microtonal cadenza for lap steel

back in the early '90s when i was working in a music store and teaching guitar, i had a lot of downtime to try instruments i normally wouldn't come across or couldn't afford.
One of these was a cheap lap steel and after a bit of experimenting with open micro-tunings and different playing techniques, i found out that if you dragged the rounded edge of the bullet slide over the surface of the strings you could achieve all manner of bizarre and seemingly virtuosic arpeggios.
On guitar, this technique is often called "sweep-picking" where the pick is operated in a kind of linked rest-stoke fashion by picking only down-strokes across adjacent strings that are (ostensibly) higher in pitch (how about closer to your feet than your face), and using only up-stokes on adjacent strings that are (again, ostensibly) lower in pitch, or more generically, closer to your face that they are to your feet.
The beauty of this hyper, faux sweep-picking on lap steel is that it's entirely as microtonal as you can either hear (and/or) imagine (and/or) execute. With a high gain and sloped EQ, you can achieve a pretty astonishing degree of fluidity and control....and ,fWiW (nothing), this kind of thing used to always bring guitarists shopping in the store flying around the corner to see what the hell was that being played on a guitar.....surprise ,surprise:

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