I’ve been practicing a lot lately with some electric country backing tracks just to work on some fills and licks here and there, but it seems like everything I play ends up being very bluegrass-y. While it’s not necessarily a bad thing, I was curious if you all approach the dobro differently when playing with an electric band?

Thought I’d share a solution I found to keep fingerpicks from sliding off of my old fingers. I Gorilla glued strips of rubber bands on the inside of the picks! Works like a charm!

Just picked up a Gretch Boxcar on EBay for a very low price. I play lapsteel and already have a few nice instruments (newer and vintage) which are all in open D. I often capo with a Charlie Capo for tunes in E, F, and G. I got bit by the bluegrass bug and am working on flatpicking guitar after years of finger style blues playing. I could see going to a hip shot to alter tunings but I think I can find all the rock riffs I need in open G.

I realize this Gretch is not the best instrument but seemed like a good bang for the buck to explore Bluegrass Open G and also the typical standing position for dobro. Right now I have a steel tricone with a nut riser in this tuning but it weighs a metric ton. If I fall in love I can take my time and trade up to something of quality.

I also bought my wife an old Deering Goodtime on the cheap as she’d like to explore that instrument. Once she gets used to the tuning she’ll murder it as she’s a serious classical player with crazy good technique.

Any cheap or free (YouTube) teaching you’d recommend to get some bluegrass licks and techniques going? Any tips for the incoming Boxcar? Best strings?

Thanks all! Happy Sliding!

I am relatively new to the dobro, although I have been playing slide guitar in standard tuning, open E, and open G for a long time. I am really enjoying the square neck in Dobro/High G tuning, and have been dabbling with open D. They are both so fun. However, I am curious when is best to use each tuning... Is there a standard bunch of styles or keys where one is better over the other?

What tuning(s) do you use? How did you decide which one(s) to play? Do you vary from song to song?

posted on r/Bluegrass as well

Time to upgrade the dobro I think. Definitely leaning towards one of these. As far as the look goes I think I like the PBS-D but how it sounds trumps everything and I'm not from a big enough city where I can go out and try a bunch. Anyone familiar? Seems the PBS and PBS-M are mahogany and PBS-D is curly maple? What's the difference in tone?

Any other differences I should consider?

I bought the fishman aura pickup/pedal set for my Dobro and I am not getting a strong signal to the amp. It's very quiet. I don't have any experience with piezo pick ups. Is this normal?

I posted the Palm Tree resonator question….When I first acquired this I assumed that the action had been lowered because it was tuned A11. So I started inquiring around about getting the action raised up and the tuning changed to open G. This was enlightening because I quickly learned that I was oversimplifying things, as usual.

For one thing, I learned that Guitar Center actually sells them this way: A11, round neck, low action. So apparently that’s what I’ve got.

I also learned that there’s more than 1 definition of “Open G”. All the cool kids on YouTube seem to use GBDGBD but the tech at Guitar Center is hesitant to tune my round-necked guitar this way because of the additional stress on the relatively weak round neck.

So now I wonder if I wouldn’t be better off leaving this one alone and looking for a square neck resonator with the high action?

Was this site hacked? Do I have the wrong URL? Can't find anything through google except a site tryna sell boner pills. TY.

Title says it all. I can order these online and pay a ton of shipping but I've done this in the past with a paige capo for my guitar and was hit with ridicolous custom charges that were higher than the value of the item. Anyone know any Candian resellers where I could find one of these? Had a Shubb delivered last week and I don't like it. Seems like I've got to really fiddle with it to get a clean tone that still sings

I've been playing bluegrass music on my guitar for about 6 years and I'm decent enough. I picked up a dobro beginning of June last year. I've gotten comfortable with the finger picks and the bar and playing with a strap. I learned the layout of the fretboard fairly quickly and can pick out melodies by ear or memory realatively quickly. All around, I feel like I've made some good progress and I really enjoy playing it but whenever I intently listen to the pros and other players I admire, I realize I'm not even a fraction of where I want to be.

I realize that the answer to the question "how do I get good at an instrument" is always "practice". I do practice everyday and intentional challenge myself to make myself uncomfortble trying things I don't know how to do, but I'd love some specific tips or resources others have used on their journey

I think it's a wound 3rd string. Seems like these go bad on me way faster than other strings. They start to buzz and i'm constantly replacing them.

Bought m14 metal body and am putting a cone from a squareneck into this round neck but it should be working. There is a wood bar going down the metal body stopping it from even sinking in.