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Topic: E9 Tuning and String Gauge Sequence |
Ransom Beers
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Posted 30 Mar 2012 2:23 am
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"A long time ago, I had a very well respected country guitar player here locally, who had never worked with a steel guitar player, strum across my neck , walk over, pick up his tuner and hand it to me, and tell me there was a serious problem with my tuner and I should use his because my guitar sounded like "S#!T". I honestly don't think he knew it was supposed to be tuned that way."
Being a well known player & being a well educated player are two colors of horses a$$'s !!
Knowing music & what "IS" music will make even the less known player a better player.JMHO |
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Allan Thompson
From: Scotland.
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Posted 30 Mar 2012 4:25 am
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I'm pretty sure Ronnie Symank the TSGA player of the year tunes his top strings in the order you are talking about. Great player. |
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Donny Hinson
From: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 30 Mar 2012 5:50 am
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The WAY COOL thing about the Pedal Steel Guitar is you can set it up any way you want to! |
Sure, and you can do the same with almost any stringed instrument. A good example is that some players do use different (slack-key) tunings for guitar. But in the end, whenever you run across a tuning that is used by thousands and thousands of players, it's pretty safe to say it's a very logical and practical tuning.
When I used to teach E9th, I found that players would learn far quicker if I told them to consider it as an 8+2 string tuning, rather than a 10 string tuning. Realizing that most of their playing would be done on strings 3 through 10 somehow made it far easier to comprehend. |
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Brad Bechtel
From: San Francisco, CA
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Posted 30 Mar 2012 6:58 am
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In my humble attempts to play pedal steel, I've pretty much stayed away from the top two ("scary") strings until I felt better about playing the other eight properly. I do note that the high D# and F# combine with the B string to make a V chord in the I position. _________________ Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars |
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