I’m 70 and starting the guitar for the fourth first time. I bought a “cheap” Zenison resonator guitar and been working on chords and tabs for a few months. I bought the resonator guitar in hopes of just entertaining myself here in the country on my front porch on summer evenings. I’ve watched your tuning video and this one, and subscribed to your channel. I’m old, but not too old to learn!! And, I only have to please, and entertain myself! I look forward to your lessons, Ma’am
Love it doing a great job. I'm 70 years old trying to play Dobro I know how to play guitar well, but it's all together a different instrument. Thank you🎉😂❤❤❤❤😅
i have a SX dobro = i got it worn out a little so i put a new bridge - tuners - brass nut - a martin pick-up - and new strings - then traded my old case for a brown alligator imitation leather with gold fittings ! loving it for 6 years now .
Great job! I played dobro in a bluegrass band in the eighties and early 90’s and haven’t played it since. I was amazed at how much technique I lost. It’s almost like starting from scratch! I googled “beginner dobro lessons and luckily found your video. I can’t wait to get to some more of them!
Thank you so much! I’ve been looking for true beginner lessons since my son bought me a steel slide guitar for my 65th birthday, and I have never played before!
Thanks for this posting. Have had a dobro for a while. And have tried to figure it out myself. But I have been able to use it a bit on several songs as part of our church's worship team. So there is no big solo or any pressure. But it is time to step it up. This looks like just the right place to do that. Thanks again, Fred
Now I am really hooked. The muted B's is amazing. Thanks for the simple straight ahead lesson. I love your jump in there and play enthusiasm. That's what music is all about. Thank you.
I’m another guitar player who picked up the dobro after a left hand injury. Love your sound teaching style! Hope you continue to put out similar videos.
Just found & bought a Gibson Epiphone dobro at a thrift store.. looking forward to learning to play it.. glad I found your channel will be a great help
Thank you Abbie! I love the way you teach this easy beginner lesson for absolute beginners like me. Just got a dobro and loving it but need more practice (who doesn't). This video was a tremendous help in learning the string relations and chords. Very simple when you show how it's so easy! Thanks again for an inspiring lesson, a great smile and and easy teaching method! Waiting for more vids! :D
Love this simple lesson! This is my second go round with dobro. I played pedal steel for some 30+ years. I gave up dobro the first time as I ran into a minor chord roadblock! I think I made it too hard. Thank you so much, I’m gonna know Darlin’ Cory by the end of the day…I’ll be back!
Thanks for a great lesson. Waiting for my first Dobro to arrive. Can’t wait to try it out. Nice to see someone from NJ! I work in Jersey City, when I can actually go back to the office. I live in East Brunswick.
I got my first dobro a few days ago, I've been playing guitar since I was 10, and had a rock band till I was 32, but the dobro seems so different, I'm kinda .... nervous! about it!!! I'm really busy on the ranch right now, but I'm going to tune it up to a G and try to follow your lessons. You are a great teacher in every way Abbie!!! Thanks!! This is a song I wrote for my late buffalo bull Chester Sr. He's old and skinny in it , but his herd is running and full of life. :D
Your lesson was fun. I loved it.I subscribed. I have a steel dobro That has gotten heavy to to lay across my bad knees so I flipped it over. Now I can deal with the weight. Thanks watching it again now..!
Aww thanks, that's so sweet. I bought a lap steel after playing regulate guitar for years. I love your videos and the manner in which you deliver them. Thanks
To be able to follow, I had to scroll up to hide your face. Your smile is too hypnotizing. Impossible to look at your hands otherwise. Excellent tutorial, I love it. :D
Fantastic! I lost the tip of my left ring finger 34 years ago, and have tried to switch to left handed. I just couldn’t untrain my brain. Gonna give this a whirl. Subscribed.
I really need to get a dobro now, this is great you're doing this. I love this song, I first heard an Italian banjo player doing it, then I noticed Red Molly does it, and now this.. thanks!
