Lap Steel Guitar Tuning Hawaiian

These sets will work on hawaiian lap steels some table steels and some pedal steel guitars.

Lap steel guitar tuning hawaiian. The original tuning for playing hawaiian music on the hawaiian guitar was a either high bass or low bass. Today most open tunings for lap steel guitar fall into 3 primary categories. One you laid on your lap the other one you stuck under your arm. We carry string sets designed for g high bass g d am am6 am7 c6 and c7 tunings.

The e13th and diatonic tunings have very little repetition of notes so they are not as easy to conceptualize. Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings. Remove two or four strings and you have your lap steel string gauges. B11 tuning for lap steel guitar.

Either the hawaiian guitar or the spanish guitar. Instruction for hawaiian and lap steel guitar including information on tunings arrangements in tablature and covering hawaiian western swing and country playing styles. Open a raises each of those notes a whole tone 2 frets to e a e a c e. C6 and a6 are extremely versatile tunings for 6 and 8 string lap steel.

There are a few variations of the tuning. Part of it is a6 and the other part is b7 b9 b11. The 8 string version i m discussing here is high to low e c a f d c b a. E c a g e c.

You ll recognize sounds while your learning and playing the steel guitar. Designed to fit in your guitar case slide rules includes over 70 of the. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars. Hawaiian lap steel guitar strings are designed to be used only on steel guitars.

Scale positions on the top strings translated directly to the bottom strings. It won t sound hawaiian or country if you don t play it like you would for country or hawaiian music. Blues and rock open g open a or open d open e open g is tuned d g d g b d. Also it s important to listen to lots of hawaiian steel guitar so you ll become familiar with the sounds and get them into your mind.

It s the most comprehensive lap steel course i know of. Brad bechtel s excellent website is chock full of tunings. It s a combination tuning. B11 is rich in 9th and 7th chords and works especially well for hawaiian songs.

Start with c6th high to low. The earliest hawaiian lap steel tuning was open a low bass e a e a c e.