Need Tuning Sugestions

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

I have a Sho-Bud Maverick S10 3+1 that I'm setting up for a friend(lefty),that plays a mean blues guitar and would like some ideas.
Maybe just the floors for now.

Thanks....Bill

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Bill Ford

chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

C6:



         1   2    3     K


1  G


2  E         F


3  C     D


4  A     B              Bb


5  G              F#


6  E         Eb


7  C


8  A                     Bb


9  G         F    F#


10(E or C)        D

[This message was edited by chas smith on 24 October 2003 at 06:53 PM.]

Bobby Lee · From: Cloverdale, California, USA

I think that the stock copedent for a Sho-Bud Maverick is something like this:



     p1  p2  p3   k


F#


D#               -D


G#       +A


E            +F#


B    +C#     +C#


G#       +A


F#


E                -D#


D


B    +C#

I have one that only has two pedals and one knee lever (LKL!), and this is how I tune it:



[tab]


     LKL   p1  p2


F#


D#               


G#             +A


E     +F


B          +C#


G#             +A


F#


E     +F


D


B          +C#

That's pretty specialized, though. If he's really a blues player, he would probably enjoy the Sacred Steel E7 tuning:



    p1  p2  p3   k


F#


G#      +A


E               +F#


D


B  +C#


G#      +A


E               +F#


E           -D


B  +C# 


E

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Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

Thanks,
He is really a pretty good blues player thats intrested in PSG/slide,plays great bottleneck Stevey Ray Vaughn style.

I think I may go with sacred steel,is this the one Robert R uses?

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Bill Ford

Bobby Lee · From: Cloverdale, California, USA

Robert Randolph plays 13 strings with lots of pedals and knee levers. The copedent above is a subset of what he uses. It should get your guy started in that direction, though.

I just occurred to me that it might be sort of tricky putting a lower on a pedal on a Maverick. You might have to swap p3 and the knee lever. That doesn't compromise the tuning much, but having the E to F# on a lever has some real advantages.

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Bobby Lee - email: quasar@b0b.com - gigs - CDs, Open Hearts
Sierra Session 12 (E9), Williams 400X (Emaj9, D6), Sierra Olympic 12 (C6add9),
Sierra Laptop 8 (D13), Fender Stringmaster (E13, A6),
Roland Handsonic, Line 6 Variax

[This message was edited by Bobby Lee on 25 October 2003 at 09:08 AM.]

Scott Swartz · From: St. Louis, MO

I have a neck set up on my D-10 that might be of interest, I use it for exactly the type of blues playing you are discussing.

Its a G6 tuning EGBDEGBDEG, which can also be thought as E minor pentatonic.

If the guy is used to playing slide on a standard tuned guitar, strings 2457 on this tuning are identical to 1234 on the 6 string guitar.

I then add a single lever G-G#, which transforms it to a E7 tuning E-G#-B-D-E-G#-B-D-E-G.

Here's a thread on it
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum5/HTML/004545.html

Key pedals would raise G to A for the 5th pentatonic note, D to Es, B to Cs, and E to Fs.

The G-G# lever is really cool, gives smooth sliding thirds like the F lever does on E9, or for that matter the C-C# on the typical C6 tuning.

Its certainly not for everyone, but might work for him.

You will need to use a meantone tuning for the G6 "side" and E7 "side" to both be in tune, email me for the offsets if interested, have to get them out of the tuner.

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

Scott,
Thanks for your input,I copied the info from the other thread.This is all greek to me but the friend I'm helping with this will understand more what everyone is saying.

Thanks again to everyone...BF

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Bill Ford

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