Alternate tunings
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Re: Alternate tunings
I found alternate tunings pretty mind boggling at the start, but once you get used to them they're pretty fantastic.
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Re: Alternate tunings
Has anyone tried FAGDAD?
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Re: Alternate tunings
I play acoustic in open D, Drop D, Open E, E A B E B E (which is a cracker) and occasional other ones. I don’t do fancy stuff, I just use them to find chord voicings that sound sweet
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You tune the G down to an E? Doesn't it just go "flap... flap... flap..." very slowly and rattleishly?bbrunskill wrote:... E A B E B E
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Re: Alternate tunings
The tuning for Goo Goo Dolls' Name is quite cool: D A E A A Ebbrunskill wrote:I play acoustic in open D, Drop D, Open E, E A B E B E (which is a cracker) and occasional other ones. I don’t do fancy stuff, I just use them to find chord voicings that sound sweet
Can only really use it for that one song tho.
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Haven't been brave enough to try CGDAEg just yet. Had some bizarre tuning a couple months ago that sounded like open C, buggered if I can remember it though.
DGDG was a goodie for bass. Went back to good ol' half step though, where all my guitars are.
DGDG was a goodie for bass. Went back to good ol' half step though, where all my guitars are.
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Re: Alternate tunings
somewhere in here or somewhere in the tardis of lost posts.... I'm mainly doing open E or open D at the moment, acoustically.
I only do fagdad with my boner.
I only do fagdad with my boner.
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Re: Alternate tunings
As long as it's with yours and not somebody else's.BG wrote:somewhere in here or somewhere in the tardis of lost posts.... I'm mainly doing open E or open D at the moment, acoustically.
I only do fagdad with my boner.
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Vince wrote:You tune the G down to an E? Doesn't it just go "flap... flap... flap..." very slowly and rattleishly?bbrunskill wrote:... E A B E B E
nope, it’s ok. ideally you’d use a higher gauge for that string. The flappiest tuning I’ve tried is Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls : B D D D D D
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Ooohh... is it like that Nashville thing where you swap out the G string for a high E tuned to G? I've always meant to try that.bbrunskill wrote:nope, it’s ok. ideally you’d use a higher gauge for that string.
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