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It's funny, I started learning alternate tunings because I got swept up fairly early into the percussive acoustic craze.
Then one day when I listened to a recording of a song I'd written (which I'd spent precious money for studio time for) I realised that my recording, performance unseen, sounded like someone playing a very limited hand percussion along with someone else playing a simple bassline and an even simpler arpeggiated pattern. Some of the notes being done with slap harmonics seemed to change the fluidity compared to if I just played the piece straight with no 'drumming' which made hitting the same notes legato possible. It wasn't that I wasn't adept, either. The same song used to (and still occasionally does) get me huge applause done live where people could see what was going on. But some month later I reworked the song to flesh out the guitar part, found that it worked better in standard tuning, and played actual bass and had a talented friend add hand percussion with his choice of instruments.
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I can't see how song accompaniment in standard tuning can match the fluidity and creativity demonstrated by this bloke, but then I don't understand how he's doing this in dadgad either but I think it's brilliant.
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So I went back to standard mostly. It was just too much of a pain carrying 2 guitars to a short gig. . . . , but then another friend put me on to partial capos. You can turn standard into DADGAD in E with a partial capo. It's not exactly the same. I can't play my old DADGAD songs that way. But it opens up great open-string possibilities in otherwise regular songs. And you don't have to retune a guitar. You just slap the thing on and you're off to the races. I do some songs now with 2 capos. A full capo on 3 and the partial on 5. - Cool sound.
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Mediums with a 53 or 54 6th string or a mixed set like Elixir HD which are 13 17 25 32 42 53 are my favorites for the lower tunings.
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I typically use “dadgad” sets, with the heavier top and bottom, tho ive lately been pushing the 1st string up to a 14 and the 2nd to an 18. Not quite as heavy as Martin, but getting there. I have no trouble tuning to standard, or even things like Orkney, withe 2nd string up to C. At least my guitars, and fingers handle it fine.
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