You will employ everything you know about music in the process of arranging and you will learn not only a lot about the instrument itself, but, more importantly, about yourself. Even through the glitzy orchestrations you can hear the soulfulness and ingenuity of a player like Jimmy Day. The same goes for the instrumental recordings by Lloyd Green, Jimmy Day, among many others. Anyone who has ever listened to Jerry Byrd recordings, especially from Hi-Fi Guitar on, has probably had to lift their jaw off the floor once they realize what they’d just heard. Building arrangements is one of the most daunting and highly rewarding undertakings in playing steel guitar. I’d like to present a series of posts on a topic that is essential, highly personal and yet talked about too infrequently: building arrangements for steel guitar.
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