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I have a 12uni coming this week. where can I find teaching information. Thanks Bob

Hi, Bob, I've recently moved to Universal tuning myself. I don't know if you have past experience with C6 playing, but any course materials you have for that will work on Uni. A great start are the Newman and Emmons C6 intro courses, you'll just have to adjust by a half step or one fret (If your tuning is E9/B6).
If you can find a copy, the Newman Universal course is excellent, as are Joe Wright's Uni DVDs, but I think you might get the best jump start working through the Newman and Emmons beginning C6 courses.
I'm looking forward to others chiming in with courses I haven't yet heard of!

I've been playing at the uni tuning for a couple of years now.... and I think that I'm about to shift over full time.

The Emmons C6 courses are really helpful in decoding the pedals and pockets. I do play adequate C6, so I could bring that over to the Uni. Of course, my C6 playing has always been secondary, and I rarely take a double neck out to gigs. I did learn to "fake" a enough C6 on the S-10 E9 to get by with the occasional song that I might need to play.

There was a book by Don Curtis "Don E Curtis C6 on E9 (A comprensive study) " I used it to help out with the faking.....
It used to be available from Scotty's. I played through that material a number of years before I ever sat down at a Uni, so the B6 positions were really familiar. Kind of a sideways way to think about it, but helpful. And more in line with the "one big tuning" approach.
I would encourage folks interested in the Uni to take a look at other C6 on E9 threads on the Forum... and the Herb Steiner swinging on E9 courses.

It's easy to adapt both C6 and E9 courses to the Uni. The Newman course on the Uni explains this clearly --- you can get that course from Billy Cooper's Music or directly from Jeffran.