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Topic: 8-String Hawaiian Lap Steel Tunings? |
Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2005 10:34 am |
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| I have more or less just begun to seriously play lap steel. I'm using what they call a low C6 (that is with the E on top) and I tune the 7th and 8th strings back and forth from A, F and Bb, G. I have a long way to go to either learn my way around this tuning or figure out any reason why I would need another one. I strongly suggest a C6 tuning to begin. The important part of that(from high to low) is E C A G E C. That is the heart of the tuning and the strings you will probably use most. You may just as well tune the others to whatever 8 string formation suits your fancy for now. Only after playing awhile can you figure out what you personally are going to need. |
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Chuck Fisher
From:
Santa Cruz, California, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Dec 2005 1:41 pm
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"Weird Chuck Fisher Tuning"????
I resemble that. Actually its just Jerry's 6-string E-13 with a IV powerchord underneath, I think Steiner uses this too. Its pretty versatile.
BTW can we ban any posts that mention a tuning without defining LOW-TO-HI or HI-to-LOW??? |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 3 Dec 2005 4:12 pm
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HIGH to lo has been standard for decades. (Before rock and roll and Hank Williams Jr.)
Younger folks are re-writing the book.... but at times it is confusing at first glance.
Anyone that is using the olde standard verson of C6th are short changing themselves possibly; by tuning that bottom "C" note to "C#". It gives you so much versatility, I do believe. And having that really, really LOW note below that is really a kicker. |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Dec 2005 4:27 pm
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| Actually its just Jerry's 6-string E-13 with a IV powerchord underneath, I think Steiner uses this too. Its pretty versatile. |
Yeah, I really like that tuning, being used to playing 6-string in straight major tuning I found it easy to adapt to, plus it has all the advantages of the 6-string major tuning and those cool "extras".
At the moment I'm busy trying to figure out this C6add9 tuning though; (low to high) ACEGACED. That added ninth up there opens up some nice harmonic possibilities...
Steinar
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