Mike Auldridge- Introduction to 8 String Resophonic Steel Guitar Review
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MurkyMark - Posted - 03/11/2010: 10:54:44
Hello, my name is Mark - long fourth dimension guitar actor, total newbie to lap/reso...
I'm in the research phase of buying my 1st foursquare neck and I've noticed that eight-string units aren't too rare or expensive to consider.
That's set me to wondering if at that place are advantages and/or disadvantages to only starting out with an eight-string (and how they're normally strung/tuned). Open tuning is new for me already, then why non add two strings while I'one thousand at information technology?
otbreso - Posted - 03/xi/2010: 11:54:03
By and large the viii's are used for swing type music in a ninth type tuning (which I like) but I still got a mode to get with the half dozen's. To hear some smashing eight string, cheque out the Mike Auldridge album "eight string swing". Kinda lets a guy know what tin can be done with an eight.
Stringnut - Posted - 03/xi/2010: 18:00:20
You know Mark, I've been thinking forth those lines, too. I've played pedal steel for about 30 years and a couple of years agone I picked upwardly a reso with 6 strings and got hooked. But I love western swing and would love to own an viii cord reso for that reason. Beard just came out with a low cost 8 cord in the Gilt Tone line and I am really tempted. You can still play 6 string stuff the same way as on an eight string, just skip the quaternary and eighth strings (commonly tuned to E) for bluegrass. Only takes a picayune adjustment in your technique I would think. Then, yeah, why not?
Dan
MurkyMark - Posted - 03/eleven/2010: xix:22:07
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You can still play 6 cord stuff the same way as on an viii string, just skip the fourth and 8th strings (usually tuned to E) for bluegrass. Just takes a footling adjustment in your technique I would think.
No trouble -- specially seeing how I don't *have* any technique withal!
You likewise hit a couple of my hot buttons with your response: I would love to play me some western swing, and I figure if I go half decent on a squareneck my next new instrument will likely be a pedal steel...
And then is there a special place to become (or books to read) for 8-stringers, or is it a thing of scouring all the boards for random posts?
Am I correct in bold that the 'standard' 8-string tuning is EGBDEGBD? That's calculation 6ths; do yous but change the Es to As for 9th tuning?
Stringnut - Posted - 03/11/2010: 20:31:22
I had to dig around the internet to detect an old interview with Mike Auldridge where he revealed his 8 cord tuning and aye, that's where he mentioned the EGBDEGBD tuning he uses. He said he also uses a C6 tuning similar ACEGACE with either a high or low string D to fill out the 8 strings. Check out his website for eight string instructional material and I think Cindy Cashdollar has an 8/half-dozen string steel guitar DVD that may be of some help in understanding the western swing fashion that could as well exist practical to the resonator. I don't know of annihilation else out there that applies directly to 8 string resonator. You might bank check YouTube videos of a guy named Greg Booth. He uses a 6 string tuning which is EBDGBD in a lot of his arrangements and he does a really fine job on a couple of swing tunes. That low E comes in pretty handy. You might check out the Steel Guitar Forum, too. They have a steel without pedals department where you volition notice a lot of give-and-take of different tunings that y'all could try.Google, Google, Google until you tin't Google no more! There is a lot of information out there to stumble upon. It's a fun ride Mark. I started out as a guitar player about 40 years ago and information technology looks like you lot've been playing a while,too. Those skills will assistance a lot. The technique is all related.
Edited past - Stringnut on 03/eleven/2010 20:33:27
MurkyMark - Posted - 03/11/2010: 22:27:12
Wow -- cheers for the tips. I get the Google, of course, but I've e'er found that information technology helps to beginning with asking about what you lot should exist searching for...
Dean Upson - Posted - 03/12/2010: 03:48:57
Greg Booth uses a low E (Eastward-B-D-1000-B-D) tuning on his half dozen string and it sounds fantastic.
Edit: I just noticed that this tuning is mentioned in another post resohangout.com/topic/13019/#183615
Dean
Edited by - Dean Upson on 03/12/2010 03:55:08
Brad Bechtel - Posted - 03/12/2010: 06:58:53
I'm currently in Dallas at the Texas Steel Guitar Association Jamboree, and while here I got a take a chance to play the newly introduced eight cord Aureate Tone resonator guitar. It's merely like the other Paul Bristles models that Gold Tone sells (i.due east. high quality at a low price) but with eight strings.
The strings are closer together than six cord, which is to be expected. The sound is very fine, and I believe they should sell a lot of these for the cost (well nether $1000 USD).
They have information technology tuned to G6, bass to treble E G B D E Thou B D. It'southward not too difficult to get used to that E in between the standard G tuning.
