Pedal Steel Tuning E9

Steel guitar tunings and copedents.

Pedal steel tuning e9.

The a b indicates pedals a b standard e9 tuning. 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. How to tune to e9 chromatic on a pedal steel guitar. Pick any combination of strings 3 4 5 6 8 10 to play the chords.

Hello and welcome to steel picking. Learn how to tune to e9 chromatic in this howcast video about how to tune a pedal steel guitar. The purpose of this page is to acquaint the beginner with the e9 nashville tuning for the pedal steel guitar. Note range of the steel guitar.

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. How to understand overtones when tuning a pedal steel guitar. In this video i thought that i would give a rundown on the e9 tuning and explain some of the mechanics involved with the. A brief summary of what e9 buys you as a player will also be presented in the context of.

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. 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. As i said before this is an e9th chromatic tuning. 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.

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 e9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale. Okay how do you tune this thing. E9 pedal steel guitar chord positions.

While there are many variations in use among today s players this page will concentrate on the most common pedal and knee lever arrangements. So this tuning is called the e9 tuning.