I got my Dobro at 15 I learned by Josh Graves.. the father of the dobro guitar.. he was not only teacher but a dear friend. He took a young girl and me a gift of the love of this instrument. My guitar is signed by EE DOPERA. Signed 1973.. on my guitar on the wood.. I met him in 1972 he was 85.. what a wonderful man. He was happy to see a young girl play his dobro guitar.. I am grateful for also my daddy who started us kids in a bluegrass singing family band.. Watkins family... I'm one of the girls.. Kate.. i play bass too .. i play guitar and sing. I love this music.. it was my daddies dream❤. Thank you Kate Watkins Jarvis

@katherinejarvis7302

7 ай бұрын

I've played this Wonderful Dobro guitar over 50 years.. what a blessing ❣️🌹🌹💓💯

@shobud7561

5 ай бұрын

Josh is the uncle Knoxville Tennessee own Ted Graves. Ted brother is a well-known Dobro player in Nashville.

@shobud7561

5 ай бұрын

How can I take lesson from you?

Laura Carrivics’ dobro sounds beautiful and looks as beautiful. And L.C. Speaks and plays very fluently.

It's nice to hear someone speak so beautifully and explain so concisely exactly what the dobro does . I play bass but I'm learning steel guitar now. Great video

I have the steel bar, brass slide, and glass slide from Amazon. They were sold together for cheap. My mom gifted me one of these by Fender. I am learning on it now. Thank you for posting this

@chasbodaniels1744

9 ай бұрын

Good for you on playing a new instrument. Enjoy the experience!

WOW! The most beautiful resonator I have ever seen! Congratulations!

The concept of the dobro has always been a difficult one for me and this is a great beginners video. Thanks Laura, you made it very clear and easy to follow.

Thank you!! I JUST got my first dobro, and i've wanted one for FOREVER. So you're my very first instructional video for it. Well thought out and explained. Great job!

Very well explained and demonstrated Laura.

Great intro to playing the dobro, Laura! Just what I was looking for. Well thought out and delivered presentation!

Very well explained! I just started Dobro and I really enjoyed playing along to your video. You really made it easy to learn. Please keep doing tutorials like this one. 😊✨🎶

Thanks Laura for sharing this.

Thanks, Ms Laura. Amazing to know how many hits that go with that tune. Magic work here, have tuned into a few of the Band's songs, like my blue grass - top stuff.

Excellent intro, Laura! Very well done, indeed.

Terrific work. Many thanks.

awesome! I just ordered my first Dobro today. I've been playing bluegrass on Guitar for just under 5 years now and this short intro made perfect sense. Can't wait to start playing around with it

@midnightskyracer2974

8 ай бұрын

That is so great to hear!

@johnhipp604

7 ай бұрын

​can I ask you something

@xxYetterxx

7 ай бұрын

Sure, whats up?@@johnhipp604

@xxYetterxx

6 ай бұрын

@@johnhipp604 yep. What's up?

@johnhipp604

6 ай бұрын

Can you be my friend

Wow Laura great job so simple keep it coming Love it I'm just starting out on my Paul Paul beard dobro thank you 🌹👍

beautiful instrument demonstrated by a beautiful player 👍

Perfect theory lesson as well. Thank you!

Very nice explanation, and what a wonderful idea to transform a standard guitar to a dobro style, i'm gonna dive a bit into that, thanks!

Thanks, great explanation

Thank you for sharing. Good presentation. 🎸🎸🎸

Excellent introduction to the instrument!

Cool. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Very nice to see a Lapson Ressophonic Slide Guitar explaned and played so well.🎸

Excellent video !!!

Thanks for the lesson

rhanks so much, after watching your review I bought a round neck, it is great!

Lovely sounding instrument. Also the wood on the front is beautiful. Like the boiling surface of a star made of creamy coffee.

I play the Dobro and it's a great instrument!

Brilliant!

Pretty crazy figuring on that guitar - mad quilting all over the top and sides. Beautiful!

Thanks I going to try playing one a bit 👍💥

This was very informative. I learned a lot. Greetings from Sweden.

very helpful and nicely presented

I've been thinking of picking up the guitar or some sort of stringed instrument for years. I've been leaning towards a Dobro because I've always liked slide guitar. I think you've encouraged me to actually go out and buy one.

Lovely!

Beautiful ❤

Love it maybe someday after the ukelele and ubass I will learn that one too

Great video

Rushed...by 100% usable! I watched your ring finger on your string hand and get how you incorporated the single plucking in conjunction with the strumming! 😉 TY...I play guitar, fiddle, Irish flute/whistle, Native flutes, bodhran, appalachian dulcimer/strumstick, etc. TY

Absolutely beautiful - and the Dobro and playing wasn't bad either! 🤍😜✌

As a guitar player who learnt to plays in an open tuning, i also slide, loved the sound of that. Sure thats something i could take to.

Nice musical instrument !!!

Love them Blue Chip thumbpicks and Tipton bars.

Great picking ❤

Excellent

Nice intro to the instrument. After I discovered the existance of Bluegrass music a few years ago I went down that rabbit hole. Looking at this channel I find Midnight Skyracer is a Bluegrass band. I'll be having a look at the other videos and giving a listen to the bands music.

Waw, very interesting and informative, I shall look at your other stuff

The quilting is unbelievable.

Brilliant 👍🇮🇪

Pretty cool

How adorable.

this i like , going to build one 😉😊

"So you can see why we just call it a Dobro" Classic Oh Guitar at the end Amazing

Okay I found this by accident... SO FUCKIN' HAPPY! I have an injury on my finger that makes it very painful to play with my left hand. Thought I'd have to switch to a left-handed guitar, but THIS defeats the problem!! Thank you for making this-- I'm getting a dobro.

