diatonic triads for C6

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diatonic triads for C6

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In C major. This is like playing only white keys on a piano.

[tab]
C d- e- F G a- Bdim C

3. 0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12
5. 0 2 4 5 7 9 11(E) 12
6. 0 2(F) 4(F)5 7 9(F)11(F) 12
7. 0 2 4 5 7 9 11 12

and

4. 3 5 7 8 10 12 14 15
6. 3 5 7 8 10 12 14(F)15
7. 3(H)5 7 8(H)10(H)12 14 15(H)
8. 3 5 7 8 10 12 14 15
[/tab]

Practicing this sort of thing help me to understand the tuning.
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Thanks a lot, Bob!
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Post by Ricky Davis »

Beautiful Bob and what a great place to start from.
Those wanting to understand the C6 neck more; should bury this in their head and building from there comes so much easier.
Thanks Bob Hoffnar.
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Good theory stuff.
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Post by Bob Hoffnar »

If you mix both of those grips you can play all the diatonic chords except the Bdim without any pedals.

C grip#1
d- grip#2
e- grip#2
F grip#1
G grip#1
a- grip#2

I'm not the greatest C6 player to put it mildly but practicing this sort of thing makes it so I can visualise the neck a bit better and play what I hear.

Bob


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Thanks alot Bob I am trying to learn just why I bought the other neck on my Steel.
I know it cost to much just to have an armrest. You guys do'nt know how much you mean to us that are still in the dark on alot of things.


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Thanx Bob, real Neet+ darn Handy.
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Post by James Harrison »

Bob Hoffnar, I have been trying for 77 years to become unstupid, but your first entry has me stumped. I mostly play E6 and Dobro G. I want to learn other tunings, but I cannot tell the frets or strings in the post. If it is too hard to explain that is OK. I am still trying to get unstupid.
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Post by Steve Norman »

:idea: light just clicked on,Thanks! :idea:

James,,Numbers on the left are string grips,,the fret is the column under the Notes,

first one,,cmaj at fret o, strings 3,5,6,7, etc
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C6 diatonic chords

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Are the letters for C6 pedals a continuation of the E9 ABC? i.e., E=pedal 5, F=pedal 6, etc.??

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thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been searching for this
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Post by Al Marcus »

Good start. Glad to see all the interest in C6...al.:) 8) 8)
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Thank you Bob

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Post by Eldon Cangas »

Could someone please explain what grips 1 and 2 are. There must be a few more perhaps a short list would be beneficial. Thanks. Eldon
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Eldon Cangas wrote:Could someone please explain what grips 1 and 2 are. There must be a few more perhaps a short list would be beneficial. Thanks. Eldon
Are you referring to Bob Hoffnar's 2nd post? The way I read it was.... I thought Bob was referring to his own original post where he'd outlined 2 ways of playing the same chord.
The chord name is along the top - so C can be played with (fret 0,0,0,0) using strings 3 5 6 7 or (3,3,3H,3) using strings 4 6 7 8
...so Grip #1 = strings 3 5 6 7
Grip #2 = strings 4 6 7 8

So in his 2nd post he notes that you can find a version of the chord without levers/pedals except for the Bdim chord.....making sense?

There're obviously "standard" grips (these being 2 of them)...but I havent seen them numbered before...somebody out there may have a numbering system!
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This is very nice stuff. I learned by tablature in the later 1940's thanks to Oahu Music. I still play by tab. So this all makes instant sense because I must rely on tab.
I can play all of my C6th tab music written for 6 and 8 string non pedal automatically on the C6th neck of course.
Then I have been able to slowly remember what each pedal will do for me to avoid playing a slant.
It is a wonderful thing for those players that can play steel by notes. I can read music, sing from notes but I never was able to transfer note reading to steel guitar. Tab is it for me.
So I found these books to be very helpful, and there are so many more. The Sharp Music Manual for simplified music theory, Mike Neer's Steelin' Scales & Modes book, and Doug Beaumier's C6th tab books to name only a few as we have so many good tab books available from so many of our steel friends. These just happen to be the first ones I bought in recent years. I have all of Scotty's C6th books and so many others as well.
The common string grips on 6 string C6th are 1,2,3; 2,3,5; 3,5,6; and 1,2,4; 2,4,5; and 4,5,6. first 3 grips involve the 6th note. The second 3 grips do not.
On 10 string those grips then are 2,3,4; 3,4,6; 4,6,7; and 2,3,5; 3,5,6; and 5,6,7.
Perhaps this info may not be much help but it sure has allowed me to be active on my C6th neck too.
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