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Location: Location Location Location | I set up my 1127-4 in DADGAD using medium strings. I usually play lights, but going from standard tuning to DADAD seemed to be about the same tension as light gauge. Anyway, the Glen Campbell seems to love mediums in DADGAD. Anyone else set up one guitar in this or different tunings? |
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| I've kept my 1537 in double dropped D for the last couple weeks while I'm working on Grayson Capp's "Wail & Ride". The 1537 sounds so good I'm gonna dig around for a few more songs in that tuning. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I keep my Lowden S23C tuned to alternate tunings. |
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Location: NJ | i can't play in standard tuning so why screw up in another? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Consider the potential, Al. If you screw up in standard tuning, maybe in an alt tuning it could be closer...?
Ok, maybe not... |
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Location: CA | The benefits of cultivating alternate tunings (from Wiki):
In 1967, Jerry Reed notched his first official country chart hit with "Guitar Man," which Elvis Presley soon covered. Presley had come to Nashville to record in 1967, and one of the songs he was working on was "Guitar Man," which Reed had written and recorded. "I was out on the Cumberland River fishing, and I got a call from Felton Jarvis (then Presley's producer). He said, 'Elvis is down here. We've been trying to cut 'Guitar Man' all day long. He wants it to sound like it sounded on your album.' I finally told him, 'Well, if you want it to sound like that, you're going have to get me in there to play guitar, because these guys (you're using in the studio) are straight pickers. I pick with my fingers and tune that guitar up all weird kind of ways.'"
Jarvis hired Reed to play on the session. "I hit that intro, and [Elvis's] face lit up and here we went. Then after he got through that, he cut [my] "U.S. Male" at the same session. I was toppin' cotton, son." Reed also played the guitar for Elvis Presley's "Too Much Monkey Business" (1968), recorded in the same session. After Presley recorded another of Reed's songs, "U.S. Male," the songwriter recorded an Elvis tribute, "Tupelo Mississippi Flash," which proved to be his first Top 20 hit. Reed's guitar style can also be heard on other Elvis tunes including "Big Boss Man". |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I keep a National in open D. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | DADGAD is a favorite. As are :
DADGBE
DADDGD
DADF#GE
EAEG#BE
CGCGCE
...to tune a few. More tunings == more guitars, it's a drug, be warned.
With the lower tunings make sure you have a larger bowl and thicker strings. |
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| I had my 1621-4 in DADGAD for awhile and the Norman in standard. These days the Ovation is back to being the main guitar tuned standard but a half tone down and the other one is standard - I guess I need another guitar now..lol |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by alpep:
i can't play in standard tuning so why screw up in another? I got my Pseudo-Strat tuned to Psuedo-Open G...
G-G-D-G-B-D
You can play any simple rock (think Rolling Stones or 'Wild Thang') song with one finger.
[throw in another finger or two for fancy 7th's stuff :cool: ] |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I've had Gertrude (1111-4) in both DADGAD and what I call "C-Gad"--DADGAD down a whole step. She's pretty rattlesome in the second one, but just incredible in DADGAD. Do I play well in it? Not particularly, but it sounds so neat.......and even really simply things sound so different they seem more complex.
--Karen |
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Location: SoCal | Some guitars just respond well to tuning down. My GC reissue is tuned to an open G and whenever I tune the E string down to G, that guitar just rumbles in the best possible way..... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Lowden's seem especially keen on DADGAD or Dropped D- DoubleDropD too... |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Yes - I normally use Lights on the Applause but found it useful to change the 2nd string to a medium as the light sounds wrong when tuned down from the normal B to A. Had great fun with this book and CD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-DADGAD-Guitar-Book/dp/1900428970.
DADGAD suits Irish trad guitar very well. |
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