The Steel Guitar Forum

I know this is not a new topic but finding any formal instruction (book/dvd/video series) on either E7 or E13 seems very difficult to find.

Is there a gold nugget somewhere I've just missed?

Thanks!

Jim,
How is your E-13 tuned? Some are the same sound as C13 or C-6 If that's the case then you could play any song TAB for C-6. You would just be in a different key.

I was going with:

E
C#
B
G#
F#
D
G#
E

Wanted a sound a little different that C6th

JIM,

The Hawaiian steel players that use the triple neck steel guitars tune there middle neck
close to your tuning.From low to high.EG#BDF#G#C#E This tuning is called C#mi7or9
There are songs played in this tuning .You might come across some old OAHU sheet music somewhere.I guess we would have to say your tuning is used along with C-6 or another tuning and you would have too jump necks to get those nice 13th chords that are in your tuning.
Hope I helped a little,Keep on pick'n
DON

There is the Roger Fileberto E7th book available from Mel Bay.

The old Oahu PN course was E Maj and the PT course was E7th.

A couple other books I could tell you if I weren't on the road and could look around the music area.

I managed to collect a fair amount of Oahu music folios in E7th, mainly on eBay.

John Limbach wrote:...

I managed to collect a fair amount of Oahu music folios in E7th, mainly on eBay.

Nice. I will keep my eyes peeled on eBay for some of this

Hi Jim
Your E13 tuning is/was played by a number of big name players, Cindy Cashdollar, John Ely, Herb Remmington, Leon McAuliffe and Lee Jefferies.
Wish there was some instruction material, but I don't know of any.
I have that tuning on my Stringmaster, but am at the very early stage of figuring it out...Jerry

Jim,

John Ely has developed quite a lot a written material for the McAuliffe E13th tuning you've got. I've found his studies to be incredibly helpful in unlocking the tuning beyond the usual straight across the bar strums, and I wouldn't be surprised if he has great material for non-pedal E7th or E9th. If you can, I'd recommend setting up Skype lessons with him to work on the tuning one-on-one. He's posted some sound samples here: http://www.hawaiiansteel.com/audio/audio1.php

By the way, do you have this Leon McAuliffe album? He's playing loads of tasteful E13 and his steel is very well recorded, so it's easier to pick out his parts from the record.
http://www.amazon.com/Tulsa-Straight-Ah ... +mcauliffe

Best of luck with the tuning. It's a beast!

Here's one:

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=169221

about 11th down the page.

I wonder what happened to Ricky's page and himself?