@shobud7561

5 ай бұрын

You don't need an instrument. You need a bar of soap stuck in your filthy mouth 😮

It's amazing how my tolerance for dull instructional videos increases proportionally to the youth and beauty of the instructor.

THANK YOU- I don't know if I enjoy building guitars or playing them.

Thanks

Status Quo did a great cover of honky tonk angel / wild side of life, Thanks Laura, interesting bit of kit !

Very interesting Subscribed

I have one of those extension nuts and a parlor guitar, I think I'll try the D tuning like yours is that sounds good.

"I play the fiddle in the band as well as this.." what a lady!

Just bought one. Started out on a slide cigar box, next logical step.

I didn’t know the dobro made it back across the pond. You’re pretty handy with that thing.

very good cliff jones lesson to be learned you tube

Very nice resonator

Also i put slick stainless steel strings on mine love the sound, so close to a pedal steel

GREAT... you've created ONE new Dobro enthusiast , and FIFTY SICK AS A PIG 😭😭😭😭

Cool.

Dobro is good!

Liked and subbed

Thank you for the video. I'm curious if there is a significnt difference in tone between a resonator played on the lap and a resonator played as a traditional guitar? If there is a difference, what is it? Thanks again.....

Give a tune out🌈sounds good,

I´ve got many steels, most of them that I have made myself (well fixed rather sawed of the ends and such) and I bought a steel like you have got there but its the one I like the least the reason being are the ends, makes it pretty hard to do forwards slants and backwards slant, it can easily fly out of ones hand doing that. That round green steel bar looks cool though, bakelight ?

Aha... thanks for this. I've heard people mention the Dobro and thought maybe it was the same as a National guitar (e.g. made famous by Dire Straits Brothers in Arms album cover). So I guess they both have metal resonators, but the signature National is all metal, while the Dobro has a wooden body.

I suppose anyone can call anything whatever they want and maybe I'm wrong but I don't hear many underhand blues resonator guitarists calling it a dobro. It's really more about the technique and tuning more than it is about the sound but in GENERAL, dobros are overhand played. And they're used for country, bluegrass, folk etc. Resonator guitars are in GENERAL, played underhand and used for blues. They're also more likely to use a spider bridge but from what I hear, some dobros do have a biscuit bridge. Also, I'm only just learning about dobro style but from what I gather, they use a tuning they call open G and it's tuned to a G chord. But blues also uses a tuning that they call open G, also a G chord, but it's a different tuning. So G B D G B D for dobro and for blues it's D G D G B D. The first is easier for melodies and major keys and the latter makes a driving sound easier and is bluesey.

Thanks for that introductory video :) what is the open d tuning you use at the end? I want to try a bit of dobro style on my acoustic to see if I like it before splashing out on an actual dobro. Can I use D,G,D,G,B,D like banjo g tuning?

How do you set up,this instrument in order to play it as a lapsteel?

What a lovely Queeny

Well done with the video. Ive played guitar for 40 years . Always wanted to come around to playing lap steel . Hope i get around to it soon .. take care

Do you have to be advanced at playing guitar before jumping into this style, or slide playing in general?

If you wish to experience a master at work playing the dobro, watch The Pedersens.

Well explained! Is that quilted Mahogany? 😮 Or stained quilted Maple? Either way, that is a gorgeous instrument! Where can we hear you playing?

@midnightskyracer2974

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! It's maple, but stained darker. It is lovely and I'm very lucky to have it. Lots of videos of me playing it on this channel

The bar is generally referred to as a steel in my experience. I prefer the one with a rounded tip end.

Thanks! Honky Tonk Angel!

What specifically is Open D tuning for dobro?

I always wanted to play a dobro but have never tried. I do play a regular guitar

Is that the best shape for playing on the lap. Seems odd to make it the same shape as a normal guitar. Is that because it's designed to be played in two positions?

Good lord, i bet your pleased with that.

Do you ever get confused mentally switching back from regular guitar tuning to the dobro tuning?

The name "dobro" comes from a contraction/corruption of the Dopyera Brothers, the original makers of the guitar.

@TomMarvan

6 ай бұрын

And that contraction/corruption means “good” in nearly every Slavic language (for example, in Czech, “dobro” means “good” in English!).

That's a gorgeous instrument. Is that Fire Maple? What does it cost?

@midnightskyracer2974

8 ай бұрын

Quilted maple, yes. It's was made by Rayco resophonics in Canada nearly 15 years ago now - I'm not sure what their current pricing is but they make beautiful instruments!

Ohhh hiw i would love to have a dobro yo

Is that an old Harmony behind your shoulder on the viewers right?

dobro from Slovakia

I’ve always wondered, why do they put frets on a dobro. You could make it a lot less expensive if you just painted on lines.

WHAT BRAND IS THE FIRST ONE LAURA ?

A 25 pound slide sounds very heavy…. Sorry ;) Great video! You have inspired me to pull mine out of the closet.

How can you play non major chords? Looks like the bar only allows you to move between major chords.

@midnightskyracer2974

8 ай бұрын

There are few places on the neck where you can find partial chords, a couple of full minor chords available too. It isn't always possible though, so often you just have to work around it and imply the chord with a choice note or two rather than play full chords. Maybe I''ll do another video on it when I get the time. Thanks for the idea!

Cool,well done,ihave a 1996 K A Y