E9 on 8-string lap

Drew Howard · From: 48854

I have a student (Hi, Gary!) who just got his first steel guitar, an 8-string Cougar.
He loves E9 pedal sounds and would like to replicate some of that sound and tuning on his lap steel. I recommended he use the top eight strings of an E9 string set (E-F#-G#-B-E-G#-D#-F#) and get busy with bar slants.

Any of you no-pedals players ever tuned your lap this way?

Any advice?

thanks heaps,
Drew Howard

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Rick Aiello · From: Berryville, VA USA

I like... (lo to hi)

G#(or E), B, D, E, F#, G#, B, E

It is a quick change from C6/A7

A, C, C#, E, G, A, C, E

and the string guages are correct if you use the low G#.

[This message was edited by Rick Aiello on 08 May 2002 at 04:46 PM.]

Pete Grant · From: Auburn, CA, USA

Drew, I like what you said. You get a lot of the E9 sound out of that. Having the 1 2 3 of the scale in two places is great. And having the 7 there with the 1 2 3 on the top is really great.

Pete Grant · From: Auburn, CA, USA

That's also the top 8 strings on my 10-string dobro, except I tune it down to D.

Brad Bechtel · From: San Francisco, CA

I don't use that tuning myself, but listening to Pete Grant play pedal steel licks on his ten string Zephyr is really fascinating. Pete's D tuning seems to work really well on a resophonic guitar with ten strings.

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Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

My favorite tunings were:
From hi to lo: E C# B G# E B G# E
and E C A G E C A G
On my triple neck, I used to tune the the other neck to an A high bass tuning with bass strings on the lower four.
Erv

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

Drew,

yes, I use that tuning (same as strings 1 through 8 of standard E9 PSG) on my quad Fender. It makes a lot of sense if you already play E9 PSG. And if your student ever wants to switch over to PSG he'll be half way there!

On another neck I have an A6 tuning which is set up exactly like "pedals A & B down, and string 2 lowered 1/2 tone" on the pedal steel E9. Those 2 tunings work well together IMHO. I recently played a four hour gig on the quad and between those 2 tunings I was able to get about 75% of what I normally get on E9 pedal steel.

...or was that 25% / 75% the other way...??



Eadd9       





1   F#  .013


2   D#  .015


3   G#  .011               


4   E    .014


5   B    .018P


6   G#  .024W


7   F#  .026


8   E    .030








A6 (sus4)





1   F#  .013


2   D    .016   


3   A    .010


4   E    .014   


5   C#  .017


6   A    .020P


7   F#  .026W


8   E    .030

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