E9 tuning

Nashville tuning: E7, seventh chord subset of ninth chord.

E9 tuning is a common tuning for steel guitar necks of more than six strings. In particular, it is the most common tuning for the far neck on a two-neck table steel guitar or pedal steel guitar, most often combined with C6 tuning for the near neck, and also a popular tuning for single neck instruments of eight or more strings.

The E9 tuning has evolved to support optimal chord and scale patterns across a single fret on the 10-string pedal steel guitar.

Corresponding tunings for a six string lap steel guitar are the E6 tuning E-G♯-B-C♯-E-G♯, or E7 tuning B-D-E-G♯-B-E.

A popular E9 tuning for eight string table steel guitar is the western swing tuning E-G♯-B-D-F♯-G♯-B-E, low to high and near to far.

The standard Nashville E9 tuning for ten string pedal steel guitar is B-D-E-F♯-G♯-B-E-G♯-D♯-F♯.

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Steel guitar tunings indexes many tunings.

Guitar tunings

General

Standard DADGAD Nashville

Open (Slide and slack-key guitar)

Tuning	Repetitive	Overtones	Other (often most popular)

Open A Open B Open C Open D Open E Open F Open G	A-C♯-E-A-C♯-E B-D♯-F♯-B-D♯-F♯ C-E-G-C-E-G D-F♯-A-D-F♯-A E-G♯-B-E-G♯-B F-A-C-F-A-C G-B-D-G-B-D	A-A-E-A-C♯-E B-B-F♯-B-D♯-F♯ C-C-G-C-E-G D-D-A-D-F♯-A E-E-B-E-G♯-B F-F-C-F-A-C G-G-D-G-B-D	E-A-C♯-E-A-E B-F♯-B-F♯-B-D♯ C-G-C-G-C-E D-A-D-F♯-A-D E-B-E-G♯-B-E C-F-C-F-A-F D-G-D-G-B-D

Downtuned

E♭ D D♭ C B B♭

Dropped

Drop D Double drop D Drop C Drop B Drop A

Regular (semitones)

Unison (0) Minor thirds (3) Major thirds (4) All fourths (5) Augmented fourths (6) New standard (7⁴, 3) All fifths (7)

Repetitive (open pitches)

Trivial (1) Augmented fourths (2) Major thirds (3) English open-C (3) Russian open-G (3) Minor thirds (4)

Miscellaneous

Terz Bass guitar Steel guitar (C6, E9) Other instruments Musical tuning William Sethares

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E9 tuning

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