Pedal Steel Guitar Tuning Chart

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Pedal steel guitar tuning chart.

The links below provide a sample setup for s 10 d 10 and s 12 universal guitars. So this tuning is called the e9 tuning. Pedal steel guitar e9 fretboard reference arranged by. Pedal steel guitar tunings you are welcome to copy and share these photo charts and everything on this website.

If you are just beginning on steel use these samples as a starting point. Jesse leite table of contents introduction p 2 the chord chart p 3 chord zones p 4 single position scale patterns p 5 harmonized scale patterns p 6 10 appendix a. 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. Steel guitar music cds lps and tapes for sale many of them rare and out of print.

Ray price shuffles by jim baron classic country styles for band in a box. 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. Right click on the link and save the blank chart to your computer. Non pedal steel guitar tunings.

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. Truly simplicity is the heart of elegance a quote from lloyd. 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. Lloyd green what can you say he s my favorite pedal steel artist bar none.

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. There is a also a blank chart you can download for use in experimenting with your own customized setup. The steel guitar forum where steel players meet online. 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.

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.