Pedal Steel Licks

[Tom Spaulding <tspauldi@gibson.com>]

>
>bar strings 1 and 2 with the second finger (middle finger) of the left 
>hand
>and then,
>
>place the first finger at the third string one fret lower and bend it up. 
> 
>
Or...In the key of C, place your 4th finger on the 8th fret of the E
string, your 3rd finger on the 8th fret of the B string and your 2nd finger
on the 7th fret of the G string. You bend the G string up a whole step,
raising it from a 2nd to the Major 3rd. While that bend is held, bend the B
string up a whole step from G to A. Hold both bends (it is hard, at first)
and pick the high E string, then the bent B string, then pull off the high
C note (on the E string) to a Bb note fretted by your first finger. Now
pick and release the B string and then pick and release the G string. It's
kinda steelish, kinda Jeff Beckish and is sure to impress the guys down at
the music store this Saturday afternoon. 

Tom "Jes' soakin' up some local color" Spaulding