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Old 03-13-2013, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by JonPR View Post
IOW, don't take songs written in EADGBE and force them into open D - not without re-arranging the chord types anyway. Use drop D for songs written in it in the first place, or which are in D already. Ie let the tuning guide your choices, don't force it to do what it wasn't designed for.
That's exactly the moral of the story. And since most songs I play were not written in open D I'll stick with standard tuning. Unless I win the lottery and buy a D-28 just for Open D Otherwise re-tuning the guitar each time is too much of a pain in the neck.
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