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Old 11-15-2013, 09:03 AM
Slide911 Slide911 is offline
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I've played both lap steel and dobro for years. C6 is pretty much the standard tuning for lap steel if you are playing country and certainly has the most teaching material dedicated to it.

That said, a slight warning about trying to translate dobro skills to the lap steel. They are COMPLETELY different. The attack is different, the tuning is different, the bar you use is different, the style is different. The entire approach to the instrument is different. In fact, I had to unlearn a lot of my dobro skills because they did not translate well to lap at all.

After playing lap steel exclusively for the last 5 years, I've recently switched back to dobro and I have to build my wrist muscles up again. You lose all that when playing lap.
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