Open G tuning Vs open D tuning?

[syrynx]

Originally Posted by Barchi

I'm learning slide blues on my only acoustic. The lessons alternate between Open D & G, but soon I'd like to keep my guitar tuned to one of them for a long time. Would you choose Open G? Why? Or would Open D be your option?

For me, the music dictates the tuning I use. So asking me to choose a single tuning would be asking me which songs and instrumental tunes I'd be willing to give up playing. My answer would be, "None of them!"

I keep one guitar in D, D minor (D A D F A D), or Dm7 (D A D F A C). I keep a second in a reentrant F7 (F C Eb F A C, with the fifth string tuned below the sixth). These tunings cover most of the (all-original) material I'm playing these days, but not all. So I have a third guitar tuned to Bb F Bb F Bb D-- a tuning which I consider ugly, and strongly dislike using. But it enables me to play a couple of strong songs for which I've not yet found a better solution.

Retuning a single guitar to accommodate all of these tunings is not possible, because each tuning requires string gauges which can't be used for the others. At least open G and open D work nicely with the same string gauges.

If you find that retuning a single guitar is overly burdensome, I strongly urge you to get a second guitar.

[blue]

Originally Posted by syrynx

If you find that retuning a single guitar is overly burdensome, I strongly urge you to get a second guitar.

It is Burdensome. I have personally dealt with it by going through the same order of tunings every time. That way at least it becomes relatively automatic and little brain power is spent. And the less brainpower, the less you notice it.

But nobody ever accused me of being the sharpest tool in the shed. I have multiple resonators, but have never dedicated any of them to a single tuning.

[Random1643]

+1 I like em both. I've got an S&P parlor I keep in either open G or D. Best.

[Br1ck]

I play dobro in open G, but round neck guitars in open D. Slide only in either.

Double drop D is my favorite non slide alternate tuning.

[Gypsyblue]

Originally Posted by Br1ck

I play dobro in open G, but round neck guitars in open D. Slide only in either.

Double drop D is my favorite non slide alternate tuning.

Dobro open G tuning is a different tuning right?

It's not DGDGBE but something else if I remember right.

Or am I wrong?

What's Double Drop D?

DADGBD?

I don't know...I'm asking.

[Howard Emerson]

Originally Posted by Gypsyblue

Dobro open G tuning is a different tuning right?

It's not DGDGBE but something else if I remember right.

Or am I wrong?

What's Double Drop D?

DADGBD?

I don't know...I'm asking.

You are correct. Dobro G is GBDGBD.

Double Dropped D is strings 6 & 1 down a whole step.

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