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Topic: 10 string tunings |
CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Sep 2006 12:30 pm |
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Here are a few suggestions:
C6 (like a PSG)
lo2hi
C F A C E G A C E G
Alkire tuning:
C# E F F# G G# A B C# E
E13 add9
E B D E F# G# B C# E G#
(there are variations of this one, but those are the notes you need)
Big John Bechtel has developed 3 dandy extended tunings for his Remington Steelmaster T-10.
He posted them not too long ago, maybe you've seen them already.
The extended C6/A7 looked pretty interesting . .
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2006 1:29 pm
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I've been working on learning this one:
E
C#
B
A
G#
F#
E
C#
B
A
I think of it as being E9 with pedals up and down. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:18 am
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Thanks Rick & Chas 
along w: yer help & what i found in the archives this fellow should have more that he needs |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2006 10:26 pm
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Chas,
Great idea! I hope to try that before long. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Oct 2006 8:28 am
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Darryl, I have this on a Dobro, my converted 12-string "pawn-shop" guitar and the top 8 strings on my Beard reso.
I keep going back and forth about losing the A, on the bottom and putting an F# or G# on the top, but for the moment, that's what I'm working on.
This also works surprisingly well for the blues, 2 frets down and for minor keys, which are normally my bane. |
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Darryl Hattenhauer
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 3:30 pm
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Chas,
I bet it's GREAT for the blues. Did you see this tuning somewhere? Or figure it out yourself? The whole idea is one of those things where I say to myself, "Yeah! Sure! Why didn't I think of that?" Well, I didn't think of it cuz I don't have the mathematical imagination required.
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"Time flies like an arrow. Fruitflies like a banana." -- Groucho
[This message was edited by Darryl Hattenhauer on 09 October 2006 at 04:50 PM.] |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 11:56 am
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Darryl, I'm sure someone else somewhere thought of it first, I'm trying to get through this lifetime without having any original ideas....
I got a Beard 8-string reso and I wanted to play Touch My Heart on it. I could do it with a C6 tuning, but it was very unfriendly. Years ago I had a diatonic tuning on my 10-string Dobro, because Red Rhodes had one on his and he told me that that was the way to go. This tuning is, for all practicle purposes, a diatonic tuning, but if I think of it in terms of E9 pedals up and down, it makes more sense to me.
I think of the C6 tuning as having a "key" at every fret, 5th fret is F, 7th fret is G and so on. The beauty of E9 (with pedals and I know that this is the non-pedal section) is the 3rd fret is G and C, the 5th fret is A and D and the related scales are there and in the vicinity. So it's a lot more convenient.
This tuning doesn't have a convenient 7th chord, (no bar slants) but it has the minors that are convenient substitutes (G- subs for C7) and the licks that I use with the B and C pedals are easily available. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 4:21 pm
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| Chas, your 10 string tunig has lots of intervals but no tritone. It almost looks as tho you deliberately avoid the saccharine sonority of the half-octave. |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 6:29 pm
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| Doug, as I'm sure you recall, in medieval times, the tritone was the Diabolus in Musica, the devil in music. It was banned by the church and if, by some chance, it turned up in the music, the composer could be stoned to death. It was also suspected of causing women to be lascivious. Now to be honest, I've been stoned, I've played a lot of tritones and there have been some lascivious women, but now that I'm kind of sober and very committed to my darling, I thought it would be in everyone's best interest to keep the tritone off my guitar. |
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Terry Farmer
From:
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 6:40 pm
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| Heh, heh. Morality in tuning! I love it! |
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John Bechtel
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Oct 2006 7:45 pm
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You might want to give Billy Robinson's version of the C6 a try for his non-pedal Pedal~Style of playing! Lo to Hi: F~A~C~E~G~A~C~E~G~D
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“Big John”
a.k.a. {Keoni Nui}
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