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Topic: E9 on 8-string lap
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Drew Howard
Member From: Mason, MI, U.S.A.
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posted 08 May 2002 04:19 PM
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I have a student (Hi, Gary!) who just got his first steel guitar, an 8-string Cougar.
He loves E9 pedal sounds and would like to replicate some of that sound and tuning on his lap steel. I recommended he use the top eight strings of an E9 string set (E-F#-G#-B-E-G#-D#-F#) and get busy with bar slants.Any of you no-pedals players ever tuned your lap this way? Any advice? thanks heaps,
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Rick Aiello
Member From: Berryville, VA USA
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posted 08 May 2002 04:41 PM
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I like... (lo to hi)G#(or E), B, D, E, F#, G#, B, E It is a quick change from C6/A7 A, C, C#, E, G, A, C, E and the string guages are correct if you use the low G#.[This message was edited by Rick Aiello on 08 May 2002 at 04:46 PM.] |
Pete Grant
Member From: Auburn, CA, USA
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posted 08 May 2002 05:12 PM
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Drew, I like what you said. You get a lot of the E9 sound out of that. Having the 1 2 3 of the scale in two places is great. And having the 7 there with the 1 2 3 on the top is really great. |
Pete Grant
Member From: Auburn, CA, USA
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posted 08 May 2002 10:58 PM
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That's also the top 8 strings on my 10-string dobro, except I tune it down to D. |
Brad Bechtel
Moderator From: San Francisco, CA
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posted 09 May 2002 08:38 AM
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I don't use that tuning myself, but listening to Pete Grant play pedal steel licks on his ten string Zephyr is really fascinating. Pete's D tuning seems to work really well on a resophonic guitar with ten strings.
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Erv Niehaus
Member From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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posted 09 May 2002 09:15 AM
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My favorite tunings were:
From hi to lo: E C# B G# E B G# E
and E C A G E C A G
On my triple neck, I used to tune the the other neck to an A high bass tuning with bass strings on the lower four.
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Doug Beaumier
Member From: Northampton, MA
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posted 09 May 2002 04:13 PM
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Drew,yes, I use that tuning (same as strings 1 through 8 of standard E9 PSG) on my quad Fender. It makes a lot of sense if you already play E9 PSG. And if your student ever wants to switch over to PSG he'll be half way there! On another neck I have an A6 tuning which is set up exactly like "pedals A & B down, and string 2 lowered 1/2 tone" on the pedal steel E9. Those 2 tunings work well together IMHO. I recently played a four hour gig on the quad and between those 2 tunings I was able to get about 75% of what I normally get on E9 pedal steel. ...or was that 25% / 75% the other way...?? 
Eadd9 1 F# .013
2 D# .015
3 G# .011
4 E .014
5 B .018P
6 G# .024W
7 F# .026
8 E .030
A6 (sus4)
1 F# .013
2 D .016
3 A .010
4 E .014
5 C# .017
6 A .020P
7 F# .026W
8 E .030
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