E9th string 10 lower to A

Gary Hegland · Post by **Gary Hegland** » 10 Dec 2018 1:03 pm

Does anybody lower the 10th string to A? Is it on a special lever or a "standard" one?

Rick Bernauer · Post by **Rick Bernauer** » 10 Dec 2018 3:35 pm

Yes - Fred Justice introduced me to this. I have it on the RKR lever so that when I lower the 2nd string (half-stop D then down to C#) the 9th string lowers from D to C# and then the 10th string B drops down to A. Nice low note resolution if you treat the open (no pedals) chord as the dominant 7th (E7) and then drop to the I chord (A-C#-E on 10-9-8 strings). Works well for me on that knee lever.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 10 Dec 2018 5:23 pm

Many, many players do this. It's part of the Paul Franklin pedal, used by itself or along with string 5 lower to A. Very common change.

Ian Worley · Post by **Ian Worley** » 10 Dec 2018 7:30 pm

My first guitar was a Fender 800, 10 pedals, no knees. It had the 10th string lower to A on the 'B' pedal along with the standard string 3 and 6 raises, and string 9 lowered to C# on the 'A' pedal along with the raise on 5. Unconventional, but it was cool. Gave some interesting counter-movement and a nice A6 chord across the lower 8 strings. Pedals down it was basically the same as pedals down on a standard uni tuning where there's no D string.

admin · Post by **b0b** » 10 Dec 2018 8:38 pm

It works well on the C pedal.

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 10 Dec 2018 9:10 pm

I leave it tuned to A no changes at all, makes pedal 1 really easy!!!

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 11 Dec 2018 3:34 am

b0b wrote:It works well on the C pedal.

It does, - I had it on a Fessy I bought, it came that way. However it made the action on the C pedal ungodly hard..
Could barely push it, and I use the c pedal a lot.. Had to take it off.. Might work on a guitar with softer pedal action... bob

Pete Burak · Post by **Pete Burak** » 11 Dec 2018 7:38 am

Lowering String-12 B-to-A on the A-pedal is an excellent change for Universal.

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 11 Dec 2018 9:41 am

On my D-10's I had in on "RKLF":

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/Tab/Split%20 ... 20Tab.html

Check out the tabs and sound files at the above link for "LKRF" that isolate that change.

Gary Hegland · Post by **Gary Hegland** » 11 Dec 2018 10:51 am

Thanks for the knowledge. I've been playing for 38 years and never noticed the low A until recently when I studies "A Slow One for Peggy".