Lap Steel Guitar Tuning Hawaiian

We carry string sets designed for g high bass g d am am6 am7 c6 and c7 tunings.

Lap steel guitar tuning hawaiian.

Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings. It s a combination tuning. It won t sound hawaiian or country if you don t play it like you would for country or hawaiian music. Instruction for hawaiian and lap steel guitar including information on tunings arrangements in tablature and covering hawaiian western swing and country playing styles.

The 8 string version i m discussing here is high to low e c a f d c b a. Either the hawaiian guitar or the spanish guitar. B11 tuning for lap steel guitar. Hawaiian lap steel guitar strings are designed to be used only on steel guitars.

One you laid on your lap the other one you stuck under your arm. These sets will work on hawaiian lap steels some table steels and some pedal steel guitars. Scale positions on the top strings translated directly to the bottom strings. C6 and a6 are extremely versatile tunings for 6 and 8 string lap steel.

Hawaiian lap steel guitar strings are available in many different tunings. Open a raises each of those notes a whole tone 2 frets to e a e a c e. B11 is rich in 9th and 7th chords and works especially well for hawaiian songs. The e13th and diatonic tunings have very little repetition of notes so they are not as easy to conceptualize.

Blues and rock open g open a or open d open e open g is tuned d g d g b d. It s the most comprehensive lap steel course i know of. Today most open tunings for lap steel guitar fall into 3 primary categories. The earliest hawaiian lap steel tuning was open a low bass e a e a c e.

There are a few variations of the tuning. Brad bechtel s excellent website is chock full of tunings. E c a g e c. When i started my musical adventure there were only two types of guitars.

Start with c6th high to low. Remove two or four strings and you have your lap steel string gauges. Part of it is a6 and the other part is b7 b9 b11. Tunings for lap steel bottleneck resophonic and indian slide guitar covers tunings for 6 8 and 10 string guitars.

The original tuning for playing hawaiian music on the hawaiian guitar was a either high bass or low bass. You ll recognize sounds while your learning and playing the steel guitar.