These tunings are possible on a lap steel or square neck Dobro that can take the extra stress, but could cause damage on a round-neck resonator or standard guitar. They also sometimes raise it up to “High-A”: A-C#-E-A-C#-E. David Lindley is another player who uses transposed variations of these tunings.īluegrass and Country Dobro players using a square-neck instrument tend to favor an altered G tuning, often called “High-G”, where the 6th string is tuned up to “G” instead of down to “D”, and the 5th string is also tuned up, to B: G-B-D-G-B-D. Joe Perry of Aerosmith uses Open E on his electric lap steel. Most Rock and Blues players use open G/open A or open D/open E. During the 1920s and 1930s, much of the sheet music written for lap steel utilized open A tuning as the de facto standard tuning for the instrument. Sometimes an extended chord like a 6th, 7th, or 9th.
Usually they are tuned to an open chord like G, D, E or even A. Lap steel guitars are not tuned in standard guitar tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E, low to high). Tunings I learned from several sources including Wikipedia
I am a horrible lap steel player, but still a fun time trying. GE Smith Tele was inspired by Fender Lap Steel
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