8 String Lap Steel Guitar Tuning

1 e 2 c 3 a 4 f 5 e 6 c 7 a 8 c.

8 string lap steel guitar tuning.

From lowest to highest strings it looks like this. Designed to fit in your guitar case slide rules includes over 70 of the. Only 16 left in stock order soon. Good for western swing and has an a minor on the 8th string.

Used by marty rifkin. 8 string guitar tuning for lap steel guitars in c6. The 8th string is the same gauge and pitch as the 6th string. Andy volk has written an excellent guide to steel guitar tunings.

Depending on the song and what riffs i want to use i will either tune the low 6th note to a 6th or a 7th making the high 6th note a 13th. Part of it is a6 and the other part is b7 b9 b11. Here s a really simple overview of the c6 c13 and a6 tunings for 8 string lap steel. The 8 string version i m discussing here is high to low e c a f d c b a.

4 7 out of 5 stars 3. There are a few variations of the tuning. C6 tuning 8 string lap steel dobro guitar chords chart. 1 g 2 e 3 c 4 b 5 g 6 e.

Tuning 8 string lap steel 6 string lap steel 10 string lap steel 12 string lap steel the most common lap steel guitars have 6 strings followed by 8 string instruments which is the choice of many professionals 6 8 stringed instruments have been very popular since the 1940s and 1950s 10 12 and even 14 stringed instruments are also not. B11 tuning for lap steel guitar. There are different tunings for the lap steel guitar but three of the most popular are the high g high a and the c6 tuning. Six seven and eight string lap steel guitar tunings.

While it is important to learn how to play chords and scales on the lap steel guitar it is almost as important to first know which tuning you are going to use and how to get your instrument into that tuning. Tuning used by joaquin murphey. It s a combination tuning. B11 is rich in 9th and 7th chords and works especially well for hawaiian songs.

See the table below for a summary of these tunings in terms of string gauges tuning and scale notes. Remove two or four strings and you have your lap steel string gauges. 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.