Rukavina 8 string goes to the woods

David Weisenthal · From: Arizona, USA

Took the week off work and took the rukavina 8 string lap to Flagstaff AZ Woods. Here I am trying the A6 tuning for first time. This is truly a Heavenly spot. The Portable amp took a header the night before and now has to be carried in a trash bag to keep it togeather. Also with verbzilla Reverb pedal.

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Will Houston · From: Tempe, Az

Great idea, looks nice and cool.. I'm stuck in Tempe, although only 100 give or take. Smile

Mike Neer · From: NJ

Wouldn't think you'd need the reverb out there!
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Miles Lang · From: Venturaloha

Everything sounds better with reverb

Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

Maybe if he was in the Grand Canyon he wouldn't need reverb. Very Happy

Bill Sinclair · From: Waynesboro, PA, USA

Paddle faster - I hear a lap steel!

Mike Neer · From: NJ

David Weisenthal · From: Arizona, USA

I just got the lapsteel a few months back. I had it tuned to the top 8 of E9 pedal steel, but thought I'd try something else so am tuning A6. My portable setup is very clean though, more gain might b nice. Oh god, i may have to buy another pedal! Or maybe try roland micro cube? Muttering

Its amazing with a new tuning what "appears" when your noodling. And noodle is all I'm capable of so far.
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Will Houston · From: Tempe, Az

Noodle on dude.

David Weisenthal · From: Arizona, USA

Hi guys, thanks for messages. need advice...It seems A6 tuning is kind of oddball...not much tabbed out for it. Is this a tuff one to start lap on? Doug beaumier has some 6 string tab for sale I see. Raining here in woods so everything is shut down.
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Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

Not any harder than any other tuning, especially on an 8 stringer.
On a 6 string I just use a plain A tuning

Wayne D. Clark · From: Montello Wisconsin, USA

I've gone back to E7 with the 5th string tuned to C# on my 8 string and when I get my new Melber 6 I'll probably tune to E,B,E,G#,B,E, or something in that area, I have always like the E set up.

Keith Glendinning · From: United Kingdom

David, there's a great guy called Bill Chaviers who has hundreds of free A6 tabs. If you open the link below and find the tabs you want, then contact Bill, he will send the tabs to you free of charge. A true gentleman.
Hope this helps you.
Keith.

http://www.billchaviers.com

Joshua Clements · From: Tifton, Georgia.

Hey David, I started with C6 tuning when I first got into playing steel, but I moved to A6 early on. It is what I play exclusively now. I had thought about getting a double neck and tuning one of the necks to an E tuning to play some of Don Helms' material. Instead, I have started figuring out how to play the licks on the A6. It is a great tuning and most everything you could want to do is in there. Check out Herb Remington. His fun tabs are great to learn on. Keep steelin'.

Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

When I played a T-8 Stringmaster, I had one neck tuned to A6th, one neck to C6th and by adding a C# to the E tuning' you have what's called a C# minor 7th tuning, a very handy tuning.

David Weisenthal · From: Arizona, USA

Hi guys, thanks for all the responses. Wow, Bill Chaviers and Herb Remington look like great sources for A6 tab. Appreciate all the great advise!

I'm back from the woods-nonstop rain up there now. Its bow hunting season up there and all these guys in camouflage on their quads saw me sitting in flip flops with a guitar. They all waived though..
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David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

I posted this a ways back, four Cth tunings outta the same strings:
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=303746

And, I realized I didn't articulate my point (when you have 47 of 'em...) That is: in a 1-3-5-6 sort of standard 6th tuning, the basic choice is simply whether you want a root, a 3rd, a 5th or a 6th as your top string. After that it's all just higher and lower - I just hooked up the Mighty MSA Super Slide with an A6th tuning, but it's just a regular C6th 10-string pedal-type tuning, not different just LOWER:
E
C#
A
F#
E
C#
A
F#
D
A
It's got that hinky 4th on the 9th string that gives you a whole other set of chords, and to confuse yourself, raising the lower string a whole step a la Maurice has it's charms. Now me and the Fouke Industrial 8 have been making the stinkeye at each other, it's a-goin' SOMEWHERE pronto. Shocked

David Weisenthal · From: Arizona, USA

Hi Dave, what does hinky mean? Do you put legs on the super slide?
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David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

By "hinky", I mean it's not a customary "chord tone" in the 6th tuning, which is tecnically any combination of 1 - 3 - 5 - 6 notes. But the F on the botom is a 4th. What it does functionally is give you a whole other set of chords, but it's kind of mentally separating the bass strings from the upper ones. When you HAVE enough strings, that's a good thing. And no, my MSA "Freedom stand" is way to free, it wants to play vibrato even when I don't. I have a top 'o' the line $15 Salvation Army walker that would work better, but if I'm going somewhere so far I use a different guitar, a lovely D-10 "Pedalmaster" console. One way to master pedals is to leave 'em off.... Almost every pedal steel maker seems to have made something like thess, a pedal steel with no guts. Literally, NOT figuratively.

Paul Miles · From: United Kingdom

Hi Dave - I've got the twin brother of your Rukavina that now lives in Wales UK!Got it from Ryan earlier this year and love it.Here I am having a bash at Steelin Moonlight in A6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQOcNpLroo
I've kept the A6 strings on her and also done a few other tunes in A13 and open E on you tube.

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