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Topic: Eddie Rivers vid on playing A6th tuning |
Pete Burak
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Portland, OR USA
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 22 Mar 2018 4:43 pm Good reason for A6th |
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Hi Pete,
A Good reason for A6th is that whatever you learn there works on your E9th pedal steel later with the AB pedals down.
Eddie Rivers is a great picker....
Good luck,
Andy
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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G Strout
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Carabelle, Florida
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Posted 22 Mar 2018 9:14 pm
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Love listening to Eddie Rivers and Asleep at the Wheel.. I have seen him live a few times. He gets a great sound and tone and he is a very fluid player.
I realize that it is a very limited market but I wish he would release a series of instructional material on A6.
Is he using a standard A6 with an F# on the bottom?
ie; F# A C# E F# A C# E
Sounds like it to me...... I have been considering a switch from C6 to A6..... A6 sounds a bit stronger to me than C6 |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 22 Mar 2018 10:46 pm A6th v C6th
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A6th v C6th, There is a lot more tab for C6th but I don't often use tab.
I like the richer tone of A6th and the keys are in positions I'm used too.
I'm not sure what bottom string he uses.
I have an F# bottom string, but sometimes change it to G for the 7th tone.
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 22 Mar 2018 11:26 pm
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Top stuff, Pete. Thanks. I like A6th a whole lot. There are a number of single neck guitars that I covet, and that D8 Stringmaster (?) is one of them. Its such a handsome and logical shape, and of course they sound great.
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David M Brown
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California, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2018 6:04 am
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I play a lot in A6 - it's a great tuning, was favored by a few players along the way (!), and on a 6 string retunes to C6+A7 fast.
C# E F# A C# E to C# E G A C E
a half-step either way, F# to G, C# to C
Thanks for posting the links. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 23 Mar 2018 6:17 am Agree a lot
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| David M Brown wrote: |
I play a lot in A6 - it's a great tuning, was favored by a few players along the way (!), and on a 6 string retunes to C6+A7 fast.
C# E F# A C# E to C# E G A C E
a half-step either way, F# to G, C# to C
Thanks for posting the links. |
I didn't mention it, but sometimes do retune to C6th if I want to work out some tab and not think too hard about transposing.   Very quick and easy to change from one to another.
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 23 Mar 2018 12:48 pm
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I re-tune rarely out of A6th, but I can go to B11, C6, E9, and a kind of fudged C#m7. That should keep me busy for while.
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Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2018 1:38 pm
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| I really like A6 tuning on a 7-string instrument with a high E and a low A. It's alot like playing a 6-string C6 on strings 2-7, only three half-steps lower. It necessitates employing heavier strings, and produces a thicker, fatter sound than the thinner C6 string set. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 23 Mar 2018 2:56 pm
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| David Matzenik wrote: |
| I re-tune rarely out of A6th, but I can go to B11, C6, E9, and a kind of fudged C#m7. That should keep me busy for while. |
Hi David,
Is this what your thinking of or something else?
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Joe Kaufman
From:
Lewiston, Idaho
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Posted 23 Mar 2018 7:54 pm
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| Jack I also really like A6 on my 7 string lap steel and resonator! I do retune to AC#EGACE on occasion. |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 24 Mar 2018 1:32 pm
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Hi Andy, thats pretty-much it. I tend to tune the 8th string to G in A6th. The easy re-tune to E9 is something I am ashamed to admit I only recently woke up to.
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Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 30 Mar 2018 8:29 am Not so obvious...
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| David Matzenik wrote: |
| The easy re-tune to E9 is something I am ashamed to admit I only recently woke up to. |
Not so obvious...
After all you need too retune 7 of the 8 strings and 5 of those by two half tones.  
Really it is almost possible to go from just about any 6th tuning to almost any other given enough messing about. A6th to B11th or C6th are quick and easy... The others, not so much. 
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Tom Campbell
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2018 9:53 am
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I have a triple neck 8 string non-pedal guitar.
My first neck is a E13 tuning...second neck is an A6 tuning. In a 1,4,5 chord progression the frets positions line up perfectly for transitioning from one neck to the other. And of course the third neck is a B11, that will complete the 1,4,5 progression.
I also play a Sierra 12 string, so I am use to the open chord, followed by AB pedals down, followed by E lever engaged and not moving off the same fret position (1,4,5). |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 30 Mar 2018 1:41 pm Very logical Tom
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Very logical way to set that up Tom.
Really makes a lot of sense, I may wind up there with the new T-8 after a while
Andy
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Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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