C6 Pedal Steel Tuning

There are many variations on the tuning of this neck.

C6 pedal steel tuning.

Once you re done with that you can check out some of my song tutorials. Some professional model pedal steel guitars have another neck on them closer to the player. E c a g e c. On the pedals tune any a or b note 7 10 cents flat.

Jimmy day used a high g. It evolved from the popular western swing steel guitar tunings of yesteryear when players would switch necks in mid phrase to get different kinds of chords. Tuning up your instrument understanding the harmonic layout of this tuning then the major and minor chords. Said tune the e s and a s 7 10 cents flat and the rest at 440.

The original c6 tuning was developed in 1939 by jerry byrd. 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. We re focusing here on the c6 high tuning variant in the video below which is more common and in our opinion best for all around playing in many different lap steel guitar styles. The g note gives a western swing sound c e g providing a higher major chord exactly as herb remington s a6.

On a six string neck for example on lap steel guitar c6 tuning is most usually c e g a c e bass to treble and going away from the player some other six string c6 tunings are. Later on jerry added a seventh string which he tuned to a c in order to get an a major chord open along with the am and the c. In this lesson i give you an introduction to c6 tuning for lap steel. Note 1 e 2 c 3 a 4 g 5 e 6 c 7 a 8 f 9 d 10 c simplicity of the standard pedal steel c6th copedent buddy emmons uses a high d.

About the c6 tuning. Stu basore s pedal steel c6th tuning. You don t need to learn a lot of things to get you started just start off with the basics. From lowest to highest strings it looks like this.

And for the c s tune them 15 20 cents flat try to lean as close to 440 as you can since it will keep pedal combos sounding acceptable. But many players tune it to the more or less standard c6 cega tuning which is similar to earlier lap steel tunings. The c6th jazz copedent in commonly applied to the back neck of a double neck d 10 pedal steel. Let s talk about c6th today.

It was a six string tuning. The tuning evolved to eight strings then ten. 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.