Lap Steel Guitar Tuning Hawaiian

Start with c6th high to low.

Lap steel guitar tuning hawaiian.

Instruction for hawaiian and lap steel guitar including information on tunings arrangements in tablature and covering hawaiian western swing and country playing styles. Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings. Designed to fit in your guitar case slide rules includes over 70 of the. Either the hawaiian guitar or the spanish guitar.

Brad bechtel s excellent website is chock full of tunings. The 8 string version i m discussing here is high to low e c a f d c b a. Open a raises each of those notes a whole tone 2 frets to e a e a c e. Remove two or four strings and you have your lap steel string gauges.

Blues and rock open g open a or open d open e open g is tuned d g d g b d. There are a few variations of the tuning. It s the most comprehensive lap steel course i know of. The original tuning for playing hawaiian music on the hawaiian guitar was a either high bass or low bass.

E c a g e c. 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. C6 and a6 are extremely versatile tunings for 6 and 8 string lap steel. You ll recognize sounds while your learning and playing the steel guitar.

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. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars. 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. Hawaiian lap steel guitar strings are designed to be used only on steel guitars. It s a combination tuning. B11 tuning for lap steel guitar.

We carry string sets designed for g high bass g d am am6 am7 c6 and c7 tunings. One you laid on your lap the other one you stuck under your arm. 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.

Today most open tunings for lap steel guitar fall into 3 primary categories. These sets will work on hawaiian lap steels some table steels and some pedal steel guitars.