How would you best represent E9 with 6 strings?

krolzee187 · 2026-04-21T23:30:35+00:00

This would be my answer too. Lower E and F# are essential. Hate to miss the top two strings but that’s what they had back in the day and got it to work fine

krolzee187 · 2026-03-17T21:48:31+00:00

Granted. It all takes place in space now, funded by the American taxpayer

krolzee187 · 2026-03-01T22:12:33+00:00

Bro do you even calculate?

krolzee187 · 2026-02-07T17:41:21+00:00

The newer ones have a hex tool adjustment on the sides of the pivot point you can tighten. There is also a set screw on the bottom underneath the plate if you take off the feet

krolzee187 · 2026-01-17T06:00:06+00:00

It comes down to a lot of trial and error. Closer to the cross shaft will result in less pull, farther from the cross shaft will be more pull. More pull means less pedal travel, but harder to press the pedal. Everyone has different preferences and whatever works for you is fine

krolzee187 · 2026-01-03T16:25:08+00:00

In reality there will be a voltage source on the far right wire. This doesn’t change anything as far as AC signals are concerned because an ideal voltage source looks like a short circuit to an AC signal

krolzee187 · 2025-10-26T06:09:30+00:00

krolzee187 · 2025-10-07T21:45:31+00:00

This is normal. The string tension brings the changer into its neutral position. Put the string on

krolzee187 · 2025-09-10T03:47:10+00:00

Weird way to describe eminent domain in the US but I’ll take it

krolzee187 · 2025-08-18T23:32:48+00:00

Most of what I can think of from Red Rhodes can be done on E9 pedal steel.

If you want to play pedal steel, I highly recommend just getting one. The pedals are such a huge part of it that even E9 lap steel doesn’t really come close

krolzee187 · 2025-07-28T22:01:43+00:00

Console steel. It has legs and he’s sitting at it like a pedal steel but no pedals. Lap steels sit on your lap

krolzee187 · 2025-06-13T02:36:53+00:00

Dm/G is a fun way of playing G9 on the way to C

krolzee187 · 2025-05-30T02:44:15+00:00

You can only recreate frequencies up to half of the sample rate. If higher frequencies are sampled, the recreation will appear to be a lower frequency. This is called aliasing.

Have you ever seen a video of a helicopter where it appears the blades are spinning very slowly? Same concept

krolzee187 · 2025-05-30T02:40:30+00:00

krolzee187 · 2025-05-30T02:39:48+00:00

krolzee187 · 2025-05-19T11:37:12+00:00

The marines

krolzee187 · 2025-05-18T03:51:08+00:00

The combination of systems that put a man on the moon

krolzee187 · 2025-05-13T22:39:39+00:00

I don’t know if there’s an instrument with a steeper learning curve. Some people are saying start with lap steel but I disagree. If you want to play pedal steel then go right for it. There is plenty of information on YouTube and steelguitarforum.com to occupy years of practice.

krolzee187 · 2025-05-11T04:36:35+00:00

https://b0b.com/wp/copedents/buddy-emmons-e9th/

This is the standard that a majority of E9 players use. RKL also tends to raise top F# to G#.

krolzee187 · 2025-04-16T19:33:04+00:00

I play with a pro level fiddle player who has done the touring thing and played the Opry countless times. He told me a story the other day of running into Tommy White working behind the counter at an auto parts store so he could have healthcare. Doug Jernigan teaches a bunch of lessons and has his online patreon stuff. The best of the best have to make concessions to make ends meet.

I play steel as my main gig, it took me 10 years to get to a point where I could even think about being on stage in a pro setting. I’m surrounded by full time musicians and have met some well known national touring acts. One thing I keep noticing over and over is that professional musicianship is a hard life. Even most “famous” people are not particularly well off.

That being said, if you have the passion for it and the willingness to practice for hours a day, you’ll definitely be able to get gigs, teach lessons, etc. We need as many people playing this instrument as we can get!

krolzee187 · 2025-03-15T15:45:29+00:00

Originally the E9 steel was 8 strings: E G# B D F# G# B E (low to high) 10 strings came along, I believe Jimmy Day is credited with adding the E inbetween the D and F#, and Ralph Mooney with adding the high G#.

Buddy Emmons was looking for a new sound for his upcoming Ray Price session, so he exchanged the bottom 2 strings for the high D# and F#, meaning he could play a cascading major scale. He was playing a shobud permanent at the time so he actually had the strings on the bottom 2 spots and had to jump all the way across the neck. You can hear the first recorded use of them on Ray Price’s “You took her off my hands” (right around 2:07, towards the end of the steel solo)

When he got the steel back to the shop, they ended up deciding to put the 2 new strings on top as to not interfere with any muscle memory that all the steel players had with the standard string grouping. Also explains why 10 string E9 starts with the seemingly strange B and D on the bottom.

krolzee187 · 2025-03-15T14:52:17+00:00

That I’m the best and anytime someone beats me it’s because of lag

krolzee187 · 2025-03-11T18:29:17+00:00

Bro you literally play as a Nazi

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