uni material

[Bob Moore]

I have a 12uni coming this week. where can I find teaching information. Thanks Bob

[Mark van Allen]

Hi, Bob, I've recently moved to Universal tuning myself. I don't know if you have past experience with C6 playing, but any course materials you have for that will work on Uni. A great start are the Newman and Emmons C6 intro courses, you'll just have to adjust by a half step or one fret (If your tuning is E9/B6).
If you can find a copy, the Newman Universal course is excellent, as are Joe Wright's Uni DVDs, but I think you might get the best jump start working through the Newman and Emmons beginning C6 courses.
I'm looking forward to others chiming in with courses I haven't yet heard of!

[mike nolan]

I've been playing at the uni tuning for a couple of years now.... and I think that I'm about to shift over full time.

The Emmons C6 courses are really helpful in decoding the pedals and pockets. I do play adequate C6, so I could bring that over to the Uni. Of course, my C6 playing has always been secondary, and I rarely take a double neck out to gigs. I did learn to "fake" a enough C6 on the S-10 E9 to get by with the occasional song that I might need to play.

There was a book by Don Curtis "Don E Curtis C6 on E9 (A comprensive study) " I used it to help out with the faking.....
It used to be available from Scotty's. I played through that material a number of years before I ever sat down at a Uni, so the B6 positions were really familiar. Kind of a sideways way to think about it, but helpful. And more in line with the "one big tuning" approach.
I would encourage folks interested in the Uni to take a look at other C6 on E9 threads on the Forum... and the Herb Steiner swinging on E9 courses.

[Matthew Beall]

It's easy to adapt both C6 and E9 courses to the Uni. The Newman course on the Uni explains this clearly --- you can get that course from Billy Cooper's Music or directly from Jeffran.