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Topic: Tuning Idea: E11 |
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From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 8 Aug 2011 11:30 am |
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I have D6 on my pedal steel, with a G as the low (8th) string. I often use a pedal that lowers the G to E, which gave me the idea for this non-pedal tuning:
F#
D
B
A
F#
D
B
E
Technically it's an E11th chord, but in practice I'm sure I'd play it mostly as D6th on the high strings. I think that the low E would be really handy in blues and rock. Has anyone here ever tried this tuning?
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Ryan Barwin
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 9 Aug 2011 3:02 pm
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I've tried it, but in C. (My S-8 is tuned to FACEGACE and I've tried tuning the F down to a D).
The low E is cool for some chords (there's cool voicings for F#m11, Bm11, D6/9, D13 with a string pull, etc) but I don't like the big gap between the 7th and 8th strings and I don't like losing the b3 in the II chord and the root of the IV chord.
Didn't find it all that useful for blues/rock stuff, and it's hard to do single note runs on the low end of the tuning.
But I think it would work a lot better as a 9 string tuning...EGBDF#ABDF#.
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Lee Cecil
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 9 Aug 2011 3:36 pm
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| With the E on the bottom, that tuning sounds like a suspension chord to me, and my ear wants to resolve that A to a G# for the major third which gives a big lush E9 chord. Hard to do on a non-pedal steel, though. |
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