Leon Kasdorf | Steel Guitar in Country Music | All levels | Week 1 ( Period 1 )

Steel Guitar can seem daunting, but I’ll cut through the complexity and get you started on the fundamental things needed to get you playing with a band. I’ll tailor the workshop to the experience level of the participants. I’ll be teaching standard E9 10 string pedal steel primarily, but we will likely work on some C6 non-pedal steel as well.

Topics covered:

Picks and right hand technique
Major triad grips
Three places to find major chords
The three common minor chords and how to find them
Seventh and Ninth chords
Common intros and endings
Simple licks, scales, and patterns
C6 Lap Steel basics

Instructor Bio

Lynn “Leon” Kasdorf lives, eats, and breathes country music. Good country music. The old kind of country music. Through years of attentive listening to the Eddie Stubbs radio show, Lynn knows just about every honky-tonk song there is, and if there’s a pedal steel part, he’s learned it. Lynn is committed to recreating the perfection that is old country music, be it crooked, quirky, or timeless. His mission is to help others appreciate the elements that make early country music so great, and to perform this music with soul and conviction on any instrument.
Lynn is one of the busiest pedal steel players in the Washington DC/Baltimore region. He started off in high school fingerpicking guitar and banjo, and he got his first pedal steel in 1974 after falling in love with the sound. He currently plays with Arty Hill, Human Country Jukebox, Willie Barry, the Hula Monsters, the Oklahoma Twisters, Karen Collins’ bands Backroads Band and Squeeze Bayou, and several others.