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Brian Henry
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Posted 3 Apr 2013 3:51 am |
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My lap steel is tuned to e9th b e g# b e g#. Lowest to highest. I can play over. 100 tunes on it. I like the sound of the Leavitt tuning but after about two hours of trying it I could not even find one scale, let alone one tune. What am I missing?
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 3 Apr 2013 5:05 am
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that tuning wasnt invented to play 3 chord tunes
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Stephen Cowell
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Round Rock, Texas, USA
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Posted 3 Apr 2013 5:49 am Re: Leavitt tuning
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| Brian Henry wrote: |
| My lap steel is tuned to e9th b e g# b e g#. Lowest to highest. |
Where's the 9th? Looks like Emaj, with the 5 in the bass. For a 9th, doesn't there have to be an F# in there somewhere?
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 3 Apr 2013 6:39 am
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| My lap steel is tuned to e9th b e g# b e g#. Lowest to highest. |
That's E major, not E9
The 9th chord formula is 1, 3, 5, 7b, 9
So for E9 you need E, G#, B, D, F#
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| I like the sound of the Leavitt tuning but after about two hours of trying it I could not even find one scale, let alone one tune. What am I missing? |
The Leavitt tuning is good for jazz tunes with altered chords, but it's not an easy tuning to play. It doesn't allow for much strumming. It requires very selective picking of the strings.
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Peter den Hartogh
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Edward Meisse
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Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 7 Apr 2013 7:38 pm
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Roy Thompson also has some instructional material and tabs. As does that other guy whose name I can never remember.  Sorry.
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