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Topic: Need some ideas on lap steel tuning |
Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 7:28 am |
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| I'm playing lap steel one day a week and it's about half traditional country and half rock and blues so I'm thinking maybe an E7 or E6 tuning would be good for this. I use the cat can guitar from Duane Marrs on a lot of this stuff in the G tuning but want something a little fatter and more suited for the rock and blues tunes we do. What I need is some six string tunings for E6 and E7 and the string gauges. Any help would be appreciated! |
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Jay Fagerlie
From:
Lotus, California, USA
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Chuck Christensen
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 8:15 am Tunings
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| Frank, For 6 string E7th you can tune top to bottom E-B-G#-E-D-B In the 20's & 30's Dick McIntire changed the bottom 3 strings to D-B-E. For E6th 6 string I would use top to bottom E-C#-B-G#-E-C#. |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 9:34 am
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| Jay I'm familiar with the Diatonic tuning and I would not attempt that one! That is great for Hawaiian stuff but I'm looking for something in the country, rock and blue modes. My old friend John Bechtel used the C Diatonic on his middle neck on his T-8 Fender for the Byrd stuff and it amazing but I don't want to learn an all new tuning like that and I don't think it would fit either. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 9:54 am
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Frank, you can't go wrong with C6/A7. You can play anything on it.
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 1:45 pm
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| That's one John used to use too. I never understood that tuning but can you play rock and blues with it? |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2013 2:13 pm
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| Mike Neer wrote: |
| Frank, you can't go wrong with C6/A7. You can play anything on it. |
Yes, Frank. ANYTHING!! It is an amazingly versatile tuning. The blues has definitely been done very well with it. But there are many styles of blues.
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