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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on September 30, 2010 at 1:12pm

Yes yes, love E, cause then I can play my A harp with it , which is my favorite key to play.

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Permalink Reply by Reverend Hellgood on September 30, 2010 at 8:02pm

I do most of my 6 string slide playing in open E. Currently I only have one CBG and it's a 4 string. I have it tunned to open F#, just a few cents higher than standard concert pitch at A444. I know that sounds odd, but its a trick I learned from playing sitar and Indian Classical Music. All of their instruments are tuned just a tad higher than western instruments, right around A444. From listening to so much Indian Classical Music, I've grown used to it, and find a certain unorthodox charm to it. Plus this allows me to play along with tanpura drones.

When playing along with others, I just adjust back to concert pitch. Thank god for the Korg CA-30 Chromatic Tuner.

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on October 5, 2010 at 7:18am

double post :(

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on October 5, 2010 at 7:19am

werner said:

this site should be very helpful, i guess, for chords & scales if your forget the other 3 strings :)
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/guitar/index_rb.html

Thanks for that link. I used it to make some chord cheat sheets for different tunings. If you set 3 strings to Open E and 3 for Open D (or whatever) you can map out all the major and minor chords for both tunings at ones. Probably only useful for a newb like me, but it saved scratching it all out on paper.

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