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Drop D - The Gateway Drug of Alternate Tunings
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Indeed. (More comments over on TheGearPage...)
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Hi Hoodster…
A very easy-to-follow-and-absorb way to begin learning D-A-D-G-A-D or Open D (D-A-D-F#-A-D) is to learn Dropped D, then spend a week or two in Double Dropped D (D-A-D-G-B-D) From there you are only one string from DADGAD or one more string retuned D-A-D-F#-A-D (Open D which is a chord when you strum through the entire string bed). When I taught, the first alternate tuning they learned was Dropped D, then Double Dropped D, then Open D, and land squarely in DADGAD. Not only is it fun, it begins to open players up to potential slide playing (Open D), Irish/Celtic (DADGAD), Blues (Dropped D and Double Dropped D) and other styles of music which share closely related tunings, but encompass a wide variety of styles. Then…once you get to Open D then you might as well learn Open G (D-G-D-G-B-D). And by that time arrives, you are away from shore, and not anchored to standard tuning all the time! It's a Gateway tuning, not a drug!
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For me, it was tuning down a half step. Wasnt scared, because I didnt have to change any chord shapes, and help was just a capo away…. But then came dropped D, double dropped D, and so on
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And to riff off of Larry's astute and learned post, keep in mind that if you look at the 2nd, 3rd and first strings in standard, they are the same as they will be in Open G. For example, the three make up an A triad at the second fret. (an inversion) Tune the 1st and 6th down to D and the 5th to B, and that second fret will still be an "A" across all the strings in Open G.
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I use a LOT of Drop D, some Double Drop, but that’s as far as I go. I don’t want to bore the audience with extensive retuning and am way too lazy to carry a second guitar. So that B string and the others stay safely where they belong.
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What standard tuning? I Like to experiment with each stringcurrent EGDFAC what is th
Standard tuning is a guideline, I like trying different combinations on each string, last tried EGDFAC and its fun must be e/suss something that could be a mode? I don't know.
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