Any Dobro players out there?

[dragfish]

I've been messing with learning to play Dobro off and on for a while and wonder if anyone out there plays, or better yet-instructs?
For anyone that isn't sure what I'm talking about, it'd\s technically called a resonator guitar and is usually a blue-grass instrument.

 

[Andrew]

Square neck or round neck? Round neck is more like a regular acoustic and is meant to be strummed or picked like an acoustic. Square neck has a nut at least an inch high or longer as has very high action and is only meant to be played with a slide. Most dobro players will use a slide on either though. Lots of open tunings also for a dobro. They sound much better with open tunings rather than the standard tuning of a regular acoustic. I've got one some wheres around here. I lose count sometimes.

 

[dragfish]

It's a square neck, played lap style. The nice thing about them is you can strum it without using the bar and have a G chord, and then move up the neck and easily hit all your chord scales with the bar and not picking out individual strings.
I'd just like to sit down wiyh a dobro player or instructor and get a little more fine tuned in picking styles.
Once you learn the chords playing lead parts or picking individual strings (using the bar) is like playing lead guitar with one finger on the guitar neck!
Anyone not familiar with a dobro can look up Jerry Douglas (who plays with Allison Kraus) and see how incredible this instrument can sound.