C6 Pedal Steel Tuning

The c6th jazz copedent in commonly applied to the back neck of a double neck d 10 pedal steel.

C6 pedal steel tuning.

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. There are many variations on the tuning of this neck. Some professional model pedal steel guitars have another neck on them closer to the player. In this lesson i give you an introduction to c6 tuning for lap steel.

You don t need to learn a lot of things to get you started just start off with the basics. But many players tune it to the more or less standard c6 cega tuning which is similar to earlier lap steel tunings. On the pedals tune any a or b note 7 10 cents flat. In fact if you tune everything 3 tones.

Said tune the e s and a s 7 10 cents flat and the rest at 440. Let s talk about c6th today. Stu basore s pedal steel c6th tuning. E c a g e c.

The original c6 tuning was developed in 1939 by jerry byrd. 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. Jimmy day used a high g. It was a six string tuning.

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. About the c6 tuning. 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. C6 tuning is one of the most common tunings for steel guitar both on single and multiple neck instruments on a twin neck the most common set up is c6 tuning on the near neck and e9 tuning on the far neck.

Tuning up your instrument understanding the harmonic layout of this tuning then the major and minor chords. 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. 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.

From lowest to highest strings it looks like this. 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. The tuning evolved to eight strings then ten.