@@AbbieGardnerdobrosinger So is banjo 😁 ! Though I have played some slide in standard open G and D tunings on my junkier guitars where the action is too high, it would be fun to get a proper dobro 😁
Really refreshingly understandable! I just purchased a vintage 8 string lap steel, and would enjoy any more input on those” haunting” riffs!” Really cool! Thank you Tim
Abbie, I quit smoking a few months ago and I've been stashing my cigarette money to buy myself a reward. Because of you and this video, I bought a dobro this morning! I wish that I could get your autograph on it! 😁
I've been playing guitar since 10 yrs old. I just got my 1st resonator,(round neck). Now after seeing your video, of course I want a square neck. I played slide on electric guitar tuned standard. George Thorogood kind of stuff. The open tunings will take a while to get used to. I got a "cheater nickel nut" I put on my old Yamaha to practice until I can get a square neck resonator. Thanks for the great lesson!
Great video! I've been playing guitar for a while and wanted to try a different sound, so I purchased a $100 lap steel guitar (perhaps a Dobro some day) and I am getting addicted :-) I really appreciate simple songs like this one because I get instant gratification which makes me want to play more - thanks Abbie!
Oh my I am soooo happy I found you. I have been trying to play my dobro from a book 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Now I can learn from you I do sooooo much better from actual visual thanks for your videos. God Bless
Hey Evert! Here's a whole playlist of lessons and more on the way. *bit.ly/WoodshedLessons* Let me know if there's anything specific you wanna learn. :)
Hey Abbie! I have been playing 5 string Banjo for 10+ years, you are inspiring me want to go out and get one. Your are just a peach, you present the instrument very well. Thanks!!!!
aw thanks! You're already set with the picks, so nothing to lose! And dobro is a nice double for the banjo - so much sustain you can play fewer notes and breathe for a minute! :)
Certainly got me going straightaway and will practice and vary the application of the note sequence to try and get other bluesy riffs. It’s a brilliant start to playing Dobro, maybe even more immediate than the Joe Stoebenau Dobro tutor book I bought off Amazon!! When I’m more confident I will try your other videos. Thank you so much!
Love your simplistic tutorial. Pleaseeee make moree on open G tuning. So that I can make sense of the chords and scales and all the different chord inversions. I have no idea how to use everything in open tunings.
I’m a uke player, and recently injured my left hand, so my Uke playing is temporarily off limits; however, I have a resonator uke that I tuned to an open G (g b d g) and I’ve been playing it in my lap like a dobro. It’s scratching my musical itch, but is proving to be quite challenging. Your video is helpful in that I’m a very visual learner and watching your hands work the instrument has given me something to focus on with my playing. I know scales for uke in standard tuning, but not for any open tunings. I’m hoping your videos might help there as the two instruments are cousins. You make it look so effortless! :)
Abbie, I'm so glad that I found your channel, my Brother gave me a square neck Dobro for my Birthday. I love this 3rd to 5th frets lesson, and then being told to just go play with it. You should get together with Rhett Shull as he loves to play Open G on both Acoustic and Electric guitar. I'm subbed, thanks for a great lesson!
I hope to be able to find a teacher in my area (Hubbard , Ohio) & purchase as good a guitar as my finances will allow ! Enjoyed your Video instructions.
I agree strumming lessons would be awesome. I’ve played acoustic all my life but never got that good because I couldn’t stretch my fingers to make god sounding bar chords. I think this instrument might just be my answer to everything
Just keep expanding on the available pentatonic notes, for us till we got more than enough notes. Ya, and more than the blues sound. You know those lines that George Harrison would play that would sound so pretty they would bring a tear... like in Alvin Lee's The Bluest Blue. Thanks
thanks ❕ i bought myself a super nice custom sq neck resonator many years ago thinkin i could play it upright whitch i dō , occasionally , now i have incentive to revisit it in the right direction ❕🐊 🐸 🍀
I do believe a Angeles sing like a Dobro sounds. I miss it when im busy and sometimes just sit and stare at it. Ok im freaking myself out now lol. Very nice lesson 👌
Great lesson, @AbbieGardner !! Looking forward to applying your great insight to my upright round-neck reso slide playing. RUclips turned me onto your channel due to my watching history. Was surprised to see that you're in Jersey City - we're in West Central NJ. Hopefully my wife and I can get out to see you perform soon!
