitar.

  Skill Level: 1 Runtime: 8 mins  
  Lesson 10 - Release Me - Part 1
Lesson 10 -  Release Me - Part 1

As with any music package from Music Texas Style, a student with receive supplementary documents relating to the lessons and will be referred to by the teachers.

In this lesson, Reece will perform a small part of a well known song and then, note by note, guide you through the introduction. Via multiple camera angles you will be able to see precisely where to position you fingerpicks and thumbpick as well as your slide and easily follow Reece as he plays.

  Skill Level: 1 Runtime: 7 mins  
  Lesson 11 - Release Me - Part 2
Lesson 11 - Release Me - Part 2

As a continuation from the previous lesson, Reece will begin by refreshing your memory of the notes and chords used to play the song "Release Me". He will demonstrate the final part of the song, explaining in detail where to place the steel and what strings to pick, and show you how to combine the knowledge you have gained from both lessons to play the complete song.

  Skill Level: 1 Runtime: 3 mins  
  Lesson 12 - Reading Steel Guitar Tablature
Lesson 12 - Reading Steel Guitar Tablature

This lessons focuses entirely on learning how to read guitar tablature correctly. Whilst examining a page of music, Reece will explain where the keys and strings are displayed on the tablature and highlight where you played specific notes.

  Skill Level: 1 Runtime: 4 mins  
 
   

BIOGRAPHY: Maurice Reece Anderson

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Music Texas Style is proud to present Online Lap Steel Guitar Lessons with the legendary - Maurice “Reece” Anderson

Musical Background:

After graduating from high school, Maurice Anderson immediately pursued his passion for music by playing professionally with a band 5 nights a week. Showing a remarkable dedication and further displaying his zeal for all things musical, Maurice took on the extra task of teaching steel guitar at McCord Music, one of the most renowned music stores in Dallas history and a local hotspot at the time.

During Maurice’s extensive music career he has worked with an astounding number of legendary artists including Gene Autry, Tom Jones and LeAnn Rimes. He has appeared in the films “Honeysuckle Rose” (with Willie Nelson), “On the Road Again” and “Dallas, the Early Years”.

Throughout the years Maurice Anderson has deservedly earned an immense number of accolades. Most notably he has been inducted into The International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, The Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, The Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame and The California Western Swing Hall of Fame. He has even been nominated for a Grammy Award!

Teaching Experience:

Maurice has been teaching people to play both the Lap Steel and Pedal Steel Guitars for most of his life. He believes it is never too late to begin learning to play either of these unique instruments and knows just how enjoyable and rewarding the learning process can be. He currently works in the Dallas Ft.Worth area teaching, recording and even playing locally in Texas. You can be sure you will be learning from a truly committed individual with an intense devotion to music.



 
   

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