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Re: Junior browns tuning

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Posted by Ken Roll on February 27, 2001 at 12:59:53:

In Reply to: Junior browns tuning posted by rlwblues on February 25, 2001 at 01:16:14:

Dear RLW,
I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but Junior isn't playing 'slide' in the fashion thought of by most guitarists. Rather, he has a weird mutant double-necked instrument of his own design called a 'guit-steel', half Tele-like guitar and half 8-string steel guitar. He plays his 'slide' on the steel guitar neck with a steel bar, and he jumps from standard guitar to steel and back again like a rocket. My apologies if you already knew this, but to me, since I play both steel and slide, 'slide' is a Coricidin bottle on your finger used on a standard acoustic or electric guitar in either standard tuning or a D, E, or G tuning.

From my research, on the 8-string steel portion of his guit-steel, Junior uses a C13 tuning as follows, from low-pitched to high-pitched strings:

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Bb C E G A C E G

This tuning accomodates major, minor, sixth, dominant seventh, minor seventh, and, of course, thirteenth chords without having to use slants. (Use forward and reverse slants with this tuning and almost anything is possible!) With the chord's b7 on the 8th string, this still allows the lead playing on the upper seven strings that most non-pedal steel players using a C6 tuning are accustomed to. On my 3-neck non-pedal steel guitar, in addition to the A6 and E7 tunings used by most country and western swing players on two of the necks, I use Junior's tuning on my main neck for anything that I have to come up with something new on myself because it seems to be so versatile. Hope this helps you out. Mr. Brown, in my opinion, is just a monster guitar player who does really ingenious work.

Ken Roll
ken.roll@twave.net

P.S. If you're wondering, from what I gather, Junior uses standard tuning on the six-string guitar part of his guit-steel.

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: Dear RLW, : I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but Junior isn't playing 'slide' in the fashion thought of by most guitarists. Rather, he has a weird mutant double-necked instrument of his own design called a 'guit-steel', half Tele-like guitar and half 8-string steel guitar. He plays his 'slide' on the steel guitar neck with a steel bar, and he jumps from standard guitar to steel and back again like a rocket. My apologies if you already knew this, but to me, since I play both steel and slide, 'slide' is a Coricidin bottle on your finger used on a standard acoustic or electric guitar in either standard tuning or a D, E, or G tuning. : From my research, on the 8-string steel portion of his guit-steel, Junior uses a C13 tuning as follows, from low-pitched to high-pitched strings: : 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 : Bb C E G A C E G : This tuning accomodates major, minor, sixth, dominant seventh, minor seventh, and, of course, thirteenth chords without having to use slants. (Use forward and reverse slants with this tuning and almost anything is possible!) With the chord's b7 on the 8th string, this still allows the lead playing on the upper seven strings that most non-pedal steel players using a C6 tuning are accustomed to. On my 3-neck non-pedal steel guitar, in addition to the A6 and E7 tunings used by most country and western swing players on two of the necks, I use Junior's tuning on my main neck for anything that I have to come up with something new on myself because it seems to be so versatile. Hope this helps you out. Mr. Brown, in my opinion, is just a monster guitar player who does really ingenious work. : Ken Roll : ken.roll@twave.net : P.S. If you're wondering, from what I gather, Junior uses standard tuning on the six-string guitar part of his guit-steel.

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