Your positivity and smile are infectious. I wanted to start playing dobro withing the first 2 mins of watching your video .
YAY! my evil plan is working :)
What can I say I'm a sucker for a smile and a pentatonic lick.
@@cplmackk1 She's cute...and I've got finger/thumb picks coming and I'll order that bar...I can't wait to start.
I know it's kinda off topic but does anyone know of a good site to stream newly released movies online ?
@Alejandro Xzavier try flixzone. You can find it on google =)
I’m 70 and starting the guitar for the fourth first time. I bought a “cheap” Zenison resonator guitar and been working on chords and tabs for a few months. I bought the resonator guitar in hopes of just entertaining myself here in the country on my front porch on summer evenings. I’ve watched your tuning video and this one, and subscribed to your channel. I’m old, but not too old to learn!! And, I only have to please, and entertain myself! I look forward to your lessons, Ma’am
Right on Ben.
Hows it been going for you?
Love it doing a great job. I'm 70 years old trying to play Dobro I know how to play guitar well, but it's all together a different instrument.
Thank you🎉😂❤❤❤❤😅
You can do it!
She fell in a bucket of happiness straight after she was born😀
You’re great! Your smile and happiness adds to the lesson.
Thanks!
Extremely approachable teaching and you add the fun of the basics without getting too far into the learning curve ahead of us. Great job Abbie.
Thanks Charlie!
I love you and the rest of Red Molly playing dobro on "1952 Vincent Red Lightning"
Thank you! And yes, any lessons on strumming would be fantastic!
i have a SX dobro = i got it worn out a little so i put a new bridge - tuners - brass nut - a martin pick-up - and new strings - then traded my old case for a brown alligator imitation leather with gold fittings ! loving it for 6 years now .
Just Awesome THANK YOU
Finally someone demonstrating proper Dobro tuning
Great job! I played dobro in a bluegrass band in the eighties and early 90’s and haven’t played it since. I was amazed at how much technique I lost. It’s almost like starting from scratch!
I googled “beginner dobro lessons and luckily found your video. I can’t wait to get to some more of them!
you got this! it's like riding a bike, except more fun :)
Great instruction.... DON'T STOP!
Fantastic. Recently got a Dobro. You are a good teacher and make it fun. Thank you.
Thanks Vincent! Good luck with it! :)
Thank you so much! I’ve been looking for true beginner lessons since my son bought me a steel slide guitar for my 65th birthday, and I have never played before!
you can do it Cynthia! Have fun!
Thanks for this posting. Have had a dobro for a while. And have tried to figure it out myself. But I have been able to use it a bit on several songs as part of our church's worship team. So there is no big solo or any pressure. But it is time to step it up. This looks like just the right place to do that. Thanks again, Fred
YAS!! Go for it! Even one pretty note is worth it. :)
Hi from NJ! Thanks for sharing.
I'm going to really enjoy learning from you
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Now I am really hooked. The muted B's is amazing. Thanks for the simple straight ahead lesson. I love your jump in there and play enthusiasm. That's what music is all about. Thank you.
YAY! Yes, music should be for everybody. Glad you're digging the lesson Steve! Slide on!
Great lesson!!👏🏼👏🏼
I’m another guitar player who picked up the dobro after a left hand injury. Love your sound teaching style! Hope you continue to put out similar videos.
Welcome Thomas! isn't it great how dobro is easier on your hands? More videos planned!
