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Topic: Dragon Steel Tuning |
Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 18 Apr 2012 6:16 pm |
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Hi Bob,
Hope all is well for you?
Attached is the tuning I now use on my SD-10
The interesting two things are the E to F# on the RKR where I have used it for 30 years.
The other is the third pedal change I developed over the past year.
First I just raised the high B 1+1/2 steps for the dominant 7th to get a neat lick for blues type sounds.
Now have added to that pedal the second string lower to D.
That using the 2+3 pedals together gives a strange but cool sounding D6+9 across the neck and works nice with the RKR 9th to 3rd.
Anyway knowing you like to try changes I thought you may like to see this?
Best wishes,
Andy
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Rich Peterson
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Moorhead, MN
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Posted 18 Apr 2012 9:25 pm
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I see lots of interesting chords in there.
BTW The inlay work on your SD-10 is stunning. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 18 Apr 2012 10:47 pm Dragon Steel
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Thanks Rich,
Mark Giles should get the most credit even though we did do the inlays...
Lots of fun with this tuning and that third pedal is a gas.
Before I had that Franklin change but it was too much like other available sounds already on the steel E9th.
Best wishes,
Andy
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 18 Apr 2012 11:08 pm More on that pedal
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BTW, at first I had the change on pedal 4 where it only gave me a few hot licks and a dominant 7th.
Then I saw that if I moved it to 3rd pedal it would work well with the 2nd pedal.
Moving that change to the 3rd pedal opened up a whole bunch of new ideas as both chords and licks.
That other change now on the 4th pedal is used with the RKL as a B6th tuning and was never used with another pedal.
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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