I don't know when these will be available widely, but I'd certainly check them out when they are available.
kimmattis123 - Posted - 03/17/2010: 08:43:46
I have an eight and have used information technology for years. Its a really peachy instrument.- just the technique is a bit dissimilar. [ not much] the extra string to minor [ E in a G tuning] takes a while to get. and the scales are a bit different. If you are a strictly bluegrass guy- continue the 6. I notice great players similar use both on different occasions. I tin can only afford ane. And then I have the 8.
MurkyMark - Posted - 03/17/2010: ten:20:12
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Originally posted past kimmattis123
I take an viii and have used information technology for years. Its a actually great musical instrument.- but the technique is a flake dissimilar. [ non much] the extra string to minor [ E in a K tuning] takes a while to become. and the scales are a scrap different. If you lot are a strictly bluegrass guy- go on the 6. I notice great players like utilise both on different occasions. I tin simply afford 1. So I have the eight.
Like I said above, I don't accept *any* half-dozen-cord feel (other than what picayune I've picked upwardly re-tuning my regular acoustic guitar the concluding few weeks).
It's looking similar the existent difficulty is going to be finding instructional materials. Any pointers? Peradventure a site with more than two EGBDEGBD tabs? And if I'one thousand working with vi-string books, are they gonna teach me techniques (equally opposed to riffs) that don't translate to viii-string?
Strictly bluegrass? I'll be surprised if I cease up playing bluegrass even 25% of the time on information technology. All the players I hang with have eclectic tastes, and I'm really looking forward to the challenge of learning how to resonate with all different kinds of music.
And that only affording i reso is a big point, besides...
MurkyMark - Posted - 04/06/2010: 23:51:26
Whoopie! My new McKenna 8-string arrived today! 
(picture on my home page)
I don't have much direct experience to compare it to (I've tried out a couple of U.South. Beard squarenecks in a shop a month or 2 ago), but information technology sounds wonderful to me. Even without any particular chops I can make information technology sound well-baked & punchy or band similar a bell, and the tonal balance is nearly perfect, IMHO.
I've done a niggling woodworking, merely I tin can't imagine finishing anything too as this guitar, and the stain job is way above my grade, too. Fashion-wise, it's ultra simple, which is just the mode I like information technology.
I
amglad I jumped straight to the 8-string. Now that I've had information technology in my lap & explored a picayune I think the G6 tuning is going to be a lot more than useful for the range of music I expect to exist playing (as I've said elsewhere, bluegrass isn't likely to be more than than 25%).
Dang! Getting likewise late to play...
-- Mark
Stringnut - Posted - 04/07/2010: 03:39:07
Style to go Mark! Congratulations! I'd love to hear some sound bytes down the route later on you lot've had a take a chance to break her in. Now quit reading this and get back to playing.
Dan
Grizz - Posted - 04/07/2010: 06:48:00
Hey Mark, what Dan said....................Congratulations. Get the camera and video recorder out now. 
Mike
MurkyMark - Posted - 04/08/2010: 15:31:07
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...Congratulations. Get the camera and video recorder out now.
I'll try for some skilful pix this weekend, if I'm home enough during daylight to do information technology justice.
Every bit for video, you've got the wrong guy! I may be a Silicon Valley engineer <yawn>, just I'thousand also the kind of Luddite who has no use for webcams (even the ones we make!). Then there's the playing problem: I've got a
lot of work to practise before I'll be worth listening to for more than than xxx seconds at a time...
-- Mark
P.Due south.: Did I mention that going from my iii/4-size Martin Lx-1 (tuned to 1000 for exercise while waiting) to a existent 8-string reso was approximately similar going from having a couple of feet of 2x4 in your lap to something more similar a railroad necktie? 
This baby has a
neck!
Grizz - Posted - 04/08/2010: sixteen:09:01
That's cool Mark. When you lot can though I would similar to encounter some pics. I know what yous mean almost photos that do them justice. I am a amateur/semi pro photographer and I do not like indoor pictures unless yous have a studio gear up and I don't. The ones on my homepage are not very proficient. I'm going to take all the instruments outside for photos, I remember it lends itself to a more realistic truthful to life picture. I don't recall you will be getting rid of it someday soon 
and then when y'all tin can.
Mike
MurkyMark - Posted - 04/08/2010: xvi:15:17
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Originally posted by Grizz: ... I don't remember you will be getting rid of it anytime soon
Darn tootin'! It'south a keeper for sure.
When information technology comes to musical instrument shopping, I always look for ones that I tin't prototype getting too skillful for. Definitely succeeded with this one...
-- Mark
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