{"id":3849,"date":"2018-07-07T18:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T01:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2018-12-30T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:08:20","slug":"d6th-hybrid-on-s-10-4-pedals-5-levers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/2018\/07\/d6th-hybrid-on-s-10-4-pedals-5-levers\/","title":{"rendered":"D6th Hybrid on S-10, 4 pedals, 5 levers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Steel Guitar Forum<\/a>, Adam Tracksler asked about my hybrid D6th copedent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What would you use if you had 5 levers and 4 pedals? Which pedal and knee would you leave out?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an interesting question. I’d probably do a S-10 4+5 hybrid D6th like this:<\/p>\n

   LKL  LKV  LKR   P1   P2   P3   P4   RKL  RKR\r\nE            +F\r\nF#                      +G\r\nD  +D#  ++E                      ++E   -C#\r\nB                                ++C#      +C\/C#\r\nA                 ++B       -G#\r\nF#          --E         +G\r\nD  +D#                                (-C#)\r\nB                                           +C\r\nG       ++A                 +G#       \r\nD                           ++E\r\n<\/pre>\n
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Imagine for a minute that your E9th string 2 was tuned to C#, and your half stop lever raised it to D and D# (like Weldon Myrick). Then imagine moving that string to be string 4 instead of string 2, so that your top 6 strings are F# G# E C#<\/strong> B G#. Then lower it all a full step to be based in D instead of E. That’s how the hybrid D6th works. P1, P2 and all of the knee levers are standard E9th changes on the top 7 strings, but the strings they work on are tuned one step lower.<\/p>\n
This tuning doesn’t have the 7th and 10th strings of the E9th. It has the middle and low end intervals of the C6th instead. It’s a hybrid, not a universal.<\/p>\n
With just 4 pedals, you’d be missing the C6th P6, but you can get that essential change with P2+LKR and a tuneable split on the 6th string (which is what E9th players usually do anyway). It feels better on a pedal, but if you only have 4 pedals you can still have that functionality.<\/p>\n
With only 4 pedals, it’s totally missing C6th P8. The low P8 “boo-wah” changes could be added to LKL (the E9th “F Lever”) if you really need them, but they would be better on another pedal.<\/p>\n
The high half of the C6th P4 is there on RKR (string 4). I also have the 8th string full step raise with a half stop on my RKR, but it’s pretty tricky getting strings 4 & 8 to half-stop in sync on most guitars.<\/p>\n
On standard C6th there’s a high C to B lowering lever. The equivalent E9th lever lowers both E strings to D#. So, on the hybrid D6th I lower both D’s on RKL. I back out the nylon tuner if I’m playing a “mostly swing and jazz” gig.<\/p>\n
I hope this explanation makes sense. In the hybrid approach, you don’t have to hold a knee lever to switch from “E9th mode” to “C6th mode”. You are always in a D tuning. You go to the leftmost pedals for E9th licks and the rightmost pedals for C6th licks. The knee levers are shared between the two approaches.<\/p>\nVisit our online Steel Guitar Shopper store for strings, equipment, music, instructional videos and materials, hard to find reference materials and rare items.  https:\/\/www.steelguitarshopper.com\/","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On The Steel Guitar Forum, Adam Tracksler asked about my hybrid D6th copedent: What would you use if you had 5 levers and 4 pedals? Which pedal and knee would you leave out? It’s an interesting question. I’d probably do a S-10 4+5 hybrid D6th like this: LKL LKV LKR P1 P2 P3 P4 RKL…<\/p>\nVisit our online Steel Guitar Shopper store for strings, equipment, music, instructional videos and materials, hard to find reference materials and rare items.  https:\/\/www.steelguitarshopper.com\/","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2AUuS-105","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b0b.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}