DESCRIPTION:
Another cool song from Neil Young's Harvest album of 1972 that has a simple, easy to play pedal steel guitar part. Here I play Ben Keith's parts, which are basically pads, to a short backing track that I made so I could play the parts in time.

Similar to my Old Man video, the pedal steel part by Ben Keith for Heart of Gold is very restrained.

A great song to practise volume pedal control to.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Great care and effort has been expended on trying to ensure that the steel part is accurate. However there is always a risk that what I am demonstrating could be wrong in terms of note, in terms of position of the steel bar, in terms of which strings are plucked. I could have been suffering from slight deafness on the day of recording or I was feeling off because the wife was nagging me again. This video represents the best that I could do after researching the original recording and any available footage. Unless I was standing right next to the player and videotaping the performance, there’s no way I can accurately say for certain that what I play is perfectly accurate to what the original player did. Do not assume my demonstration as the final word, cast in stone-like. I could be wrong. Nobody is perfect, least of all me. Viewers should exercise caution when watching the video and they would be well advised to check for themselves against the original recording and any associated footage. I may be playing it wrong but you may be playing it right. Isn’t this fun, learning things together?