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Topic: Interesting C/G Tuning |
Allan Revich
From:
Victoria, BC
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Posted 26 Jun 2020 8:43 pm |
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I came across this tuning in a post from 2010
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=184752
C E G B D F. (G13?) (G11/13?)
C major, E minor, G major +
CM7, G6, G7, Em7
All of the above are playable on adjacent strings, under a straight bar.
It seems like it should be a popular tuning, more versatile than C6, but I don’t recall seeing it referenced before.
Anybody here ever use it?
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – D G D G B D
7 String | G9 – D G B D F A D
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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Paul Seager
From:
Augsburg, Germany
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Posted 26 Jun 2020 11:33 pm
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I use a similar tuning in 8 string form on my second neck. (Lo to hi):
E G# B D# F# A C# E
It gives you a ii-V-I in every position and variations:
Emaj7/9/11/13
G#m7 b9
B11, D#dim, F#m7, A6.
My main neck is tuned regular A6 and the above tuning compliments this. The advantages are as you write, lots of chords but where a 6 tuning excels is in the inversions on offer, which I find particularly useful in solos and, that a minor/ blues scale is available three frets up from any major position. That is really what makes the 6 tuning such fun to play and gives its characteristic.
I sing old time jazz and the tuning above is great for vocal accompaniment when I need a rich chord and don't want take an intonation risk with a bar slant on the 6 neck. I move between both necks for changes in a song but as soon as my solo comes I move back to A6.
\paul |
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Jerry Wagner
From:
California, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2020 9:10 am
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Hi Allan,
This tuning is another variation of what I call GM6/ C7 tuning (Bb,C,E,G,B,D,G) with all the inherent versatility that you've mentioned. I haven't really experimented with dropping the Hi-G string down to F# or F, although that's been suggested by others. I see that Stephen Abruzzo suggested dropping down 3 semitones to A,C#,E,G#,B,D for more bottom end. GM6/C7 on 7 or 8-strings does that while retaining the Hi-G string, which I find very useful. The 7-string C6 tuning Bobby Ingano and others use has the same overall range, from Low-Bb up to Hi-G. That's another versatile attribute, in addition to the convenient I, IV, V two-fret slots. |
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From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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