The Guitarist’s Guide to Lap Steel is designed specifically for guitar players who want to transition easily and confidently into lap steel. Instead of starting from scratch, this course shows you how your existing guitar skills—muscle memory, fingerpicking technique, knowledge of tunings, and feel for blues and roots music—give you a major head start.

You’ll learn foundational techniques, riffs, expressive phrasing, and complete songs with play-along backing tracks. You’ll even learn how to convert your standard guitar into a lap steel so you can get started right away.

By the end, you’ll feel confident, expressive, and fluent on the lap steel, equipped with riffs, songs, and the musical vocabulary to continue growing as a multi-instrumentalist.

Who This Series is for

• Guitar players curious about lap steel

• Guitarists who want to add new tones and textures to their music

• Slide guitar players wanting to expand into lap-style playing

• Musicians looking to broaden skills into multi-instrumental territory

No lap steel required to get started — I'll show you how to convert a regular guitar into a lap steel.

The Transformation

By the end of the series, students will:

• Understand how lap steel works and how it differs from guitar

• Know their way around tunings, string gauges, and setup

• Master the fundamentals of left-hand bar control and muting

• Develop clean, expressive right-hand picking and muting

• Play riffs and complete songs using voice-like vibrato and phrasing

• Build confidence improvising with the Lap Steel

• Feel empowered and equipped to continue their journey as multi-instrumentalists