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Scott Duckworth


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Post  Posted 6 Apr 2016 9:16 am    
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Anyone recommend some charts for E7 lap steel showing grips scales chords, etc?
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Stephen Abruzzo

 

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Philly, PA
Post  Posted 6 Apr 2016 11:37 am    
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http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/guitar/index_rb.html

Just put your tuning in and away you go.
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Stefan Robertson


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Hertfordshire, UK
Post  Posted 6 Apr 2016 12:14 pm    
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https://ilapsteel.wordpress.com/e7th-sacred-steel-fretboard-layout/

There you go.
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Steve Hotra


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Camas, Washington
Post  Posted 6 Apr 2016 6:37 pm    
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Stefan Robertson wrote:
https://ilapsteel.wordpress.com/e7th-sacred-steel-fretboard-layout/

There you go.


Sweet!
Thank you!
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Scott Duckworth


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Post  Posted 7 Apr 2016 2:23 am    
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Thanks guys. I've done C6 lap, and E9 pedal, and tried the E7 lap, and could play it immediately. Just wanted to study it more.
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Scott Duckworth


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Post  Posted 26 Apr 2016 1:33 pm    
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I'm enjoying this tuning. Headed to the nursing home tonight to play some old style gospel.
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David M Brown


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California, USA
Post  Posted 15 Nov 2016 9:48 am    
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Check out the old Roger Filiberto book Mel Bay has, if I recall it uses the E7 tuning:

B D E G# B E.
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Wayne D. Clark

 

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Montello Wisconsin, USA
Post  Posted 23 Nov 2016 8:21 pm    
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David, I tune that [D] down a half step to a [C#].
That adds a nice minor sound. I think they refer to that as a [C# minor 7th] but your first 4 strings give you that [E7th].
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Roger Shackelton

 

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MINNESOTA (deceased)
Post  Posted 23 Nov 2016 10:13 pm    
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Just so there is no mis-understanding.

The E-7 Tuning: B D E G# B E.

1. E
2. B
3. G#
4. E
5. D
6. B

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Scott Duckworth


From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
Post  Posted 24 Nov 2016 4:52 am    
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Wayne D. Clark wrote:
David, I tune that [D] down a half step to a [C#].
That adds a nice minor sound. I think they refer to that as a [C# minor 7th] but your first 4 strings give you that [E7th].


Wayne, I do that also now. That makes the E7 tuning an E6 variant. I like it, because it's easy to play melody lines.
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David M Brown


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Post  Posted 24 Nov 2016 7:25 am    
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Wayne D. Clark wrote:
David, I tune that [D] down a half step to a [C#].
That adds a nice minor sound. I think they refer to that as a [C# minor 7th] but your first 4 strings give you that [E7th].


I like that tuning too! It's very useful for Hawaiian music:

http://www.lapsteelin.com/

has some similar tuning charts like:



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Len Amaral

 

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Rehoboth,MA 02769
Post  Posted 30 Nov 2016 8:42 am    
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I put the D on my second string on my lap steel. That way, I can tune that string down a 1/2 step to C# for an E6 tuning for swing or a jazzier vibe then back to D for the E7 for a blues vibe.

This works for me as the pedal steel in E9, as well as being a guitar player I am able to play the positions that are familiar.
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