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Topic: if you just had one tunning |
Bill Brown
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Canadian, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2004 5:09 pm |
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| hello i know i am going to get a million answers but if you had only one neck what tunning would be best to play about every thing you would run in to i dont mean what you like but what would do the job of playing what you would need for all around playing tell me |
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Bill Bosler
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Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2004 5:43 pm
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| 8 string A6th with a B on the 1st string. Bottom to top F# A C# E F# A C# B. The B gives me a 2 to help fill out the scale. If I play strings 1-4-5, or 1-2-4, I get a sus chord which sounds really cool. |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2004 6:12 pm
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| Without a doubt the 8 string Joaquin Murphey C6/A9 tuning. Hi to Low: B,G,E,C,A,G,E,C# The B string is out of place like the chromatic strings on a pedal E9.Pitchwise,it belongs between the C and A strings.Murph put it at the bottom as the 8th string and that has advantages but I like it better as string #1. You can play more music with this tuning than any other single fixed tuning. After Murph died it was my intent to champion his tuning to others but I realized I could only do that properly if I could play it myself. It took me about a year of woodshedding before I started to develop any musical instincts on it but there's a tremendous amount of stuff hiding in there. I urge people to check it out at length. I have it on my Stringmasters and I tune it down a half a step to B6/Ab9 so it will line up positionwise with my E9/B6 pedal guitar and that adds a little balls to it as well - in fact taking it down to A6/F#9 would add even more. -MJ- |
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John Bechtel
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Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Nov 2004 7:29 pm
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If I had only one 8or 7-str. neck to play on it would have to be the C-Dia. tuning!
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“Big John” Bechtel
’49/’50 Fender T–8 Custom [X2]
’65 Re-issue Fender Twin-Reverb Custom™ 15”
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Rick Alexander
From:
Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Nov 2004 1:21 am
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C6/A7 with A and E on the bottom - You can get a lot of stuff with this tuning including Augmented 9th chords - low to high is E A C# E G A C E
- and I know you said just one tuning, but by simply lowering the C# to C and raising the low E to F you get that cool C6/FM7 tuning with the big major 7th - low to high is F A C E G A C E
or by raising the low E to F#, lowering the G to F# and raising the C to C# you get that A6 tuning that works so well on so many songs - F# A C# E F# A C# E.
But I sure would miss my other 2 necks - one with E7th tuning E G# B D E G# B E, and one with C6 tuning A C E G A C E G 
If I HAD to play only one set tuning, it would be the first one.
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Rick Alexander
57 Fender Stringmaster T8, 57 Fender Champ, Remington Steelmaster D8, 47 National New Yorker - Music Man and Peavey Amps . .
[This message was edited by Rick Alexander on 24 November 2004 at 01:23 AM.] |
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 24 Nov 2004 4:15 am
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Well, if it's just one tuning, and I wasn't allowed to change it, I'd probably opt for a straight A6 with a high E 5th on top (E-C#-A-F#-E-C#-A-F#). This gives me an extra minor third of range over C6, and I can get pretty much all the chords, or at least chord fragments, that I need with slants and relative positioning.
But, if it's one neck, with one tuning I can manipulate, hmmmmmmm... I'd probably still opt for the A6.
Since I play primarily Hawaiian on it, I can retune for C6 or B11 quite easily when needed, and cover all the tunes we do. If I want a more bluesy sound, I'll just tune the F# up to G for the seventh, and it works quite nicely, since a majority of that stuff tends to fall into A, E or G. For me, and what I do, A6 is ptetty much my "one-neck-fits-all" tuning.
Of course, ask this question in a year, and I'm sure to have another entirely different answer!
Happy Thanksgiving!
TJW
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Todd James Weger/RD/RTD
1956 Fender Stringmaster T-8 (C6, E13, B11); 1960 Fender Stringmaster D-8 (C6, E13); Melobar SLS lapsteel (open D); Chandler RH-4 Koa semi-hollow lapsteel (open G); Regal resonator (open D or G)
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