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Topic: Hawaiian: What tunings would you use? |
Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 29 Jun 2010 12:06 pm |
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I was thinking of fooling around with some Hawaiian stuff on my Fender Dual 8 Pro.
if you were to dedicated to 8 string necks for just Hawaiian, which ones would you choose? |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 29 Jun 2010 12:42 pm
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Probably C13 and B11
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2010 2:03 pm
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I get some well rounded mileage out of this embellished and very strum-able E major G# E C# B G# E B E
Lot's of old Hawaiian, country, blues, and Bo Diddley available here. |
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 29 Jun 2010 2:51 pm
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| A lot of old time Hawaiian players used the old C#Minor tuning. I believe even Herb Remington used a form of it when he played with Bob Wills. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 29 Jun 2010 2:53 pm
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I like C#min and used it for years, but as an 8 string tuning, not so much.
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Jerry Gleason
From:
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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Posted 29 Jun 2010 3:23 pm
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For Hawaiian music, I like C13 and B11, like Mike said.
There are variations of both of these, but this is what I prefer:
C13: Low to high- C, Bb, C, E, G, A, C, E
B11: Low to high- B, A, C#, D#, F#, A, C#, E
This converts to A6 (leaving out the bottom string) by just retuning the 5th string up a half-step. |
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2010 3:28 pm
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Hi Bill,
I own an 8 string non pedal steel and I play some Hawiiaan Music. If I had your double neck and wanted to play mostly Hawiiaan, I would use two tunings, B11 and C6.
The B11 tuning has a very distinctive Hawiiaan Sound to it and is heard in tunes like "Sand","Rainbows Over Paridise", "How Do Ya Do" and many others. You can switch from B11 to a more standard tuning of A6 by retuning the fifth string from D# to E. The B11 tuning has the distinction of having a 6th chord on strings 1-4, and a 9th chord on strings 2-5. For example: play a C6 chord at the 3rd fret on strings 1-4 and drop back to the 1st fret on strings 2-5 for a C9 chord.
The C6 tuning is reccomended simply because it is the most popular tuning and lots of material is available for low C6 tuning( GACEGACE low to hi).
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Jul 2010 6:00 pm
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| C6th 0r C13th seems to be the most versatile tuning for all around music including Hawaiian. C#M has a haunting sound to me which I like, but I find that tuning more difficult for all around music. |
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