C6 (or any other tuning) chord finder

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Stan Schober
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C6 (or any other tuning) chord finder

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Being a lazy person, I'm always looking for tools to help me with any job,and I think this one is aces.
It's the Chord House Guitar Room over at
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/g ... ex_rb.html

It's basically an advanced chord finder and one of the nicest things about it is that you can set the strings to pretty much ANY 6 string tuning.
There are settings for right handed, left handed and whether you'd like to look at the strings from top to bottom or in reverse.

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You can instantly see many grips and forward and reverse slants. It will find you 58 different chords for each key with all of their positions between fret0 and 12.
I made these charts of just the "C" chords just to give you an idea.

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I hope you find it as usful as I do !
(If anyone wants the original large copies of the charts, just pm me and i'll send them to you by e-mail.)
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norm mcdaniel
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Chord house

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:D :D :D Stan-Yep I found this awhile back and it is useful for all the reasons you said. It has helped me tune my steels to many different tunings. A very useful site.
:whoa: :whoa: :whoa: :whoa: Ah but Im still having trouble with my playing :lol: :lol:
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Post by Mark MacKenzie »

Hey Stan! Thanks so much for the larger charts. Very well done! Happy Holidays!
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Post by Stephen Baker »

If you check out Ricky Davis’s excellent site at www.mightyfinemusic.com he has a similar thing which covers 8 string with lots of common and not so common tunings. He also has a PSG chord finder.
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Post by Stan Schober »

You're welcome, Mark !

Thanks for the addition , Steve !
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Post by Joel Bloom »

One of the guys here got me onto this years ago, bloody good little site that one and thanks for the reminder.
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Post by Stephen Abruzzo »

In addition to finding chords for various tunings...one can also where all of the scale notes are for a particular tuning (say, Am pentatonic).
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An old post, sharing again re C6 lap steel chord finder

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Long time pedal steeler, more recently getting into C6 6-string lap steel, and working on finding chords. Right as I was starting to do something manual on this, I found this old post, and the chord finder is still active! Check it out --- it makes finding chords for ANY tuning possible.
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Post by Gene Tani »

- keyless Sonny Jenkins laps stay in tune forever!; Carter PSG
- The secret sauce: polyester sweatpants to buff your picks, cheapo Presonus channel strip for preamp/EQ/compress/limiter, Diet Mountain Dew
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David Slama
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Another Site

Post by David Slama »

I like to use the studybass.com site. You can do a custom tuning for up to 12 strings (I use eight) and get all sorts of scales and chords. Easy to use and print fretboard diagrams, plus you can save as a PDF if you want to print more in the future. You can save the diagrams labeled by letter name of note or by value in the scale.

http://www.studybass.com/tools/chord-sc ... e-printer/

Here is an example of G minor blues scale for tuning G,A,C#,E,F#,A,C#,E:

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