Alternate tunings
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Re: Alternate tunings
Big fan of:
D A D F# A D
and its min7 cousin:
D A D F A C
If for no other reason than open harmonics positively sing on an open-tuned acoustic, and the scattered intervals between strings yield almost an entire scale.
example:
www.landingonland.com/witnessTheFitness/carlos.mp3
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D A D F# A D
and its min7 cousin:
D A D F A C
If for no other reason than open harmonics positively sing on an open-tuned acoustic, and the scattered intervals between strings yield almost an entire scale.
example:
www.landingonland.com/witnessTheFitness/carlos.mp3
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Re: Alternate tunings
and its min7 cousin:
D A D F A C
I just tried this out and like it very much! Thanks a lot.
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Re: Alternate tunings
C G D A E G. Fripp style. Fifths up until the 6th string. Allows for more violin-like/classical lines. I can't play alternate tunings for which there is no consistant interval between strings. Too much thinking for playing really fast.
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Re: Alternate tunings
I like to tune the low E down to a really low C. Or just tune everything down a whole step.
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Re: Alternate tunings
Oh shit, one more:
C G D G B D
Kinda an open G/C. Helps to have bigass strings.
Anybody do any slide work on these?
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C G D G B D
Kinda an open G/C. Helps to have bigass strings.
Anybody do any slide work on these?
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Re: Alternate tunings
i stumbled on to this last night
B B D# F# A# C#
awesome......
B B D# F# A# C#
awesome......
Re: Alternate tunings
i meant to say i tune B's in octaves, E string being low B, A string an octave up.
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Re: Alternate tunings
Great, where do I get a moveable fret guitar? Or are you just being a smartass?ubertar wrote:You need a good chromatic tuner that gives you readings in cents. And new frets.salad49 wrote:How do you dial in your tuning on a guitar? I have one of those sabine autotuners, you know, the one with the LEDs...do I need a different tuner?ubertar wrote:Right now I'm using E+20, A, D-20, G-40, B+40, E+20. The scale is 5 tone equal temperament. I like that scale because it sounds good melodically and harmonically. There are some really cool chords in 5 tet.
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Re: Alternate tunings
Not at all. You can make one. Either from scratch, like my students:salad49 wrote:Great, where do I get a moveable fret guitar? Or are you just being a smartass?
www.geocities.com/ubertar/kids
Or remove the frets from an existing guitar, fill in the cracks to make it fretless, then add the movable ones.
The moveable frets are like the frets on middle eastern instruments, like the turkish saz and the persian tar.
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Re: Alternate tunings
That's really cool...could you talk a little more about attaching the frets? Are you using strips of metal and tying them into place, like a sitar?
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Re: Alternate tunings
It was not my intention to hijack this thread! I swear!salad49 wrote:That's really cool...could you talk a little more about attaching the frets? Are you using strips of metal and tying them into place, like a sitar?
My apologies to the original poster.
No, they're more like the frets on the saz and tar (above). Traditionally, the frets are made of gut. I've used fishing wire before, with good results, but for some reason (different gauge? different type of fishing wire?) it hasn't worked out with the recent ones, so I've been using this heavy duty, heavily waxed thread which so far seems like it will work well. You need to make a groove on the top of the neck (what faces up when you're holding the guitar) that runs the length of the neck. That's for tying the knots. You wrap the string around the neck three or four times and pull it as tight as you can before tying the knot, then seal the knot with a drop of glue.
For my own guitars, I have permanent metal frets, but made a bunch of guitars set to different temperaments.
Re: Alternate tunings
I don't believe I saw the Jimmy Page favorites mentioned, like
DADGAD (Kashmir)
or
DGCGCD (Rain Song)
These always seem to yield a song when I'm goofing around...
Best,
H
DADGAD (Kashmir)
or
DGCGCD (Rain Song)
These always seem to yield a song when I'm goofing around...
Best,
H
Re: Alternate tunings
David Crosby used EADGAD a lot. That's the one for Guinnevere and Deja Vu.
Sometimes I'll tune my guitar weird and play regular standard tuning chords, just to see what happens. You'll get really crazy stuff that way - like in EADGAD, if you play a standard G chord (muting the low A string) you get this kind-of crazy G7 chord.
Fun to shake it up.
Sometimes I'll tune my guitar weird and play regular standard tuning chords, just to see what happens. You'll get really crazy stuff that way - like in EADGAD, if you play a standard G chord (muting the low A string) you get this kind-of crazy G7 chord.
Fun to shake it up.
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Re: Alternate tunings
some of my favorites
DADGAD (the other standard?)
DADF#AD - open D
EADGCD - great for playing in C, try the Am and F with, awesome. great for playing 'Don't Fear the Reaper'
CGDGAD
CGCGAD
CGCGCD
CGCGBE
DGDGAD
DADGAD (the other standard?)
DADF#AD - open D
EADGCD - great for playing in C, try the Am and F with, awesome. great for playing 'Don't Fear the Reaper'
CGDGAD
CGCGAD
CGCGCD
CGCGBE
DGDGAD
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Re: Alternate tunings
Oh cool, a Tar. One I don't have. I have a Saz,,two in fact,(baglama and cura) and it uses a re-entrant tuning, like a ukelele, viz., D, down to G, up to C(middle C), where the middle string is the low one. I tune my oud G, D, G, C, and the sarode, C, G, C, F, a fourth higher, same ratio, low to high. There's a couple of lower strings on the oud. No frets. It's too easy to use the sarode tuning on the oud, rather than the common(one of many) oud tunings. The Saz uses fishing line, very thin, wrapped about four times, with a special tie. for frets.
Good info here:
http://www.silverbushmusic.com/sarodtuning.html
Check around the site, that goes right to the sarode tuning page. There's good diagrams where it's easy to see how to do the fret tie for the saz in another part of the site.
I like drop D and DADGAD, as well as DADGAE, low to high, which if you fiddle or mando, you have the A, D, A, E which is a raised low string tuning on the fiddle(mando, irish banjo, etc.), good for D type picking, as long as you deal with the presence of the G string in the middle, skipping it, and using it, to taste.
Good info here:
http://www.silverbushmusic.com/sarodtuning.html
Check around the site, that goes right to the sarode tuning page. There's good diagrams where it's easy to see how to do the fret tie for the saz in another part of the site.
I like drop D and DADGAD, as well as DADGAE, low to high, which if you fiddle or mando, you have the A, D, A, E which is a raised low string tuning on the fiddle(mando, irish banjo, etc.), good for D type picking, as long as you deal with the presence of the G string in the middle, skipping it, and using it, to taste.
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