Barry Hyman
From:
upstate New York, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2015 6:50 pm |
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I've been playing pedal steel since 1972. Never played slide guitar or any other slide anything without pedals until recently. Last week, one of my adult students, who builds high-end lap steels as a sideline, gave me an 8-string prototype, E13 tuning. From thickest to thinnest, the strings are tuned to B, D, E, G#, B, C#, E, G#. It's such a brilliant tuning, with four inversions of the E major chord, three inversions of the relative minor (C#m), plus E6, C#m7, E7, E13, G# diminished, part of an A chord, part of an AM7, part of a Bm chord, part of a G chord, part of a C#7, etc, etc, all just at open position. What amazes me is that I can play it instantly even though I keep reaching for pedals and knee levers. The 3rd and 7th strings give you useful notes that I am used to getting from pedals. Fun!!! And much quicker to set up and easier to carry than a psg...
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I give music lessons on several different instruments in Cambridge, NY (between Bennington, VT and Albany, NY). But my true love is pedal steel. I've been obsessed with steel since 1972; don't know anything I'd rather talk about... www.barryhyman.com |
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Keith Drummond
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Feb 2015 7:54 pm E Harp tuning
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I played this form many years and am going back to it. Its a 10 string, no tilt style that I used for Jazz, blues and country.
E C# B A G# G F# F E C#.
Developed by Eddie Alkire
Cheers, Keith Canuck |
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