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Topic: new tuning C#m (for me) |
Randy Reeves
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LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 May 2005 11:57 am |
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I tuned to C#m this morning for before work. gave it a try.
at first I was confused, but then I found all sorts of nice and easy slants and some two string non slant voicings.
I wished I had more time to explore that but work duty called.
perhaps I should have spent more time before posting; I dont have any specific questions just yet.
this tuning sounds very swing/ western .
when I get home in a few hours I'll be plugging in and working the tuning some more.
anyone use this tuning? seems to be quite useful. |
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Patrick Newbery
From:
San Francisco, California, USA
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 May 2005 12:45 pm
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thanks for the back post discussion.
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 26 May 2005 3:56 pm
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"Topic: new tuning C#m (for me)"
Glad you are discovering and enjoying what steel guitarists for the past fifty years (plus) have known all along. C#m and F#9th are great tunings for six string guitars. One only has to listen to the geniuses of Sol Ho'opi'i and Dick McIntire to hear the capabilities of these old (seldom used today) tunings.  |
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Denny Turner
From:
Oahu, Hawaii USA
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Posted 26 May 2005 4:14 pm
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I just posted to another thread discussing VERY close functional relationships between C#min and E6.
Aloha,
DT~
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Jeff Strouse
From:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 26 May 2005 5:42 pm
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I like the sound of this tuning and use it quite a bit.
You can also try variations like C#m7th:
E
C#
G#
E
D
B
or, C#m9th:
E
C#
G#
F#
E
D
B
G# or E
Some will argue that the above is in fact not C#m9th, but E13. 
Either way, it's a beautiful tuning. |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 May 2005 6:33 pm
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Yes, as Denny says. there is a closs relationship between C# minor and E6. E6 is acutually C#minor7 also.
for 6 string E6th. E-C#-B-G#-E-C#
This can be turned into an A6 or E13th with just a couple of changes....al
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 May 2005 7:36 pm
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After hearing the Vol 7 of Dick McIntire
from Cumquat,I just had to get into that tuning, and found that it was a very old sound. I enjoy exploring it. It made me aware that some of the steel guitar stuff I heard in the 40s was done on that tuning. |
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 27 May 2005 3:07 am
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| Any song can be played in any tuning if you really want to do it. When I was a kid subbing in the Cooley bands I noticed Joaquin on some songs would play in his basic A7 and then while other instruments were playing their parts he would retune one string and then come back in with one hell of a "hot" chorus. I asked and what he was doing was running his A strg down to G# giving him the top triad of C#m tuning. Virtually all of the guys in Cal in the 40s and 50s had C#m on there multinecks or would retune to C#m to fit the song A7 was E C# A G E C#. C#m was E C# G# G(you had to skip the G,E C#. |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 27 May 2005 4:52 am
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love the replies. I went at C#m again last night and tweaked a few strings.
checking this thread this morning I inadvertently, but correctly, tuned to
E6 / C#m7.
I like it.
and it dos have that old timey sound. which now answers to some of the notes I have been hearing but not finding with othr tunings I have tried.
I have been listening to old Hawaiian and early lap steel country.
alternative tunings are so wonderful. |
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