Pedal Steel Tuning E9

The number above the chord is the fret you place your bar on to play that chord.

Pedal steel tuning e9.

In particular it is the most common tuning for the far neck on a two neck table steel guitar or pedal steel guitar most often combined with c6 tuning for the near neck and also a popular tuning for single neck instruments of eight or more strings. The chart below shows the same chords and the chord positions on e9 pedal steel guitar. How to understand overtones when tuning a pedal steel guitar. So this tuning is called the e9 tuning.

As i said before this is an e9th chromatic tuning. A brief summary of what e9 buys you as a player will also be presented in the context of. Learn how to tune to e9 chromatic in this howcast video about how to tune a pedal steel guitar. In this video i thought that i would give a rundown on the e9 tuning and explain some of the mechanics involved with the.

Note range of the steel guitar. How to tune to e9 chromatic on a pedal steel guitar. Pick any combination of strings 3 4 5 6 8 10 to play the chords. While there are many variations in use among today s players this page will concentrate on the most common pedal and knee lever arrangements.

Steel guitar tunings and copedents. In the language of pedal steel guitarists the combination of string tuning and pedal knee arrangement is called a copedent pronounced ko pee dent there are nearly as many pedal steel copedents as there are steel guitarists. Okay how do you tune this thing. The e9 neck of the steel guitar has a range that starts with an open string b that is 2 b s below middle c.

The e9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale. Hello and welcome to steel picking. The tuning of the open strings more or less makes up the notes of the e9 chord an e9 chord is spelled e g b d f. E9 pedal steel guitar chord positions.

The pedal steel guitar is usually tuned to either e9 or c6 or both in the case of a double neck but there are other tunings. E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings.