What I play onstage in any situation goes towards "How do I arrange my role for what is played onstage" The more musicians that are onsta...

The Nashville Number System (NNS) uses the formula of the diatonic harmonies. It is a shorthand system which does not follow exact textbook

Let's look at how to learn to play a part from a popular song. We can get the notes right, but sometimes it still does not sound exactly ...

I'm very pleased to announce a brand-new course I've just launched called Paul Franklin's E9 Pedal Steel Vocabulary. For many years . . .

Everyone that wants to play fast or slow starts out copying their heroes (as I did) in my early teens. Most players that learn this way ...

Becoming a good backup musician depends on knowing where the “holes” are located. We either pad or layout until those holes appear.

When I played the 1 & 2 & 7 raise lever and the PF4, many said they were just “lick pedals”. That’s not how I was looking at it, and . . .

The pedal steel often can not invert every chord type like a piano can, so you’ll need to learn as many inversions as you can find.

The secret to finding logical copedents is to understand how chords and single note phrases are created. We do that by having a complete ...

A question about pedal trills and adding quick pedal moves came up on the Facebook Group…