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Bill Hatcher

 

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Atlanta Ga. USA
Post  Posted 21 Oct 2020 8:47 am    
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friend of mine does not play steel, but inherited this nice national D8. he plays standard guitar.

this is about as simple a tuning as i could come up with for him. an E chord with a 7 and a 9 on top.

he can easily play some chords and have fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TSKByEvy4
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Allan Revich


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Victoria, BC
Post  Posted 21 Oct 2020 10:17 pm     Re: simple tuning for a 8 string neck
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Bill Hatcher wrote:
friend of mine does not play steel, but inherited this nice national D8. he plays standard guitar.

this is about as simple a tuning as i could come up with for him. an E chord with a 7 and a 9 on top.

he can easily play some chords and have fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TSKByEvy4


There’s also the 8 string G6 EGBDEGBD g major x2, G6 x2, Em x2, Em7 x2
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – G B D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)

https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database
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