Pedal Steel Guitar Tuning Chart

Pedal steel guitar e9 fretboard reference arranged by.

Pedal steel guitar tuning chart.

If you are just beginning on steel use these samples as a starting point. Lloyd green what can you say he s my favorite pedal steel artist bar none. The steel guitar forum where steel players meet online. Note range of the steel guitar.

Steel guitar music cds lps and tapes for sale many of them rare and out of print. Steel guitar tunings and copedents. 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. 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.

In the language of pedal steel guitarists the combination of string tuning and pedal knee arrangement is called a copedent pronounced ko pee dent there are nearly as many pedal steel copedents as there are steel guitarists. Diatonic chord reference p 11 a b c lkl lkr f d g a e f f d b c c g a f e f d d b c draft 6 please send all comments and. 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. If you ever tuned a regular guitar with an electronic tuner you will know that each string is tuned with the tuner dead on that specific strings note.

So this tuning is called the e9 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. The links below provide a sample setup for s 10 d 10 and s 12 universal guitars. Ray price shuffles by jim baron classic country styles for band in a box.

Steel guitar shopper for strings accessories and instruction. If you are new to the pedal steel or if you are a guitar player wanting to learn the pedal steel this bit of information about tuning will be priceless. Truly simplicity is the heart of elegance a quote from lloyd. There is a also a blank chart you can download for use in experimenting with your own customized setup.

Right click on the link and save the blank chart to your computer.