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Originally Posted by Rixy
So where do you guys learn Weissenborn? I'd love to find some DVDs or books but I'm not sure where to start. I'm into the roots/blusier side of playing. Don't care much for Hawaiian, no disrespect  |
Really depends on your preferred style of music. I lean toward the blues and very early hawaiian. Both in lap and standard slide playing I lean on Open G. To that end I always point beginners to Bob Brozman's Lap Hawaiian and Lap Blues DVDs. Simply because Open G and D are so easy to tune to, and are so versatile in standard guitar (slide and fretted) and Lap. Once you get proficient at Open G, it makes things like C6 so much easier to pick up. I pretty much stick to G, a little D, and a very little C6.
And that's the issue with Lap. Almost every "big name" hawaiian player has "invented" their own tunings, often for one song. It's a little more controlled in the country world. But you gotta start somewhere, I recommend G.