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Location: Waurika OK | When I went to Matt Smiths clinic at a music store in OK City, he gave us a few sheets with alt. tunings, very neat stuff.
It works like Miles was saying, all strings open barre all strings at fifth fret and seventh fret.
Open D -D A D f# A D The sheet has many more chords on up the neck to the 12th fret.
He gave us the same for open C and G.
Neat progression from open all the way up the neck to 12th fret with bass strings dominating and then back down with treble strings dominating.
I think I know where it is and will scan and email if you like, or maybe I can post it here (if i can find out how to do that)
I will go to Matt's page, maybe he has it already in a form that he can post.
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Location: Houston, Texas | OK, well I just don't like George Thoroughgood and I think "Bad to the Bone" is about the worst slide guitar I've ever heard.
The best current slide guitarist I've heard is Derek Trucks. I saw an interview with him where he said that he plays almost exclusively in open E even when not playing slide and can't remember much anymore in standard tuning.
The only alternate tuning I've played around with other than drop D is open E. "Little Martha" from the album "Eat a Peach" is in open E and is pretty easy to figure out and alot of fun to play. |
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Location: Waurika OK | V-elite you have email.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | While I admit alternate tunings are interesting for many purely musical reasons, my comment about the open chord useage was more about the performance possibilities. In the case I mentioned, and it seems in a few others, it allowed the artist to be the only one on stage, and at the same time, not let the guitar distract at all from the performance and not let anyone think "oh wow he's a guitar player too." Basically he used this "trick" to make his voice the center of attention, forcing the audience to not really notice the guitar until the song was over. It's not something you can do more than once a night. It's just an aspect or angle I hadn't thought of, and found it clever.
As far as alternate tunings... I'll leave that to the other guitar players. This horse too old for new tricks. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | C'mon, Miles. If I'm willing to try it, you're not too old. Your first Northwest winter is coming up and you'll have lots of time to learn new tricks. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "Your first Northwest winter is coming up and you'll have lots of time to learn new tricks."
LOL Remember I'm NORTH of Seattle.. Winter here only means.... I don't know that it means... I might actually see rain for a change? The Dive sites have less people? The Mountain passes are closed, I know that much. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | The pronouncement of the Seasons around here is a daily event.
The Summer we are still having has been phenomenal! Very rare.
Gray and dark gray are doubtless on their way in. Speculation as to wether we will have snow on the ground in the lowlands around Christmas. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Summer weather just ended here. We're hoping it puts out all the forest fires. Miles, don't let out the secret about how good the weather is in the Northwest or all those Easterners will be moving out here. Oops, too late. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I figured everyone knew I was joking anyway.. (wink wink). Looking forward the several feet of snow, constant grey days and 50 inches of rain :)
hows that? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Aren't there parts of Washington that rain all winter? |
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Location: North Idaho | I don't know about the rain, but by the smoke we've been breathing lately, parts of Washington have been on fire all fall. Rain would be very welcome this weekend. It's been so dry I'm going to have to get a humidifier if we don't get rain soon. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Yeah, we got a reality check just before labor day. Checking the news on the fires before we went camping.. "we expect to have them contained by early October"... huh???? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nice rain and snow in the mountains early Saturday morning quelled the smoke pretty well. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Open G - Used to be able to play the instrumental version of Both Sides Now as found on Will The Circle Be Unbroken-Nitty Gritty etc. But I forgot it!
Assignment for October, relearn.
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And if you Yanks would keep your fires and the smoke therefrom below the border, we'd really appreciate it! |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...I use it rather often, in ONE NOTE SAMBA, MISTY, and MICHELLE, etc.
...not specifically "E", but yes, (X)m7(add11). |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Seems as if there are some musicians here :) knowledgable ones even,playing out,doing the expected and beyond,and an inspiration to novices ,pushing boundaries,using "means but no means"to enhance their skills..(now where did I hear that before ? ) :confused: ..perhaps eying them seasoned pro`s might "pay off " after all ;) |
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| I play in open Em almost all of the time(EBEGBE). For one thing, there're the bar chords accross. Also, if you're playing in that key(Em), you can just change the low two e's, or the two b's, or an e and the g, to get some great chords. I started playing in Em to cover Joey Eppard songs, but it grew on me. |
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Em7add11.....How often do you use it ?
