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Bob Hoffnar


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Austin, Tx
Post  Posted 31 Oct 2000 9:14 am    
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In C major. This is like playing only white keys on a piano.

Tab:

   C  d-   e-  F  G  a-  Bdim  C
 
3. 0  2    4   5  7  9   11    12
5. 0  2    4   5  7  9   11(E) 12
6. 0  2(F) 4(F)5  7  9(F)11(F) 12
7. 0  2    4   5  7  9   11    12

and

4. 3   5  7   8   10   12  14   15
6. 3   5  7   8   10   12  14(F)15
7. 3(H)5  7   8(H)10(H)12  14   15(H)
8. 3   5  7   8   10   12  14   15


Practicing this sort of thing help me to understand the tuning.
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Bobby Lee


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Cloverdale, California, USA
Post  Posted 31 Oct 2000 11:01 am    
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Thanks a lot, Bob!
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Ricky Davis


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Bertram, Texas USA
Post  Posted 1 Nov 2000 1:29 am    
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Beautiful Bob and what a great place to start from.
Those wanting to understand the C6 neck more; should bury this in their head and building from there comes so much easier.
Thanks Bob Hoffnar.
Ricky
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Jeff Lampert

 

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queens, new york city
Post  Posted 1 Nov 2000 5:39 am    
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Good theory stuff.
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Bob Hoffnar


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Austin, Tx
Post  Posted 1 Nov 2000 10:32 am    
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If you mix both of those grips you can play all the diatonic chords except the Bdim without any pedals.

C grip#1
d- grip#2
e- grip#2
F grip#1
G grip#1
a- grip#2

I'm not the greatest C6 player to put it mildly but practicing this sort of thing makes it so I can visualise the neck a bit better and play what I hear.

Bob


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BJ Bailey

 

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Post  Posted 1 Nov 2000 11:35 am    
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Thanks alot Bob I am trying to learn just why I bought the other neck on my Steel.
I know it cost to much just to have an armrest. You guys do'nt know how much you mean to us that are still in the dark on alot of things.


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CrowBear Schmitt


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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
Post  Posted 1 Nov 2000 1:06 pm    
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Thanx Bob, real Neet+ darn Handy.
Keep it up...
Steel learnin'everyday....
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James Harrison

 

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New Brockton, Alabama, USA
Post  Posted 10 Jun 2008 9:49 pm    
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Bob Hoffnar, I have been trying for 77 years to become unstupid, but your first entry has me stumped. I mostly play E6 and Dobro G. I want to learn other tunings, but I cannot tell the frets or strings in the post. If it is too hard to explain that is OK. I am still trying to get unstupid.
James
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Steve Norman


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Seattle Washington, USA
Post  Posted 10 Jun 2008 9:59 pm    
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Idea light just clicked on,Thanks! Idea

James,,Numbers on the left are string grips,,the fret is the column under the Notes,

first one,,cmaj at fret o, strings 3,5,6,7, etc
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John Vaughan

 

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San Jose, California, USA
Post  Posted 13 Jun 2008 4:39 pm     C6 diatonic chords
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Are the letters for C6 pedals a continuation of the E9 ABC? i.e., E=pedal 5, F=pedal 6, etc.??

John Vaughan
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Rick Hulett


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Hood River, OR
Post  Posted 17 Jun 2008 8:37 am    
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thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been searching for this
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Al Marcus


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Post  Posted 28 May 2009 7:36 am    
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Good start. Glad to see all the interest in C6...al.Smile Cool Cool
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Sherman Willden


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Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Post  Posted 2 Jul 2009 9:27 pm    
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Thank you Bob

Sherman
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Eldon Cangas


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Ontario, Canada
Post  Posted 3 Jul 2009 12:40 pm     Grips
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Could someone please explain what grips 1 and 2 are. There must be a few more perhaps a short list would be beneficial. Thanks. Eldon
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Roger Guyett


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San Francisco, Ca.
Post  Posted 3 Jul 2009 5:09 pm     Re: Grips
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Eldon Cangas wrote:
Could someone please explain what grips 1 and 2 are. There must be a few more perhaps a short list would be beneficial. Thanks. Eldon


Are you referring to Bob Hoffnar's 2nd post? The way I read it was.... I thought Bob was referring to his own original post where he'd outlined 2 ways of playing the same chord.
The chord name is along the top - so C can be played with (fret 0,0,0,0) using strings 3 5 6 7 or (3,3,3H,3) using strings 4 6 7 8
...so Grip #1 = strings 3 5 6 7
Grip #2 = strings 4 6 7 8

So in his 2nd post he notes that you can find a version of the chord without levers/pedals except for the Bdim chord.....making sense?

There're obviously "standard" grips (these being 2 of them)...but I havent seen them numbered before...somebody out there may have a numbering system!
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Dick Chapple Sr

 

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Hardin Montana, USA
Post  Posted 2 May 2017 8:31 am     C6th neck
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This is very nice stuff. I learned by tablature in the later 1940's thanks to Oahu Music. I still play by tab. So this all makes instant sense because I must rely on tab.
I can play all of my C6th tab music written for 6 and 8 string non pedal automatically on the C6th neck of course.
Then I have been able to slowly remember what each pedal will do for me to avoid playing a slant.
It is a wonderful thing for those players that can play steel by notes. I can read music, sing from notes but I never was able to transfer note reading to steel guitar. Tab is it for me.
So I found these books to be very helpful, and there are so many more. The Sharp Music Manual for simplified music theory, Mike Neer's Steelin' Scales & Modes book, and Doug Beaumier's C6th tab books to name only a few as we have so many good tab books available from so many of our steel friends. These just happen to be the first ones I bought in recent years. I have all of Scotty's C6th books and so many others as well.
The common string grips on 6 string C6th are 1,2,3; 2,3,5; 3,5,6; and 1,2,4; 2,4,5; and 4,5,6. first 3 grips involve the 6th note. The second 3 grips do not.
On 10 string those grips then are 2,3,4; 3,4,6; 4,6,7; and 2,3,5; 3,5,6; and 5,6,7.
Perhaps this info may not be much help but it sure has allowed me to be active on my C6th neck too.
Smile Smile
Dick
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