Pedal Steel Guitar Tuning

Of course don t use the pedals or knees.

Pedal steel guitar tuning. With the need to have some versatility in playing songs in different keys and scales the. Steel guitar tunings and copedents. 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 pedal steel itself has four legs several foot operated pedals and often multiple knee operated levers that bend certain strings up and down.

Tuning the pedal steel guitar. The most common pedal steel guitars have 10 strings followed by universal 12 string instruments which purport to offer the same versatility as a double 10 string instrument 8 stringed instruments were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s they are less popular nowadays. Soon legs were added and the instrument was called a console steel. Older steel guitars as well as some student models required tuning some of the pedals and knee levers first and then the open strings.

So this tuning is called the e9 tuning. Fits 3 32 pull rods they are not threaded as it is best to force thread them onto the rod. 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. It has actually evolved over the years dating back to the early 1930 s with the electric lap steel.

Most modern pedal steel guitars use all pull changers and so this lesson will assume you have to tune the open strings first. The first seven 1 7 strings above are identical to the bottom seven open strings on the e9th pedal steel guitar. Pedal steel guitars are played by pressing a steel bar on top of the pedal steel guitar strings with one hand while plucking them with fingerpicks on the other hand. The e9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale.

Note range of the steel guitar. 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. E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings. Sgn products formally the steel guitar network sgn products pedal steel guitar standard replacement tuning nuts.

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. The admirable byrd lp and can be played on the e9th pedal steel guitar which is a chromatic tuning. 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.

In this video i thought that i would give a rundown on the e9 tuning and explain some of the mechanics involved with the.