Hawaiian Steel Guitar

A Simple Chord Based Tutor For Learning Steel Guitar Played With a Sliding Steel Bar.

		EXPLANATION OF THE DIAGRAMS The diagrams or pictures of the fingerboard showing the strings which are represented by the six vertical lines. The horizontal lines represent the frets. The heavy lines at the top the Nut. The figures at the left side are the numbers of the frets below the Nut, and as many chords are made on higher frets it will be necessary to look at the number of the fret before the diagramwhich may be marked 6-7-8-9-10 etc. etc. The Black dots show the position for the steel to hold down the strings, the open dots denote an open string to be played open without the steel as shown in this diagram the Chord of A. ILLUSTRATION OF THE BARRE CHORD This diagram shows the Barre chord (or barred chord) of E which is made by holding the steel over all six strings at the 7th fret,to play the chord pick the 5 - or Bass string with the thumb pick the three treble strings, lst 2nd and 3rd strings together, three times in succession making 4 counts, the Bass one the treble string 2 3 and 4, thus playing the chord in what is called 4/4 or Common time. THE SLIDE In making Barre chords slide the steel from the Nut to the position of the chord, for ex- ample try this E chord by sliding from the 5^ to the 7th fret and tremolo at the 7th fret.