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These are the posts thar bring me to this forum! Thank you so much. I'm enjoying this newfound music. Merry Christmas! Joe

@bdp24

In this video, Fishell explains and demonstrates how the pedal steel guitar works:

Crazy! Maybe this is the best stringed instrument for drummers to learn, given that it requires coordinating so much at once!  

On the other hand Stuart, bass is the natural partner to drums. In the Crowell & Harris clip, the bass player is at the back of the stage with the drummer, right where bassists belong.

@bdp24

I didn’t mean in terms of how well the instruments partner/function together. I was thinking in terms of the fact that playing drums seems, like playing pedal steel, to require coordinating lots of things at onc. By comparison, guitar and bass, not so much. 

Good point Stuart. One facet of learning to drum is limb independence, all four playing independently from each other (like rubbing your belly while patting your head, times two). I myself am impressed by piano players, who have to learn independence of all ten fingers (or is it eight fingers and two thumbs? ).