An Introduction to the Dobro with Laura Carrivick 

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

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

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

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!

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

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. 😊✨🎶

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

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

Very well explained and demonstrated Laura.

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.

Thanks, great explanation

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

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

beautiful instrument demonstrated by a beautiful player 👍

Terrific work. Many thanks.

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

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

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

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 for the lesson

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

Excellent intro, Laura! Very well done, indeed.

Thanks Laura for sharing this.

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.

Excellent introduction to the instrument!

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

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

Excellent video !!!

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

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

Thank you for sharing. Good presentation. 🎸🎸🎸

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.

Thanks I going to try playing one a bit 👍💥

Cool. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

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.

Brilliant 👍🇮🇪

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

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

Pretty cool

Great video

The quilting is unbelievable.

Perfect theory lesson as well. Thank you!

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.

Brilliant!

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

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

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.

Lovely!

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.

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

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

How adorable.

very helpful and nicely presented

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

Beautiful ❤

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

Thanks

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

Very interesting Subscribed

Beautiful girl plays beautiful music on beautiful instrument - it was pleasure to hear this record... although I can only play on nerves. Thanks a lot for your performance.

Great picking ❤

Excellent

Love them Blue Chip thumbpicks and Tipton bars.

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

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

Nice musical instrument !!!

this i like , going to build one 😉😊

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

very good cliff jones lesson to be learned you tube

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

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?

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

Cool.

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.

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

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

Liked and subbed

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

Dobro is good!

What specifically is Open D tuning for dobro?

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.

Very nice resonator

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

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 ?

What a lovely Queeny

Dobro also mean "Yes" in Jugoslavia....

Lovely… I play a dobro, but not a lap version…

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?

Give a tune out🌈sounds good,

WHAT BRAND IS THE FIRST ONE LAURA ?

Ohhh hiw i would love to have a dobro yo

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

Beautiful instrument, does it have an only fans page?

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.....

Who built that dobro...beautiful wood. You made me nervous holding that bar over that guitar top. Iv seen too many dobros with dents on the tops.

Good lord, i bet your pleased with that.

is that a dobro or a mosorite

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