E13 lap steel download files

Chords are nothing but possible harmony notes to be played against the melody. It can be achieved in 2 notes as well as 4 or Bill McCloskey wrote:. Thanks Lane. I fantasize from time to time about adding pedals.

At heart I am an acoustic dobro player, who dabbles in lap steel. Looking at the six string pedals always gives me a Jones to explore pedals. But then I look at the mechanics, and I freeze.

I did say that. About 10 years back, when I was playing dobro and lap steel I also jonesed to play trumpet. Which I then proceeded to do for the next 5 years, eventually playing flugelhorn in a jazz band in Manhattan.

That was because I wanted to play jazz and for me, jazz is all about the brass and reeds. But none of that has anything to do with what I said. If you need to play a certain repertoire, you are a western swing player who is required to play Boot Heel Drag every night, that is going to indicate your tuning.

If you are in a very traditional country band, you are going to have to play pedals. And you are going to be asked to play the solos exactly the way they appear on the record.

But if you just want to play music, certainly tuning doesn't matter. If it did, Rob Ickes and Jerry Douglas wouldn't be playing jazz. If you are trying to replicate the past, you are confined to how the past played it. If your goal is to be a musician, you can achieve that with any tuning. This obsession with tunings, and how many straight bar chords you can play is a waste of time. Your time is better spent learning the tuning you have and figuring out how to make music on it.

When I played trumpet, I never played two notes at the same time. What recording would be best to hear this song done on non pedal? Also, I was wondering how your making your tab, looks real clean. I write all my tab on "notepad" in windows I understand now why several of the guys on No Peddlers said that, given the choice they would use this version of the E13 in conjunction with a C6th tuning everytime.

There isn't a real big learning curve here if you're already use to playing E9. Download my PDF here. Download my Tabledit file here. Note that Mike Neer does a related tab for Blue Monk with a fantastic lesson on tenths. And yeah, Frankie did tell me stories that made my head spin around like a top! Did I get something wrong? Follow Following. A fellow should be able to play most any type of gig with that. At worst,you could do as I do;sit there and look confident. This tuning is great for western swing, Hawaiian, regular 'crying pedal sounds, etc.

I'm playing this every weekend at the Manvel Opry close to Houston. If you are in the area, come by and check it out. The computers messed up the format of the tuning chart. If interested, please send me an e-mail and I will send chart. I've been trying to figure that one out for a while! Jan 14, Age: 81 Posts: 3, Having played pedal and lap steels for many years I'll respectfully have to disagree on C6th.

If you're coming over from guitar it'll just give you another headache in trying to remember where your chord positions are It's just a C6th tuned one fret flat and the chord positions would correspond to what you already know on guitar such as a closed D7 chord is found starting on the third fret, same in this tuning, 3rd fret D6, E at the 5th fret, F at the 6th, etc. Another good thing about this tuning is that you just tune retune the 1st and 5th strings up a half tone to E and you've got an E tuning with a II on the 4th string which is very useful If you wanted to ape the old Don Helms stuff, he almost exclusively use an E13th tuning which would be usually found on an 8 string instrument but I've used it on a six stringer before.

You have to have a high G string in the 1st position. With that, you could almost exactly copy just about any Hank Sr. He did a couple on C6th but they were very rare. Jerry Byrd also cut some things with Hank Sr. What's good about this tuning is you can retune the 1st string D to E and the 3rd string G to G and you have a nice E7 tuning good for rock, blues, country and all that. Lastly, the good old open E tuning. If I only had one tuning and had to play everything on it and could never use another tuning this would be it There's the blues factor, the rock power chords, and then there's all that sweet old "ting-a-ling" country that Little Roy Wiggins played on those old Eddy Arnold and George Morgan records.

That was all played on open E. With bar slants you can really get a lot of stuff out of this tuning!