BLUES GUARANTEED - E9th Non-Pedal Tuning (PDF Digital Download)

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BLUES GUARANTEED - E9th Non-Pedal Tuning (PDF Digital Download)

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Blues Guaranteed appeared on Jerry Byrd’s 1964 LP titled  Admirable Byrd - The Steel Guitar Magic Of Jerry Byrd (Monument – MLP 8014). Byrd was the absolute master of the non-pedal steel guitar and the originator of the C6th tuning. He was equally skilled on all the other non-pedal tunings. By 1964, however, Country music had changed and the pedal steel guitar now reigned supreme in this genre. Byrd set out to prove he could produce many of the sounds of the pedal steel via sheer technique and dexterity on non-pedal steel. As Byrd said, “I did an album called “Admirable Byrd” and I did a lot of pedal sounds in there ... not as good as the pedal guys could do it but it was that sound and it was still different. I wrote a lot of the tunes to show what you could do without pedals in an E9th tuning.”

E9th TUNING

STRING #  6    5  4    3  2    1

                   NOTES:  D E F# G# B E 

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Note: Midi audio usually sounds closer to a keyboard than a steel guitar but it is useful for demonstrating the rhythms, feel and overall intent of an arrangement or musical passage. Make this music come alive on your steel guitar!

From the currently out-of-print 'Amirable Byrd' album, in which the "master of touch and tone" uses his own version of the E9 tuning (E B G# F# E D B G#) to emulate the pedal steel on a non-pedal steel. This video contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of Jerry Byrd's E9th tuning. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this video is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.