Steel Guitar Tuning C6

Six seven and eight string lap steel guitar tunings.

Steel guitar tuning c6. 1 g 2 e 3 c 4 b 5 g. Tune the fifth string to the note b. There are different tunings for the lap steel guitar but three of the most popular are the high g high a and the c6 tuning. There are many variations on the tuning of this neck.

Designed to fit in your guitar case slide rules includes over 70 of the most popular and useful tunings for acoustic and electric lap steel guitar. Some professional model pedal steel guitars have another neck on them closer to the player. In this lesson i give you an introduction to c6 tuning for lap steel. You don t need to learn a lot of things to get you started just start off with the basics.

The pedal steel guitar is usually tuned to either e9 or c6 or both in the case of a double neck but there are other tunings. But many players tune it to the more or less standard c6 cega tuning which is similar to earlier lap steel tunings. On a twin neck the most common set up is c6 tuning on the near neck and e9 tuning on the far neck. Steel guitar tunings pedal non pedal used by the pros.

It is primarily used to get that old fashioned hawaiian or western swing sound. All three are relatively easy to achieve and can be applied quickly to your instrument. 71 pages spiral binding. Large clear easy to read tablature with notation.

C6 tuning is one of the most common tunings for steel guitar both on single and multiple neck instruments. Using the guitar tuner tune the sixth string to the note g. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars. Tuning up your instrument understanding the harmonic layout of this tuning then the major and minor chords.

Ghs pedal guitar tunings e9 c6 recommended string gauges for 24 inch scale.