Hello - I have been playing pedal steel guitar since 1977, on the road in the 80's and in bands even today. Country/rock cover bands in the 80's and wedding/convention bands the last 20 years, These bands were only 15-20% country. I added a lap steel in the early 80's to give me a slide guitar type sound for the non-country songs. Which worked "OK" but I never learned the neck and really just relied on the same few slides over and over. I'm a Lowell George, David Lyndley, Joe Walsh fan. At the same time, as a steel player, I mainly played country type stuff so throughout my career I never felt comfortable soloing over a song in a minor key, on pedal or lap steel.  A few years ago I stopped playing with a band full time and got into some interesting bands that would allow me to play their gigs "whenever I wanted", as I was traveling a lot, so I started playing blues and other type music and started working on minor scales and the relationship between minor and major chords/scales. I love Robben Ford and started working with his instructional videos, which were difficult and didn't have basics or help me learn my neck. But while searching for his videos I found Robert, and immediately related to his Soloing using chord tones. As a pedal steel player, most of the chords played are triads using chord tones, so this made sense to me. My goal is to become proficient on the lap steel and play gigs with it and not my pedal steel. With the little time I have put in so far (three-four weeks of the YouTube videos) I can see that this will work. I am practicing daily.  Robert/Clayton, I could use some direction on which lesson path to take. When I start clicking on lessons I get so much info I am not sure which to do and sometimes can't find the last one I worked on. I need the basics and have done the finding notes on the neck and simple soloing with chord tones.  Also, I have to say I can already tell this will help my pedal steel playing and worked on your Oscar Peterson Lick on my C6 neck, very cool.  

Thanks guys.      

Mark,

San Antonio, Texas