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1) Hit the ground running. Use your Dobro tuning. 2) Learn the de facto “standard” lap steel tuning; C6 (CEGACE) 3) Experiment like a madman, seeking the perfect tuning, while knowing full well that there is no single, perfect tuning. _____ Current Tunings: 6 String | G – G B D G B D 7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
This is also an Open A tuning, and might be referred to as A, low bass. Finally, on a chart not specifically written for lap steel, “A major†might refer only to the song key that the chart is written for. _____ Current Tunings: 6 String | G – G B D G B D 7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
My steel playing career started on a triple 8 string National console guitar. I used a combination of the two.: F# D# G# E B G# F# E _____ Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still ...
EG#BC#EG# or 135613. Same interval as the C6. It seems a natural tuning for a life long E9 pedal guy like me. Am I missing something? Don't think I hear anything about this 6 string tuning. Maybe it's the High G# being a little thin sounding. Any instruction written for C6 would directly fall into the E tuning just a different key.
Hey John, I have one of my lapsteels in that E7th tuning (BDEG#BE) with a unique twist. I have Keith/Scruggs banjo tuners on strings 1 and 3. I lower the 1st string to D and the 3rd string to G and then it becomes a G6th tuning (BDEGBD) which I find myself using a little more than the E7th. I like the E7 for the more rock or blues edged things.
My newest ideal tuning comes from Dobro G and A major. Try lo to hi ACEGBD or AC#EGBD. In the first tuning there seems to be no wrong notes only jazz overtones. A minor 11. The second tuning gives you all the major, minor, Dom 7, minor 7, without inversions.A11 I use string gauges .054, .042, .032, .026p, .022p, .018p.
For any given tuning, the shorter the scale length, the less tension to get to each string's proper pitch ... and vice-versa. So, big strings for short scale steels. C6 with a 23" scale steel makes me like either 14 or 15 for the high E. But if I want to change that steel to a slack openD, even 56 to 16 gives me noodly bass side strings.
If you learn C6 right off the bat, you will have the tuning's base should you ever want to move up to an eight or ten string. I have three steels now (6 string, D8 & D10) and all of them have the basic C6th tuning; with the D8 & D10's second neck being tuned according to the genre of music I play.
So even with 8-strings, there was no b7 in there. It was still an E6/AM9 tuning. The other neck had (lo to hi): F# A B D# F# A C# E. This is where the "dominant" sound was - B9 tuning with two b7's (= A note). As I understand it, Don never had a fat 13-tuning à la Leon McAuliffe with a b7 in the lower register and a sixth above.
I need to change to a E13th tuning to be able to play the songs in his book but I am using a Six String Lap and he plays everything on an 8 String but he doesn't use strings 7 & 8. What is the E13th Tuning on a Six String and also do I have to change the string Gauges or can I just change from C6th to E13th using the same Gauge Strings.