Just found & bought a Gibson Epiphone dobro at a thrift store.. looking forward to learning to play it.. glad I found your channel will be a great help
Thank you Abbie! I love the way you teach this easy beginner lesson for absolute beginners like me. Just got a dobro and loving it but need more practice (who doesn't). This video was a tremendous help in learning the string relations and chords. Very simple when you show how it's so easy! Thanks again for an inspiring lesson, a great smile and and easy teaching method! Waiting for more vids! :D
Very cool, John! I'm so happy when people pick up the dobro! I gotta make some more of these videos! :)
@@AbbieGardnerdobrosinger Please do!
Thank you for your simpel and easy Dobro lessons. You really made my day. 😃
Well done, very instructive. Like the way you tied it all together at the end.
Thanks Mike!
Love this simple lesson! This is my second go round with dobro. I played pedal steel for some 30+ years. I gave up dobro the first time as I ran into a minor chord roadblock! I think I made it too hard. Thank you so much, I’m gonna know Darlin’ Cory by the end of the day…I’ll be back!
Thanks for a great lesson. Waiting for my first Dobro to arrive. Can’t wait to try it out.
Nice to see someone from NJ! I work in Jersey City, when I can actually go back to the office. I live in East Brunswick.
Did it arrive? Exciting to get a new instrument! :)
@@AbbieGardnerdobrosinger It did. I’d be lying if I said it’s been easy. But it’s a marathon not a sprint!
Just got my first Regal Dobro today. Looked at 4 or 5 videos and locked in on The Woodshed… easy and very laid back… awesome…
Hooray! have fun sliding Big Stu!
Totally Awesome Lesson Thank You Love It!
Thanks!
Kool,just bought one & you are who I was look’n for!
I got my first dobro a few days ago, I've been playing guitar since I was 10, and had a rock band till I was 32, but the dobro seems so different, I'm kinda .... nervous! about it!!!
I'm really busy on the ranch right now, but I'm going to tune it up to a G and try to follow your lessons.
You are a great teacher in every way Abbie!!! Thanks!!
This is a song I wrote for my late buffalo bull Chester Sr. He's old and skinny in it , but his herd is running and full of life. :D
Your lesson was fun. I loved it.I subscribed. I have a steel dobro That has gotten heavy to to lay across my bad knees so I flipped it over. Now I can deal with the weight. Thanks watching it again now..!
Wow, you make that look so easy.
Sounds nice.
Lesson on picking to accompany this great vid of yours would be awesome
hey there, Dean! there's a video doing just that actually. Here's the link: Darlin Corey Rhythm ruclips.net/video/IhAs77iNiEQ/видео.html
Aww thanks, that's so sweet. I bought a lap steel after playing regulate guitar for years. I love your videos and the manner in which you deliver them. Thanks
You are an amazing teacher!!! Thanks for the lesson, looking forward to learn more from you!
Thanks Abbie. I gave my lonely dobro a wee kiss and played this lesson. Love it!
Love the tips great videos thanks
To be able to follow, I had to scroll up to hide your face. Your smile is too hypnotizing. Impossible to look at your hands otherwise. Excellent tutorial, I love it. :D
haha thanks Steve. Took me a minute to figure out what you meant, LOL
Great teaching method, positive and fun, Abbie!
I really appreciate your open approach leaving the ear to play around and learn. That’s the way aha aha we like it 🤣.
You are so awesome Abbie! Thank you!
miss you diane
Fantastic! I lost the tip of my left ring finger 34 years ago, and have tried to switch to left handed. I just couldn’t untrain my brain. Gonna give this a whirl. Subscribed.
Wow! Stumbled onto this video by watching bluegrass videos. Love your simple lessons. I will be visiting the woodshed again.
I really need to get a dobro now, this is great you're doing this. I love this song, I first heard an Italian banjo player doing it, then I noticed Red Molly does it, and now this.. thanks!
