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Music With MarkStart here if you just got your dobro, or you're new to playing slide with the guitar flat on your lap. Tuning to open G, playing in tune with the bar, warm-ups, your first rolls and two songs to play along with. Every lesson is free with a free account, and Tuning plays with no login in the Dobro Starter Kit.
The dobro is a resonator guitar played on your lap with a steel bar, so bar control, intonation, picks and rolls carry over to lap-style playing. Every lesson here is in open G tuning. Lap steel for beginners: what the dobro teaches you.
Every lesson is free with a free account: all 29, beginner to advanced. The Dobro Starter Kit adds an open-G tuning chart and the tab for your first roll. No card needed.
Get free lessonsSee the Starter KitFollow the Beginner lessons in order: tune to open G, learn to play in tune with the bar (intonation), warm up, then learn forward and backward rolls.
You Are My Sunshine, in the key of C, and Cripple Creek, in the key of G. Both are in the Beginner level.
Finger picks and a steel (the bar). A capo is handy but optional.
The dobro is played on your lap with a steel bar, so bar control, intonation, picks and rolls carry over. Every lesson is in open G tuning; there's no C6, pedal steel or electric lap steel instruction.
Yes. Every lesson is free with a free account. The free Dobro Starter Kit also has three lessons that play with no login (Tuning, Intermediate Rolls and Harmonics), an open-G tuning chart and the tab for your first roll. No card needed.