Pedal Steel Change Copedent

I also lower my tenth string with my c pedal.

Pedal steel change copedent. Each pair of numbers looks like a fraction represents a pull. In case you haven t noticed the steel guitar is an instrument with a lot of compromises. Ralph mooney s unique pedal steel copedent. The neck nearer to the player is tuned to c6 and five more pedals change the pitches of the strings on this neck as shown below.

It is the sound that the general public associates with the instrument. If you have an older gfi with only 6 hole bell cranks use hole 6 where hole 7 is indicated on. I like this change and sometimes i use it with my left left knee lever. Something we haven t really touched on much is studying other players copedent.

The copedent is the steel guitarist s way of saying this is how i tune my instrument it s a diagram showing where the pedals and levers are and what action they take on the strings. This can really help us in figuring out how different people play different things. Lloyd has pioneered many new steel sounds. In the language of pedal steel guitarists the combination of string tuning and pedal knee arrangement is called a copedent pronounced ko pee dent there are nearly as many pedal steel copedents as there are steel guitarists.

The second number is the hole in the bell crank used again with 1 being closest to the body. Music is an infinite study and the pedal steel guitar is a wonderful invention that can accommodate many different approaches to it. Note on rod charts. It is used in all kinds of music but it excels in country.

I would rather have the change with the pedal traveling a little much and pushing a little harder than to do without the change. I use tommy white s change lowering strings 5 and 6 individually which sounds awesome. Most pedal steel guitarists play steel guitars with two necks. Buddy charleton s change lowering string one from f to f is very interesting.

It is my hope that this web site will document the past highlight current trends and point the way to a future where the pedal steel is widely accepted in all kinds of music b0b lee 2019. Lloyd often uses the change on string one that raises f to g. But people set their knee levers up differently. The reason the copedent exists for steel guitar and not other instruments is that unlike other instruments there is no standard tuning for the steel guitar.

We have the two common pedal setups the jimmy day setup and the buddy emmons setup. These instruments use the e9 copedent shown above on the neck farther away from the player. Steel guitar tunings and copedents.