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Topic: Unusual 8 string tuning - anyone tried this? |
Greg Gefell
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Upstate NY
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Posted 29 Aug 2008 7:36 am |
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I have a spare guitar I like to try out altered tunings on to spark new musical ideas/break old patterns.
The A and C# strings are re-entrant. (Lower than the B and E strings.)
Its basically all the notes you'd get with the ABC pedals up and down on a pedal steel in close 3 string grips.
hi to low
I seem to recall an old post from someone who was using a similar pedals up and down type tuning, but I think it laid out differently. Its on a 10 string guitar so I could even keep going with it. A high A seems to make sense but I'd have to transpose the whole tuning down then.
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Stephan Miller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2008 3:15 pm
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Aren't strings 4-3-2-1 the same intervals as ukulele tuning (the "my dog has fleas" riff)? And strings 3-2-1 are standard guitar tuning for those strings, raised up a full step.
Compound tuning...Open E/A6? |
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Wayne Cox
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Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Aug 2008 7:24 am
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I think the real advantages of the tuning are that you can still strum the lower strings as a complete chord,yet play closer intervals for scale execution.
Keep up the good work!
~~W.C.~~ |
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Greg Gefell
From:
Upstate NY
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Posted 2 Sep 2008 6:14 am
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It does have close tuning intervals, but it is more user friendly (if re-entrant doesn't confuse you)than a chromatic arrangement. The original idea was to have the most commonly used intervals available with easy grips.
Working your way up the string grips (starting with 6,5,4) gives you:
I, Isus4, IV, IIm.
2,4,6 gets VIm
Time will tell if its truly useful to me. Its fun for now to play with the similar PSG positions/sounds that are available.
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