Steel Guitar Tunings 10 String

It is played on the 10th string with no pedals or bar and is found here in musical notation.

Steel guitar tunings 10 string. Tune the fifth string to the note b. Designed to fit in your guitar case slide rules includes over 70 of the. 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. Using the guitar tuner tune the sixth string to the note g.

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. Six seven and eight string lap steel guitar tunings. Tuning 10 string pedal steel guitar 8 string pedal steel guitar 12 string pedal steel guitar 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. All three are relatively easy to achieve and can be applied quickly to your instrument.

Remove two or four strings and you have your lap steel string gauges. Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings. On a six string neck for example on lap steel guitar c6 tuning is most usually c e g a c e bass to treble and going away from the player some other six string c6 tunings are. Hello and welcome to steel picking.

But at fret 25 the pitch is a that is 3 octaves above middle c. 1 g 2 e 3 c 4 b 5 g 6 e 7 d 8 b or e. Used by don helms hank williams little roy wiggins eddy arnold and george morgan and speedy west with the 4th string tuned t a and a pedal to raise it to b would then be called f 9th tuning half chromatic and half. E b g e d b with use of the 2nd string up to c sometimes instead of a b note.

A 1930 s gibson catalog featuring several models of steel guitar lists a chart of tunings and suggests the use of an e7th tuning for advanced players. The highest pitch depends on how far you can move the bar up on the third string. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars.