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Hi

wonder which tunings(8 string) will be perfect for those pull-offs/hammer-ons/trills (don't know how to call it) used in a lot of western swing and vintage hillbilly steel playing ??!!

Please help, maybe someone has a cool lick to post !

Andy

In any major chord tuning, there are a lot of scale notes at the first and second frets that can be hammered. I do that a lot in E and D tunings. For example, in E13: <font face="monospace" size="3"><pre>
G# __0__1--0________________________________
E ___________2--0________0_________________
C# _________________________________________
B _________________0--2_____2--0___________
G# ________________________________1--0--1__
E ______________________________________0__
D _________________________________________
B _________________________________________
E7 A</pre></font>

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thanks....I'll give it a try.
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here's what I meant...just to make clear since I didn't have the correct name for it...
Andy
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Tele on 15 May 2000 at 11:44 AM.]</p></FONT>

The correct name is Buddy.
And I'm pretty sure that's C6, but b0b is right. Any tuning will allow you to approximate that type of trill. Unless I'm mistaken it's chromatic -- just an open string hammered on to the first fret repeatedly.

Sounds cool though, doesn't it?

LTB