C6th: The Cop-out Neck

[Jeff Lampert]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL> I meant Es flatted not sharped! Sorry.
AB pedals down by releasing B

Don't get it. Which strings? Which pulls?

Either major triad?!? What’s hard to understand about that?
Fret 3: A pedal only= Cmaj7</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's no tonic in any of these applications. Your basic C Major7 from bottom up is C,E,G,B. Can you play this anywhere on E9 with a workable grip? You can do it in two places on C6. And I know you can leave out the tonic if the bass player plays a C note, but that isn't the point. The point is to see what you can do, before you start leaving stuff off.

[Bobby Lee]

There are jazz chords all over the E9th neck, but they are laid out a lot more logically on the C6th neck.

Also, if you use just intonation (or meantone) on the E9th, some of the jazz chord positions won't be in tune. Having a second neck that specializes makes a lot of sense if you play songs with jazz chords very often.

I'm moving this post to the 'Pedal Steel' section.

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