Nice! yeah, dobro is super fun!
@@AbbieGardnerdobrosinger So is banjo 😁 ! Though I have played some slide in standard open G and D tunings on my junkier guitars where the action is too high, it would be fun to get a proper dobro 😁
@@runrig97 yeah I like banjo too, but I only have so much time to practice.
@@AbbieGardnerdobrosinger Oh yea...
Really refreshingly understandable! I just purchased a vintage 8 string lap steel, and would enjoy any more input on those” haunting” riffs!” Really cool! Thank you Tim
Abbie, I quit smoking a few months ago and I've been stashing my cigarette money to buy myself a reward. Because of you and this video, I bought a dobro this morning! I wish that I could get your autograph on it! 😁
amazing! what a great motivator!
I love your set, (Green barn doors) and flowers... but the information is tops!
u r awesome, thank you, been playing guitar since i was 13, just bought a resonator you you tube video is great....
Great , just starting dobro.
Thank you THANK YOU! I just found Abbie Gardner and I am so glad I did
I've been playing guitar since 10 yrs old. I just got my 1st resonator,(round neck). Now after seeing your video, of course I want a square neck. I played slide on electric guitar tuned standard. George Thorogood kind of stuff. The open tunings will take a while to get used to. I got a "cheater nickel nut" I put on my old Yamaha to practice until I can get a square neck resonator. Thanks for the great lesson!
Hey James! That "cheater" nut is a great way to get going. Welcome to the square neck world!!
Absolutely love it !
So glad!
Great video! I've been playing guitar for a while and wanted to try a different sound, so I purchased a $100 lap steel guitar (perhaps a Dobro some day) and I am getting addicted :-) I really appreciate simple songs like this one because I get instant gratification which makes me want to play more - thanks Abbie!
awesome! have fun!
Sweet off and running-thanks
My first dobro arrived today, looking forward to playing more
Have fun!
Very good and simple lesson video 👍 from Cadillac Mi
thanks Justintime! :)
I just love watching you, listening to you sing and hearing you play. I just found one of those hidden gems channel. So nice to meet you! Woohoo!!
Oh my I am soooo happy I found you. I have been trying to play my dobro from a book 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Now I can learn from you I do sooooo much better from actual visual thanks for your videos. God Bless
Sounds amazing
Great beginner lesson. I wanna start playing resonator/dobro and simple things like this help a lot. So if you have more of this, I’m in!
Hey Evert! Here's a whole playlist of lessons and more on the way. *bit.ly/WoodshedLessons* Let me know if there's anything specific you wanna learn. :)
I would like more beginner dobro lessons
I taught myself guitar. I'm 75 year old average player. I would love to learn dobro. Thanks
I enjoyed your video very much.
I want to learn dobro so bad. Thanks for the great easy to follow lesson!
you got it! :)
Hey Abbie! I have been playing 5 string Banjo for 10+ years, you are inspiring me want to go out and get one.
Your are just a peach, you present the instrument very well. Thanks!!!!
aw thanks! You're already set with the picks, so nothing to lose! And dobro is a nice double for the banjo - so much sustain you can play fewer notes and breathe for a minute! :)
Certainly got me going straightaway and will practice and vary the application of the note sequence to try and get other bluesy riffs. It’s a brilliant start to playing Dobro, maybe even more immediate than the Joe Stoebenau Dobro tutor book I bought off Amazon!! When I’m more confident I will try your other videos. Thank you so much!
I just have my son a dobro... Your video has launched him! Thank you for your light and easy manner!
Great picking. 👏👍🇨🇦
Love your simplistic tutorial. Pleaseeee make moree on open G tuning. So that I can make sense of the chords and scales and all the different chord inversions. I have no idea how to use everything in open tunings.
You got it Adian - just made one on getting started (tuning, gear) and rhythm for this song, but I've got ideas for more in G.
I want all your lessons that was awesome 😎
very cool,,,thanks from Sweden
yay! thanks Peter!
