A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret ...

In the video above, Vos demonstrates how the setup enables his ‘violent’ playing style in open G tuning [GGDGBD], as well as showing off his 1957 Fender Champ lap steel and explaining why there’s no ...

Our Mahalo steel came tuned to open E (high to low: E, B, G#, E, B and E), a popular blues slide-guitar tuning used by the likes of Robert Johnson, The Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith guitarist Joe ...

I’ve been campaigning for more slide guitar in metal for years — what would some nasty pedal steel licks sound like amidst wicked slams?? — and my wish has finally been granted by Velocihamster, the ...

But while the lap steel guitar can still ... The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, using a similar gliding ...