Sweet Dreams - Pedal Steel Guitar Cover by Mathew Jut

[GuitarMathew]

Hi all,

Here is my arrangement of Sweet Dreams, such a beautiful song!



Best regards,

Mathew Jut

[Danny Mitchell]

You're absolutely right, Mathew. That is a beautiful song, and that was a beautiful arrangement of it


PS- have you gone and jumped the broomstick? If so, congratulations

[Zebedee]

You had an ideal opportunity there (for 1 1/2 minutes) to use fills in between the melody, which after all is what most steel playing is, but you did nothing ????

That's when you should be experimenting, seeing if you can come up with something off the top of your head, you'll get all the gigs when you can do that, cos singers like it when steel players play in the gaps (and not when they're singing), and singers call the shots

[Zebedee]

Sorry for the harshness of my last post, I do come across as being a bit blunt sometimes.

Here's some fills to demonstrate what I mean, albeit the fiddle doesn't leave much room for steel fills

https://picosong.com/wKUJJ

[Danny Mitchell]

Lovely stuff Richard
And, sage advice. Constructive criticism is a good thing.

[Barry]

Very nice Instrumental Matthew!!
I like your style.

[hickenjr]

Lovely stuff Richard
And, sage advice. Constructive criticism is a good thing.

Of course constructive criticism is a good thing.

Much better than being booed off stage whilst having bottles lobbed at ya!

[GuitarMathew]

You had an ideal opportunity there (for 1 1/2 minutes) to use fills in between the melody, which after all is what most steel playing is, but you did nothing ????

That's when you should be experimenting, seeing if you can come up with something off the top of your head, you'll get all the gigs when you can do that, cos singers like it when steel players play in the gaps (and not when they're singing), and singers call the shots

I see what you were saying, but I did not fill in because it was an instrumental. If it was a song with a singer, you are correct then you need to fill in the gaps. So in my situation it wasn't needed because otherwise I would play over another instruments which is not the intention. In my opinion, especially with an instrumental, less is more.

You're absolutely right, Mathew. That is a beautiful song, and that was a beautiful arrangement of it


PS- have you gone and jumped the broomstick? If so, congratulations

Thank you sir, not yet. It is a kind of a friendship ring we can say ha!

Very nice Instrumental Matthew!!
I like your style.

Thank you Barry!

Lovely stuff Richard
And, sage advice. Constructive criticism is a good thing.

Of course constructive criticism is a good thing.

Much better than being booed off stage whilst having bottles lobbed at ya!

True story!