Faux Pedal Steel Guitar Tricks

Hi, David Caris. Here’s another two minute guitar trick that you can learn really easily. I know you can do this. This is how to get a thick pedal steel sound. You hear a lot of country guys do these. They’re very easy to do and I’m going to show it to you right now. Okay, here’s what’s going to happen. Get in here, nice and close; you can see this. I have my third finger which is on the G-string. I’m up here at the seventeenth fret and right in front of the seventeenth fret and you notice that I’ve got my pinky over the E-string and the B-string, okay, to the eighteenth fret. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to be leaving the pinky alone, barring these two strings and I’m going to start from the bottom. I’m going to come up on the E-string [Demonstration] The B-string [Demonstration] The G-string [Demonstration] And it’s going to sound like this. [Demonstration] All I’m doing is I’m taking that third finger and I’m just bending up silently. [Demonstration] You can go up all three. [Demonstration] All at once. Even when you get that sound, you know it’s a very cool sound. It does take a little bit of practice. It may seem a little unnatural at first but you’ll get the hang of this. This is very easy, I know you can do this. All you’ve got to do, again, get this pinky up here, barring this two strings, the E-string and the B-string, okay. Then your third finger supported by the second finger in the index finger and you’re just going to bend that up silently by the time you hit to that string. I kind of meet the other strings on there because you don’t want to hear any of these strings ringing up. [Demonstration] The way I’m muting them is I’m using my palm just to keep them from ringing out you don’t want any offending notes coming out on this. Here we go. [Demonstration] You can play around it. [Demonstration] Thanks for checking this two-minute guitar trick out.