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Roger Palmer


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Rossendale, UK
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 2:00 pm    
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Ive been messing about with this

hi to lo E B G# F# E B

just wondering what it is?
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Andy Volk


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 2:10 pm    
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E9th.
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Roger Palmer


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Rossendale, UK
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 2:15 pm    
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Cheers Andy

thought it might need a D somewhere to qualify for E9th (I wish I understood all this stuff)

Just finished reading your Lap steel book and I thought it was excellent Very Happy
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Steinar Gregertsen


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Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 3:08 pm    
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Eadd2 would possibly be the "correct" chord name, since there's no 7th present and the 2 is placed so 'deep' in the voicing and not on the top, but I have no idea if anybody would call a tuning that so perhaps Eadd9 or simply E9 would be the name used as a lap steel tuning....
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Andy Volk


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 3:38 pm    
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You're right, I think, Eadd9 is a better description as there's no b7th.

ps thanks, Roger.
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John Bechtel


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Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 6:57 pm    
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E9 or (E+9) Since F# is the 9th-tone in an E-chord, even though it's the 2nd-tone of the scale, in key-of-E. Chords are formed in order of: #1, #3, #5, #6, #7, #9, #11, #13. You can call the chord by the highest tone produced, regardless of what other tones are present below it in that key!
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Doug Beaumier


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Northampton, MA
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 7:37 pm    
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Yes, looks like Eadd9 (or Eadd2).
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George Keoki Lake


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Edmonton, AB., Canada
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 8:29 pm    
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Just change your 5th and 6th strings to D and E...Voila...a full E9th !
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Laurent Arams

 

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Edmonton,Alberta, Canada
Post  Posted 3 Jun 2009 9:09 pm     Great tuning
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Isn't my lap steel teacher smart? George Keoki Lake is trying his best to teach me all the Jedi secrets of that tuning. Slowly and painfully I might add on his behalf!
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Lee Baucum


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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
Post  Posted 4 Jun 2009 6:55 am    
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B6sus4?
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Joey Ace


From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Post  Posted 4 Jun 2009 9:55 am    
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You could make a case for it being
G#m aug 7


(Scale tones 1, b3, #5, b7)

But that's just silly. E add9
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Roger Palmer


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Rossendale, UK
Post  Posted 4 Jun 2009 11:51 am    
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Excellent...thanks guys.....if I keep posting this stuff I'll learn something Smile
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Grant Cuthbert

 

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Sydney, Australia
Post  Posted 4 Jun 2009 9:23 pm    
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Roger Palmer wrote:
Excellent...thanks guys.....if I keep posting this stuff I'll learn something Smile


that's the aim Wink
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