Love the rhythm lesson on that
sweet! I just filmed one today, I'll link to it here when it's posted
here ya go! great handle by the way, dobroman :) ruclips.net/video/IhAs77iNiEQ/видео.html
Great video. Thanks
Just watched, great lesson ! Now I have to go try it ,you really put the fun in it.
Hey Jon, thanks for watching!
Very good opener for those not familiar with Dobro mechanics and always playing standard electric Guitars.
I think I'm "hooked"!
haha YAY!
I’m a uke player, and recently injured my left hand, so my Uke playing is temporarily off limits; however, I have a resonator uke that I tuned to an open G (g b d g) and I’ve been playing it in my lap like a dobro. It’s scratching my musical itch, but is proving to be quite challenging. Your video is helpful in that I’m a very visual learner and watching your hands work the instrument has given me something to focus on with my playing. I know scales for uke in standard tuning, but not for any open tunings. I’m hoping your videos might help there as the two instruments are cousins. You make it look so effortless! :)
Uke is super fun. I'm so glad you're trying slide too! Cousins is right! :)
Abbie, I'm so glad that I found your channel, my Brother gave me a square neck Dobro for my Birthday. I love this 3rd to 5th frets lesson, and then being told to just go play with it. You should get together with Rhett Shull as he loves to play Open G on both Acoustic and Electric guitar. I'm subbed, thanks for a great lesson!
Thank you Abbie ! I just began to play dobro, and this makes it sound quite simply.
You are great, I've been playing Dobro for many years, great video for beginners. ❤
Great! This is exactly what I needed for now, thank you!
Well now I need to get a dobro!
Thanks again🎶🙋
I hope to be able to find a teacher in my area (Hubbard , Ohio) & purchase as good a guitar as my finances will allow ! Enjoyed your Video instructions.
I agree strumming lessons would be awesome. I’ve played acoustic all my life but never got that good because I couldn’t stretch my fingers to make god sounding bar chords. I think this instrument might just be my answer to everything
Yes! Let’s work on that strumming pattern! Sounds great!
Just keep expanding on the available pentatonic notes, for us till we got more than enough notes. Ya, and more than the blues sound. You know those lines that George Harrison would play that would sound so pretty they would bring a tear... like in Alvin Lee's The Bluest Blue.
Thanks
thanks ❕ i bought myself a super nice custom sq neck resonator many years ago thinkin i could play it upright whitch i dō , occasionally , now i have incentive to revisit it in the right direction ❕🐊 🐸 🍀
Thanks!
These are great!
First time I've watched you and you are Awesome! Just picked up a dobro and I love it. Hoping to learn from you.
Liked and Subbed! Clear lesson thank you!
Awesome, thank you!
I do believe a Angeles sing like a Dobro sounds. I miss it when im busy and sometimes just sit and stare at it. Ok im freaking myself out now lol. Very nice lesson 👌
DOBRO!!! They're sure pretty to stare at but sounds even better if ya pick it up & play it too. ;)
@@AbbieGardnerdobrosinger lol Amen sister.
Fabulous. Love this.
Amazing stuff. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing! More please!
Totally! I'm making a new CD right now, but I'll be back to making more of these videos soon! :)
Thank you
I know this is an old video but I would absolutely like a lesson on right hand stuff.
Great lesson, @AbbieGardner !! Looking forward to applying your great insight to my upright round-neck reso slide playing. RUclips turned me onto your channel due to my watching history. Was surprised to see that you're in Jersey City - we're in West Central NJ. Hopefully my wife and I can get out to see you perform soon!
sweet! Yeah I think a lot of this applies to round neck too. See ya on the Turnpike! hahaa
Really cool lesson. Thank you!
That was great. Very clear instructions thanks.
yay awesome!
just subbed. My grandpa left me his dobro and i am learning how to play it....slowly but surely.
awesome!