Since I discovered the world of homemade guitars, I've been struggling a bit with what is the best tuning for a cigar box guitar. I've tried various open tunings, but they seem very limiting, for myself of course. I've finally gravitated to 4-strings or six strings, and use the standard guitar tuning for the top four strings. E-B-G-D for 4-strings. 3-string guitars I tune to E-B-G. Six-string guitars I keep with the standard E-B-G-D-A-E.
But I'd be interested in hearing from those who use open tunings, and why you do.
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But Dane wah it is too easy for my phone App.(me in my whiny voice) Lol!
You are right on the money in Learning the circle of 5 ths chart my friend.
It comes down to me being thickheaded are too much of a slacker or combo of both!
:) :) :)
J
3 string mainstays: GDg and DGB. Secondaries: CGC, DAD, EBE, sharp or flat variations of those and ADF#
4 strings: GDgB, DGBE, DGBD
2 strings: GD and Gg.
Ron, you are not limited. You are special.
I only use AEA tuning and dont bother about limitations. When I first learned about drop D tuning [6 string guitar] it really threw me off and took a few months to figure it out. The only limitations are those we put on ourselves.
Thanks for the thoughts, guys.
So you understand me, I once had a friend who was a traditional fiddle player (but played an electric fiddle). We were talking about sight reading while learning a new tune, and he gave me this look....he never learned to read music.
I was talking to the composer of a rock opera in Cambridge some years back in a bar and club called the Middle East. I asked him to see his score, and he gave me this blank look. There is no score, he said.
I come from a formal musical training background (as a double reed player, primarily), so I still need to wrap my head around other ways of looking at and performing music. I ran into that when I went to Berklee College, as well; the figured bass was not their thing lol. Part of it was of course making a student take counterpoint and harmony all over again, the Berklee way :)
I do think that approaching this folk instrument in the same way as a standard 6-string as a point of departure makes the most sense to me, though it is only for me. Each person chooses his own path.
Naw, you were not being a ball buster. No worries.
Took a correspondence course in theory from Berklee in 1965. Never been the same since... (They probably haven't been either.)
Definition of a half step: 2 oboes playing the same note.
Definition of a whole step: 2 English horns playing the same note.
Ha. I can tell music jokes all day, and string players are usually the butt of most of them. How many guitarists does it take to change a light bulb? 3. One to change it, and two to say "I can do that."
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