C6 Pedal Steel Tuning

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

C6 pedal steel tuning.

Once you re done with that you can check out some of my song tutorials. It was a six string tuning. 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.

There are many variations on the tuning of this neck. 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. 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 c6th jazz copedent in commonly applied to the back neck of a double neck d 10 pedal steel.

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. 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. 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.

The g note gives a western swing sound c e g providing a higher major chord exactly as herb remington s a6. The tuning evolved to eight strings then ten. 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. In this lesson i give you an introduction to c6 tuning for lap steel.

From lowest to highest strings it looks like this. Said tune the e s and a s 7 10 cents flat and the rest at 440. Jimmy day used a high g. A c e g a c e g this tuning also goes by the name am7 since when you add in the lower a on the 8th string you get a perfect am7 chord a c e g.

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. 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. E c a g e c.

In fact if you tune everything 3 tones. About the c6 tuning. 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.