Steel Guitar Tuning E9

In this video i thought that i would give a rundown on the e9 tuning and explain some of the mechanics involved with the.

Steel guitar tuning e9. It s an easy re tune from c6 tuning. There are a lot of pedal steel sounds in this tuning especially with slants. Hello and welcome to steel picking. Note range of the steel guitar.

The e9 neck of the steel guitar has a range that starts with an open string b that is 2 b s below middle c. So this tuning is called the e9 tuning. E9 tuning lap steel guitar demo. I ve been experimenting with e9 tuning on lap steel lately.

The pedal steel itself has four legs several foot operated pedals and often multiple knee operated levers that bend certain strings up and down. Using the guitar tuner tune the sixth string to the note g. The most common pedal steel guitars have 10 strings followed by universal 12 string instruments which purport to offer the same versatility as a double 10 string instrument 8 stringed instruments were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s they are less popular nowadays. Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings.

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. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars. 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. 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.

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 tuning of the open strings more or less makes up the notes of the e9 chord an e9 chord is spelled e g b d f. Like with any instrument it takes years of practice and determination to master the pedal steel guitar.

Is pedal steel guitar hard to play. Here s a quick demo video and tab. All three are relatively easy to achieve and can be applied quickly to your instrument.