Mickey Adams book

[ossettjohn]

Having watched a lot of Mickey Adams videos on YouTube, I am tempted to order his book. Unfortunately it costs $100 and has to come from US. Does anyone else have any experience of this book and is it worth the money (and the wait!)?

[Paul Brennan]

Hi John. I haven't seen Mickey Adams' book. However, $100 does strike me as rather a lot to ask. I think you'll find it hard to beat ye olde bible - Winnie Winston's Pedal Steel Guitar. Still available for a fraction of that price. Ally this with the wealth of YouTube instruction available these days and there's more than enough to get you started. My advice is to spend the hundred quid on some one to one tuition with a good teacher.

[Nick Bidmade]

Agree completely with Peter's comments about Mickey Adams's book. I bought it second hand from Peter only a couple of weeks ago - so checking regularly the 'for sale' section of the steelies website can pay off.
Having spent a couple of weeks using the book, I have to say that if you are going to get into psg seriously then it is THE book to go for because the techniques and exercises are invaluable for increasing knowledge, understanding and pleasure. WW's book is fine as far as it goes but in my opinion it doesn't have a lot to say about practice techniques, fingering, blocking etc (and I also think that there are not enough 'graduated' exercises in WWs book - some of the tunes are very difficult to master. IMO!
Cheaper (and great fun) are the tabs produced by Erv Niehaus on the US Steel Guitar Forum - $1 per time via PayPal. All the country 'standards' - I Fall to Pieces, Makin' Believe, Together Again, Hank Williams - fairly easy to play. I haven't opened the WW book in weeks!