New Book for E9 Lap Steel (Free!)
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New Book for E9 Lap Steel (Free!)
So, a while ago, I started tuning my lap steel to E9 (instead of the E7 tuning I had been messing around with for a long time). Well, changing that one string totally opened up the instrument for me. There are TONS of chords and voicing possibilities in E9 and this tuning is especially well-suited to guitar players. It seems easier to wrap your brain around than C6 and because it's an E tuning, it has a lot of familiar landmarks.
I ended up liking the tuning so much, I wrote a short book about it that I'm posting free here for anyone who wants it. This is just an introduction, but it gets into chords, scales, and basic changes. My hope is that anyone else who already plays lap steel in E major or E7 might want to give E9 a try and they shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel like I did.
Anyway, I hope some people find my little book useful. I showed it to an experienced steel player and he pronounced it a solid introduction to the E9 tuning.
If anyone has any comments, I'd be happy to hear them.
Enjoy!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14381741/E9%20 ... ginner.pdf
I ended up liking the tuning so much, I wrote a short book about it that I'm posting free here for anyone who wants it. This is just an introduction, but it gets into chords, scales, and basic changes. My hope is that anyone else who already plays lap steel in E major or E7 might want to give E9 a try and they shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel like I did.
Anyway, I hope some people find my little book useful. I showed it to an experienced steel player and he pronounced it a solid introduction to the E9 tuning.
If anyone has any comments, I'd be happy to hear them.
Enjoy!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14381741/E9%20 ... ginner.pdf
Last edited by Rex Krueger on 3 Dec 2012 1:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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okay, let's try that again:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14381741/E9%20 ... ginner.pdf
Okay, now it works for me. Would someone else give it a shot and tell me if it works for them?
Thanks!
(I also fixed the link in the initial post, so they should both work).
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14381741/E9%20 ... ginner.pdf
Okay, now it works for me. Would someone else give it a shot and tell me if it works for them?
Thanks!
(I also fixed the link in the initial post, so they should both work).
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Rex, it downloaded fine, and my compliments on a great looking work, I know how much work it is to annotate and color code a piece like this (I'm a graphic designer in a former life). Well done! I look forward to reading and learning, I'm a strong pedal guy, anemic on lap steel.
And thanks for making this a free resource, very generous of you as well.
And thanks for making this a free resource, very generous of you as well.
E9 INSTRUCTION
If you want to have an ongoing discussion, please email me, don't use the Forum messaging which I detest! steelguitarlessons@earthlink.net
If you want to have an ongoing discussion, please email me, don't use the Forum messaging which I detest! steelguitarlessons@earthlink.net
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John:
I'm so glad you like it! The graphic design element was easier than you might think. I did most of it in MS Word. I was surprised at how many good graphics tools are in there now.
Anyway, I hope the book is useful to you. I totally envy pedal steel players. I really hope to get a pedal steel some day. If you look at the back of my book, I have a section on getting some pedal steel sounds from the lap steel. I think they sound good, but I'm always open to opinions.
--Rex
I'm so glad you like it! The graphic design element was easier than you might think. I did most of it in MS Word. I was surprised at how many good graphics tools are in there now.
Anyway, I hope the book is useful to you. I totally envy pedal steel players. I really hope to get a pedal steel some day. If you look at the back of my book, I have a section on getting some pedal steel sounds from the lap steel. I think they sound good, but I'm always open to opinions.
--Rex
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Rex, my compliments on an excellent job!!!! I have a Richenbacher Silver Hawaiian that I have not figured out what to do with it. This may be just the thing to allow me to play that thing. Thanks for creating the document, as well as making it public!!!
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Old topic I know but the link doesn't work and I am interested in this, Can someone either send me the pdf file or a link that works? I will provide email address to send the pdf to if you have it and can help me out. Thanks.
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