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Old 02-20-2019, 01:26 PM
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Default Alternative Tunings: Demystified

Hi AGF! I wrote a blog on alternative tunings recently that I want to share with y’all. It includes a video, chord charts, and even a bit of history: https://midwoodguitarstudio.com/blog...s-demystified/
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always good to know there is another side or three to standard. thanks,

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My pleasure! Thanks for reading
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Great article. Thank you.
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Really great Robinson! Thanks for sharing...hope all is well at SoundPure. Thanks
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Wow, very interesting read from a huge fan of Keith Richards use of alternative tunings
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for a very different and understandable discussion on the tunings! Thoroughly enjoyed it!
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Very nice. Thanks for sharing this.
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Sometime around 1970, I was trying to play Tom Rush's Rockport Sunday. I was failing miserably. I got the idea that if I retuned my guitar, I might have a fighting chance of covering the melody part over the chord part. I experimented by tuning and playing and tuning and playing until I ended up in open-C (CGCGCe). I was totally winging it, by ear, but it really helped.

I noodled with that tuning for decades before I found out that Tom Rush actually played that song in that tuning. The same thing went for John Fahey and others' tunes. I was shocked.

I played regularly in open-C for many years before I even knew open tunings were a thing. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut sometimes. I really thought I was alone out there, just cheating my way through guitar playing, and I was. Finally, the internet really showed me how common and varied open tunings have been, and are now. I was never alone. I was just ignorant. Everybody was doing it. I didn't know.

I played a lot of clawhammer banjo in my twenties. Less now. That uses a lot of different tunings, and it really accelerated my open tuning usage on guitar. (A little off topic, but playing clawhammer banjo really influenced how I play guitar today, and not just in tunings. I got really comfortable with simultaneous playing of syncopated rhythms and melodies. A friend said to me a couple years ago, while I was playing ukulele, "Everything you play sounds like a banjo." Made me laugh.)

I use a variety of tunings, but open-C is the place where I am most comfortable. I like the 1 on the 6th string, and the 3 on the 1st string. Most of the other tunings I use are less intuitive to me.


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Really great Robinson! Thanks for sharing...hope all is well at SoundPure. Thanks


Thanks very much! I’m actually working for Midwood Guitar Studio out of Charlotte these days [emoji6]
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Wow, very interesting read from a huge fan of Keith Richards use of alternative tunings

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Right on! Thanks for reading.
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Thanks for a very different and understandable discussion on the tunings! Thoroughly enjoyed it!


Thank you for your kind words!!!
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