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Location: New Orleans | I am an AVID user of alternate tunings. This can expand your creativity into the stratosphere! Problem is, I can't find chord generators or charts for the many alternate tunings out there.
I spend a whole lot of time experimenting and figuring out chords but I'd rather spend some of that time learning chords that already exist. It would certainly help to speed up the songwriting process that I live and breathe.
I constantly hear new songs in my head and find myself scrambling to get them out on the guitar. Most of the time it's music that's in alternate tuning and I don't know what's up with that. This is how I found out that there are loads of different tunings to use but no chords to help use them.
I'd much appreciate it if anyone could provide links to chord charts for any alternate tunings. |
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Location: closely held secret | Here ya go, LeStrange.
And here\'s a bunch of other resources on the same site. |
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Location: closely held secret | This one\'s pretty cool, too. Shows you the chording and the scales, and you can use the display to design your own tunings, while seeing how the chords are formed. |
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| Hey dobro - go look at Lucy tuning. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Thanks Waskel, those are great! Nice to be able to get chord positions all over the neck in any tuning. |
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Location: Chicago | Holy shnike! Lucy Tuning is definitely for alien abductees. (figures that my tuning is credited here to "Stanley Jordan." I first heard about if from him in high school: EADGCF = all fourth intervals).
With EADGCF not only are all octaves symmetrical but you get really cool and fresh open chord options (as in any alt tuning).
So Schroeder: did you tinker with the chart yet? In Schroeder tuning? |
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Location: New Orleans | Great sites here! Thank you! |
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Location: chicago | looknohands.com |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I think I should learn how to play in standard tuning first. LOL. I just started doing a few tunes in dropped D. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | This guy (Alan Horvath) has a great site with lots of open tunings and links. Go to http://alanhorvath.com/LSN3.php to check out his site; he also has links to Mark Hanson's "Accent on Music," which has a lot of open tuning publications and resources. Also, if you want "open tuning without tears," check out the Third Hand Capo company started by super guitarist Harvey Reid; go to www.thirdhandcapo.com to check them out. These capos are like your regular elastic capos with rubber bars, except the bar is cut into 6 individual rotating eccentric rubber cams with flat spots. You can clamp some strings and leave others open to give you the sound of open tunings without torturing your guitar neck with all that re-tuning. Plus you can play normal bar chords and open position scales above the capo. If you'd like to read more about it, check out an article I wrote for Guitarnoise.com at http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=450 to get more info. Hope this helps. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Remember, alternative tuning is among the best, most rational justifications for multiple guitars. :-)
Jeff |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "Alternate Tuning" is also my answer when the lead player tries to tell me I'm 'out of tune'.
(Of course covering the tuning peg with my hand and pretending to twist while plinking often accomplishes the same thing. ;) ) |
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Location: New Orleans | Thanks rick...I feel rich now ;) |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | No prob, Le Strange. Glad I could help.
I hope Heart comes to Cincinnati this Summer. The Wilson sisters are STILL two of the hottest women in rock, especially Nancy, and it'll give me a chance to rekindle the mad crush I had on them way back in my hot-blooded youth. Many's the night I spent holding up the cover of the "Bebe LeStrange" album--with one hand.......
Seriously, unlike today's no-talent, self-proclaimed "divas"-- the Britneys and the Jessicas and the Shakiras-- Ann and Nancy can SING-- and they ROCK! Todays pop tartlets are helpless without their pitch correctors and 27 layers of vocal processing. They look like a million bucks, but that's about it. I'd like to see any one of them go out on stage with just an acoustic guitar and a mic, sit down on a stool, and just pick and sing. Can't be done. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Omaha:
Remember, alternative tuning is among the best, most rational justifications for multiple guitars. :-)
Jeff I haven't tried this excuse yet and I don't know if my wife would know what it means or care. This friend who bought an Ultra GS recently on my recommendation has his wife convinced that he needs several guitars for his alternate tunings. He hasn't totally convinced her, however, because she was really pissed at both of us when he bought another guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | And rick, if you were really hot blooded you could have held it up with no hands. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Hmmmmmmmmm....... |
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Location: Kirkland, WA | Aloha....slack key players have been using alt tuning for about 150 years. My favorite is Taro Patch tuning lowest to highest is DGDGBD. You can find several song books with all sorts of tunings. Amoung the better ones are by Mark Hanson, Keola Beamer and Daniel Ho (not related to Don. The built-in tuner on the Ovation is very helpful. Slackers use the joke that we tune for about 15 minutes to play a 2 minute song. Not exactly true but close. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Alternative tunings..Many guitars..feels like home to me :) |
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