Lap Steel Guitar Tuning Hawaiian

Brad bechtel s excellent website is chock full of tunings.

Lap steel guitar tuning hawaiian.

Hawaiian lap steel guitar strings are designed to be used only on steel guitars. It s a combination tuning. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars. E c a g e c.

There are a few variations of the tuning. We carry string sets designed for g high bass g d am am6 am7 c6 and c7 tunings. B11 tuning for lap steel guitar. Steel guitar really shines as a melody instrument and on lap steel fully harmonized melodies are not only possible but sometimes required.

Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings. Scale positions on the top strings translated directly to the bottom strings. Part of it is a6 and the other part is b7 b9 b11. Designed to fit in your guitar case slide rules includes over 70 of the.

Blues and rock open g open a or open d open e open g is tuned d g d g b d. You ll recognize sounds while your learning and playing the steel guitar. Start with c6th high to low. B11 is rich in 9th and 7th chords and works especially well for hawaiian songs.

Instruction for hawaiian and lap steel guitar including information on tunings arrangements in tablature and covering hawaiian western swing and country playing styles. One you laid on your lap the other one you stuck under your arm. It won t sound hawaiian or country if you don t play it like you would for country or hawaiian music. Today most open tunings for lap steel guitar fall into 3 primary categories.

The 8 string version i m discussing here is high to low e c a f d c b a. The earliest hawaiian lap steel tuning was open a low bass e a e a c e. Hawaiian lap steel guitar strings are available in many different tunings. C6 and a6 are extremely versatile tunings for 6 and 8 string lap steel.

These sets will work on hawaiian lap steels some table steels and some pedal steel guitars. Remove two or four strings and you have your lap steel string gauges. Open a raises each of those notes a whole tone 2 frets to e a e a c e. When i started my musical adventure there were only two types of guitars.

The e13th and diatonic tunings have very little repetition of notes so they are not as easy to conceptualize. It s the most comprehensive lap steel course i know of.