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Location: WV | This might make a good poll and also give some information regarding alternate tunings to those not familiar with this type of playing. Since there are many different variations the poll is a simple Yes/No/Don't know what this is. You can elaborate in your replies. Personally I frequently use a "Drop D" tuning.
Let the games begin......
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Location: south east Michigan | I have tuned down a step to make a couple songs singable. I just capo up if I need to. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I usually have one of my guitars hanging on the wall in Open D or G tunning. I also use the open D with the G string tuned down to F#, for those Neil Young songs. Alternate tunnings bring new ideas to my playing when I get stale. I'm curious as to what songs OFC members use foralternate tunnings. Has anyone been frustrated trying to learn a song, only to find out later it was an alternate tunning? I know I have.
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Location: Snellville, GA | Sometimes an open E. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I alternate between in-tune and out-of-tune. Dave |
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Location: NJ | My two gig guitars stay standard.
The SlotHead usually stays at Double-Drop D.
(It seems to like that tuning).
The Ultra-12 is in Open G.
Bill's Q10 has been hanging out in Open C.
(OOfaaahh! . . does that thing "honk"!).
And I practice my slide (ie: annoy Jeanette and the neighbors) on the Dobro in Open G. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I use a drop D for "If I Were a Carpenter", "Did You Ever Want to Know", "Love The One Your With". And lots of noodleing. It sound especially nice on a 12-string. It's also easy to cheat by putting a capo on the 2nd fret and leaving out the low E. |
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Location: Corvallis, OR | HI
I play about half the time standard tuning, and the rest in an unusual tuning, the so-called D modal.
Altho most people have never heard of it, I would greatly appreciate it if anyone knows of any recordings in this tuning. This tuning sounds best (sez me) when played finger style.
It is, D A D D A D
Notice that there are four D's in the tuning, (spanning two octaves)and that the middle strings are tuned to the same pitch. No other tuning sounds like it, and I hope to have some recordings on my web site soon.
Like all open tunings, some melodies are easier to play, and most are impossible or very difficult |
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Location: NJ | There's a book on Lternate Tunings by a guy named Hanson (I've forgotten his first name - "Steve"maybe). Anyway he lists DADDAD Tuning. He lists recordings that were made with each tuning.
I believe Stephen Stills and David Crosby have done tunes with this tuning . . . |
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Location: Scotland | Open E for slide, high-bass G for lap-style.
Also use:
DADGAD
DADEAE (Martin Carthy tuning)
DGDGBbD (G minor)
CGCGCE or variant CGCGCC
often use a Shubb partial capo for simulated open tunings or place a capo at the second fret but missing the 6th string which produces the Drop-D effect without retuning (actually plays in key of E)
4Fingers: DADGAD is D modal, not DADDAD. in a modal tuning the major or minor third (in this case F# or F) is replaced with the fourth |
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Location: England | well i'm not a massive fan of open tunings. although its a must for slide work. but once when i'd had a little too much to drink i tuned every string on one of my electric guitars to a D!!!
woke up next morning and went to play it, forgeting the, and wondered why everything sounded wrong (still drunk!)
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Location: 6 String Ranch | drop D
open D
open G
open Dm sometimes
Cliff, is that a C down from D or CGCGCE |
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Location: North Carolina | Mark Hanson
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Location: NJ | MARK Hanson!
Thank You, Franklin.
Bill;
CGCGCE
Probably the first alternate tuning I ever learned. Used it to learn Led Zeppelin's "Friends" years and YEARS ago. Oftimes I'll capo that tuning up 2 for Al Stewart's "Nostradamus" or Greg Lake's "Father Christmas". . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, it's an interesting tuning, learned it from David Hamburger this last year. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | This is from http://www.guitartips.addr.com/index.htm
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TUNING
Standard
E A D G B E
Drop D
D A D G B E
Drop D
D A D G B D
Open D
D A D F# A D
D Minor
D A D F A D
DADGAD
D A D G A D
Fourths
E A D G C F
D Modal
D A D D A D
G 6
D G D G B E
Open G
D G D G B D
G Minor
D G D G Bb D
C 6
C G C G A E
Open C
C G C G C E
Low C
C G D G A D
Open E
E B E G# B E |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I've some short scale guitars that I tune to A,D,G,C,E,A does that count?
Also use G,A,D,G,B,D sometimes. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I think that I should learn to play in standard tuning first. :D |
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Location: Indiana | I use a drop D (both E's doped to D) to play Black Mountain Side- Led Zep), Drop D (low E only) and capoed at 4th fret for Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again",and open E (E,B,E,G#,B,E) for "She Talks to Angels"- Black Crowes. Used to be in a band that did several "heavier" rock songs that used a drop D (low E only), I got to old for that.
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Location: Tempe, AZ | I occasionally use one similar to D Model
D A D A A D |
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Location: Snellville, GA | My dog has fleas... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Open tunings are a little limiting but very interesting. It's a very good reason to have lots of guitars, one in each tuning...... |
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Do You Use Alternate Tunings?