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Topic: Tuning name |
Brian Henry
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Posted 13 Jul 2018 4:46 pm |
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Is this 6 string tuning lo to high an e9th tuning.
E. F#. G#. B. E. G# |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 13 Jul 2018 11:09 pm
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Yes. It's the middle 6 of the normal 10.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 4:55 am
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Probably the most common six-string pedal tuning.
Just now I'm thinking about E G# B E G D#. (I guess that would be EM7.) Still missing the high re-entrant strings. |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 5:39 am
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Perhaps E add 9 ?
An E9 chord would have both a D and an F#.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 5:50 am
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| Technically, I don't think so. There are 9th chords without the 7th. IMO. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 7:19 am
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
| Technically, I don't think so. There are 9th chords without the 7th. IMO. |
Normally, when someone refers to a 9th chord, it is actually dominant 9 chord, which does indeed contain a b7 note. This would be an add 9 chord, or possibly sus2 as the F# is in the lower register if using the 8th string as the root.
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Music_Theory/Complete_List_of_Chord_Patterns
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 7:38 am
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I'll accede to that, since I was thinking sus 2 chords. So I'm probably deferring to Lee as well. In nomenclature, best to stay with the majority.
My interpretation of E9 was that the D was already there before the entrant strings and wasn't influential in naming the tuning.
Notice that the other entrant string is the maj 7th, that weakens the role of the dom 7th in the chord.
But what do I know? |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 7:50 am
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You're right about that 2nd string being a spoiler for the definition of the E9 chord. Sus 2 is one of my favorite chords. Use it a lot..
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 8:00 am
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A spoiler for the name, but those two major scale notes redefined E9. It was a major shift. (That was supposed to be a pun of sorts.)
The fifth between the 5 and 9 is a useful thing. AFAIC (as far as I'm concerned), the difference could be called a M9 or m9, where the seventh is coinidental,
and is assumed to be the M7 rather than the dom 7, an older development. I think naming E9 follows that path.
It's kind of a schizophrenic neck. If course, that could be my schizophrenic neck. |
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2018 9:43 am
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
| It's kind of a schizophrenic neck. |
From now on I’m calling that tuning E Schizophrenic.
The C6 neck has some identity issues too. C Delusional. |
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