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Location: Location Location Location | A great tuning to hang out in when you're having wrist problems. Be careful though, it may suck you in. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Nice tuning indeed ..
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Location: big island | i've been diggin' on open C tuning lately. it is mahvelous! CGEGCE |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | I seem to hang out in DADGAD and DADF#AD mostly these days mostly bsecause I'm just learning the last sections of "The Rose And The Pearl" (Doug Smith) and "The Irish Girl" (Adrian Legg).
Alternative tunings seem far easier to compose stuff in for me also |
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Location: Location Location Location | I'll have to play with that one Lanaki. The open tunings are pretty cool. I've got my DADGAD guitar strung with Pearse New Mediums, which seems to compensate well for the lighter tension.
Adrian Legg is amazing. Are these tunes available online? |
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| I keep one guitar permanently tuned to open D (DADF#AD) - fun to just play around with, especially with double stops, and quite a few songs are easier to play and sound better in that tuning. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Same as g8r. I keep my Lowden S23C tuned to open D. Lowdens sound amazing in open tunings. |
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| No need to be a suck-up, T. I sorta like you already. |
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Location: closely held secret | I usually have something tuned in either DADGAD, open D or open G. As Serge said, it's fun to play around with, and often inspiration strikes when in those tunings. |
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Location: ms | I used to use a bounch of weird tunings but found its just too much trouble live so now i use standard, DADGAD and DADf#AD. It keeps life simple but i do love open C. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Originally posted by gulfcoast:
I used to use a bounch of weird tunings but found its just too much trouble live so now i use standard, DADGAD and DADf#AD. It keeps life simple but i do love open C. But dropped D (DADGBE), double dropped D (DADGBD) are on the way from standard to DADGAD and so from a performance point of view you can go...
EADGBE
DADGBE
DADGBD
DADGAD
DADF#AD
And I recently realised (yes I'm slow!) that those open E (EBEG#BE) tunes can be played in open D! |
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Location: Location Location Location | Here's a pretty cool site (free with some limitations) that allows you to find chords in any tuning up the neck:
http://www.gootar.com/folder/guitar.html
Here's another variation of the same program with a slightly different approach, which can be modified to any tuning also:
http://www.gootar.com/guitar/ |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by dweezil:
And I recently realised (yes I'm slow!) that those open E (EBEG#BE) tunes can be played in open D! Not only that, aything you can do in open D or E will work in open G or A also.
Open D/E is terms of intervals is: 1 5 1 3 5 1
Open G/A is: 5 1 5 1 3 5
So strings 6 to 2 in E/D have the same intervals as strings 5 to 1 in G/A. So you just move all the chord shapes and scales one string towards the floor. A whole new tuning without having to learn anything new.
If you already play in DADGAD (1 5 1 4 5 1) the same principle applies for Gsus4 tuning - DGDGCD (5 1 5 1 4 5)
Go to a Matt Smith clinic and he unlocks a ton of this stuff. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Thanks Paul. That was very helpful. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Very cool site, thanks, Gary.
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Location: Location Location Location | You're welcome Anita. I've used this for a few years, and it's become a regular go-to site for me. I keep saying I'm gonna buy it, but the free stuff serves me well. |
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Location: Location Location Location | For any DADGAD fans, here's a cool Pierre Bensusan instructional thing I found on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PpMg2IypX8 |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | don't forget to check out Adrian's 'A Waltz For Leah' :) |
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Location: Location Location Location | Thanks dweezil..I'll look at it now.
EDIT 5 MINUTES LATER:
I'm listening to it now. Quite beautiful. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | capo 5th fret, a but of legato. Sound simple but as usual Adrian does his thing and keeps the lead line strong. Timing is especially important on this one!
There is one stenuous stretch in the C section but for intermediate players is a simple 'step up' with careful stretch practise.
Again a seemingly simple piece but only works if you get under the skin/into the brain of the man. It's not JUST about the notes. |
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Location: nashville | Talk about Open Tunings. Saw David Wilcox last week. Talk about twisting on a guitar |
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