Jun 17, 2009 White and Nerdy: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore. Mashing up hip-hop, country, and teenpop? A lil’ bit of pedal steel, a lil’ bit of Auto-Tune? I canceled dinner plans. A simple easy tune, 3 chords, great lyrics, and the Pedal Steel Guitar, with fiddles, and banjos, and no auto tune.just plain simple good music sung with character and style. Here we see and hear one of the greats., Johnny Paycheck with Hal Rugg on the Pedal Steel Guitar. How to Tune the Pedal Steel Guitar. Depending on what kind of changer mechanism you have will determine whether you tune the pedals first or the open strings first. Older steel guitars, as well as some student models, required tuning some of the pedals and knee levers first and then the open strings.
E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings. In particular, it is the most common tuning for the far neck on a two-neck table steel guitar or pedal steel guitar, most often combined with C6 tuning for the near neck, and also a popular tuning for single neck instruments of eight or more strings.
The E9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale patterns across a single fret on the 10-string pedal steel guitar.
Corresponding tunings for a six string lap steel guitar are the E6 tuning E-G#-B-C#-E-G#, or E7 tuning B-D-E-G#-B-E.
A popular E9 tuning for eight string table steel guitar is the western swing tuning E-G#-B-D-F#-G#-B-E, low to high and near to far.
The standard Nashville E9 tuning for ten string pedal steel guitar is B-D-E-F#-G#-B-E-G#-D#-F#.[1]
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Pedal Steels For Sale
- Steel guitar tunings indexes many tunings.
Drop Tune Guitar Pedal
Auto Tune Pedal Steel Repair
- ^Borisoff, Jason (September 27, 2010). 'How Pedal Steel Guitar Works'. makingmusicmagazine.com. Making Music Magazine. Retrieved September 1, 2017.