We break each section into digestible parts and we get you playing and rocking out in the fastest and most efficient manner. We make learning as fast and easy as possible. So you don't have to keep hitting the rewind and pause buttons. This makes it easy to follow along and start making music.Īll rhythm and lead riffs and licks are broken down and explained and demonstrated at slow speed and regular speed. So you see all the licks and chords written out in tablature on the screen. Portions of this text are copied from the biography published by Phil Burton, released under the GFDL.And learning is easy with our ON-SCREEN TABLATURE.
^ "Steel Guitarist Jernigan Performs at Gospel Opry" (Vol."Sky High Steel: Doug Jernigan Builds New Career" (Vol. ^ a b Haines, Rob Cantrell, Erica (November 1, 2012).^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Eastman, Bud (December 1, 1978).Doug Jernigan Plays Jazz Standards (2006).He achieved single-string delivery beyond mere riffs, but for complete tunes, with flowing, scorching speed. The hall of fame plaque reads:Ĭoncert, session and major recording artist, he has shared his knowledge and advanced the steel and dobro into country jazz. Jernigan was inducted into the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1994. He is a frequent performer on the Grand Ole Opry.
He has recorded with Betty Jean Robinson, Joe Paul Nichols and many other gospel music groups. : 36 In 1977, Jernigan became a Christian and began to play in church and still does today. : 132 Jernigan prefers the C6 tuning which is better for jazz, but says "I have to play the E9 in Nashville - you know, for making money".
: 132 What we were trying to do was to show what the steel guitar can be, by teaming up me, a pedal steel guitarist, with a jazz player of the caliber of someone like him". : 131 Jernigan said, "I explained to him that I was basically a country player. His interest in jazz led to record label ( Flying Fish) pairing him with jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli for a jazz album. Since then, he has been the featured artist on nine instrumental albums. In 1970 Ron Lashley of the Emmons Guitar Company produced Jernigan's first album, Uptown To Country. He played in a Nashville club called the "Demon's Den" where he developed the technique of playing at lightning fast speeds on single note solos that rivaled the speed of fiddles and banjos. One month after returning from Vietnam, he moved to Nashville to do recording session work and perform in clubs as a pedal steel sideman. : 130 He was drafted in 1965 into the United States Army and sent to Vietnam. He moved to Nashville after high school and played at various clubs.Īt 18, he moved to Georgia to play in clubs, then to Ohio to join guitarist Gary Adams with whom he recorded an album. : 132 He and a hometown friend, Clyde Kendricks, became interested in other genres including jazz he began playing standards such as " Tenderly" and " Moonlight in Vermont", learning some improvisation, which would serve him well later is his career. : 36 Playing career Īt age 16, Jernigan had been playing only basic county music with three chords. He said his most powerful influences were Emmons, Bud Isaacs and Jimmy Day.
: 36 By age fourteen, Jernigan was playing on the weekends at VFW and Legion Halls in the Pensacola area. : 36 Jernigan said, "I played that guitar until it just about fell apart". Emmons added another pedal (making nine), and tuned the necks to E9 and C6. : 36 Emmons invited him to bring his guitar to Emmons' house to get it customized to the "Nashville setup". : 36 Not long afterward, he attended a convention in Nashville where he met Buddy Emmons, who was nine years his senior. He received his first pedal steel guitar at age 12, a Fender 1000 double-neck. : 36 His father helped him learn " licks" from records by ear by lifting and replacing the phonograph needle for him until he could duplicate the recorded passage. : 36 When his teacher moved away, Jernigan's formal lessons ended. : 36 Together, they went through Nick Manoloff books for Spanish guitar and steel guitar. He said the lessons were simplified because his teacher really didn't know much about steel guitar, but he was a good musician who gave Jernigan a foundation in music theory. He took lessons using the Oahu method using tablature for about six months. : 36 When he was nine years old his father bought him a lap steel guitar. Jernigan was born in 1946 in Pensacola, Florida, to a family that was supportive of his musical talent, but were not musicians themselves.
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