Online Music Lessons from Music Texas Style

In this series, Reece Anderson will delight you with his incredible Lap Steel Guitar skills while teaching you how to play this magnificent instrument at the same time.

Reece will begin by teaching you single notes, their position, how to use a steel to change the pitch and tone. He will also show you how to play some basic chords and pick individual strings.

Reece will show you how unique and interesting this instrument is and assist you on your journey as you begin to play it.

Reece continues this series of lessons by teaching students about finger and string groupings and how, when played correctly, they will produce chords.

More advanced players may have started the series of lessons at this juncture, but Reece is quick to remind anyone attempting this module that they need to be completely confident and aware of fret and string positions before continuing, otherwise more practice is needed and should be undertaken at your own pace.

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.

Reece begins this series of lessons by examining tablature and looking at major and minor chord groupings. He explains them at length, making them easier than many other instruments to learn.

Reece will also be teaching students the song faded love and the chord and key groupings used.

Throughout this package of lessons, Reece will be teaching how to recognize dominant and subdominant chords and frets and their positioning on your lap steel guitar.

He will introduce two new songs, of a varying difficulty, and will discuss the possible benefits and drawbacks of written materials.

Reece will combine every piece of information he has taught you so far, from triads, to fretwork, sliding steel, to octaves and from dominant to subdominant chords in this series of lessons in order to make sure you are fully understanding the lessons and are maintaining a steady learning pace.

He will also be combining all of this information in order to teach you different sections of the song "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."