Instruction

First Lessons Pedal Steel by Jay Leach This book is an excellent introduction to one of America's most quintessential instruments, the pedal steel. The first part of the book covers the skills required to play the instrument in the standard E9th tuning,...

First Lessons Lap Steel Guitar by Jay Leach This book/CD course is a very good introduction to the 6-string lap steel, in the standard C6th tuning. Pictures demonstrate how to use the picks and bar.  Exercises and easy songs are written in standard...

'Perhaps' and 'Cheryl' are two similar 12-bar jazz tunes by Charlie Parker.  Jim Loessberg teaches both tunes as single string melodies for C6th pedal steel. Audio CD course with printed C6th tablature.

'My Little Suede Shoes' is a Charlie Parker tune based on Johnny Mercer's pop standard 'Jeepers Creepers'.  Jim Loessberg teaches the melody on single strings and all of the chords for C6th pedal steel. Audio CD course with printed C6th tablature.

'Look For the Silver Lining' is a popular standard composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by B. G. DeSylva in 1919.  Jazz fans probably remember it best from trumpeter Chet Baker's 1956 recording on 'Chet Baker Sings'. Jim Loessberg teaches this song...

'Dewey Square' is a Charlie Parker composition based on 'Oh, Lady Be Good!' by George and Ira Gershwin.  Jim Loessberg teaches the melody, then the chords for C6th pedal steel in the key of Eb. Audio CD course with printed C6th tablature.

'Au Privave' is an early bebop standard by Charlie Parker. Jim Loessberg teaches the song as a single string melody and then teaches the chord prgression in the key of F for C6th pedal steel. Audio CD course with printed C6th tablature.

'Move' is a Miles Davis song from his classic LP 'Birth of the Cool'. Jim Loessberg teaches this jazz standard as a single string melody and then teaches the chord prgression in the key of Bb for C6th pedal steel. Audio CD course with printed C6th...

"Take the 'A' Train" is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. It is arguably the most famous of the many compositions to emerge from the collaboration of Ellington and Strayhorn. The title refers...

"Straight, No Chaser" is a jazz standard composed by Thelonious Monk. It was first recorded on Monk's Blue Note Sessions in 1951. It has been recorded numerous times by Monk and others and is one of Monk's most covered songs. Music educator Mark C...

"Groovin' High" is an influential 1945 song by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard, one of Gillespie's best known hits and, according to Bebop: The Music and Its Players author Thomas...

"The Shadow of Your Smile", also known as "Love Theme from The Sandpiper", is a popular song. The music was written by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster. The song was introduced in the 1965 film The Sandpiper with a trumpet...