Pedal Steel Guitar Tuning

E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings.

Pedal steel guitar tuning.

Size 1 1 2 long 3 16 hex. Sgn products formally the steel guitar network sgn products pedal steel guitar standard replacement tuning nuts. Note range of the steel guitar. Older steel guitars as well as some student models required tuning some of the pedals and knee levers first and then the open strings.

Steel guitar tunings and copedents. The admirable byrd lp and can be played on the e9th pedal steel guitar which is a chromatic tuning. With the need to have some versatility in playing songs in different keys and scales the. Tuning the pedal steel guitar.

Most modern pedal steel guitars use all pull changers and so this lesson will assume you have to tune the open strings first. 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. 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.

So this tuning is called the e9 tuning. The first seven 1 7 strings above are identical to the bottom seven open strings on the e9th pedal 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. 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.

It has actually evolved over the years dating back to the early 1930 s with the electric lap steel. The pedal steel guitar is a very unique instrument. 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. This displaces the material and creates a stronger and tighter fit.

The pedal steel itself has four legs several foot operated pedals and often multiple knee operated levers that bend certain strings up and down. Hello and welcome to steel picking. Of course don t use the pedals or knees. Soon legs were added and the instrument was called a console steel.

Pedal steel guitars are played by pressing a steel bar on top of the pedal steel guitar strings with one hand while plucking them with fingerpicks on the other hand.