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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on February 2, 2014 at 1:35am

The DGB tuning is 3/4 of a tenor guitar (4 string tuning) of DGBd, with the 4321 strings. An alternate tuning is DGBe. These can be versatile for chords, finger picking & solo/lead play, and slide...a win-win. Imho, the 4 string tuning offers more tonal variety.

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on February 2, 2014 at 2:19am

Several people here use this tuning.

Give it a try you might like it and any decent chord generator can provide you with different chord shapes for any tuning you choose. There is a small free app called Fret that I believe I downloaded from somewhere on the site that is really good for generating chords for CBGs in various tunings.

I tune a lot of my 4 strings to DGBe so people that are used to playing 6 stringers in standard tuning can transition easier

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Permalink Reply by Ice Bob on February 2, 2014 at 9:39am

i use The 123 and 4 string in a pack and tune open G (DGbd) i didn't realize 3 string players just add a B for the first string different way to get there i guess im more of a tenor guitar player  no rules

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 2, 2014 at 9:58am

Well, it's 3/4 of banjo tuning, so it should work well. You can get some Interesting effects tuning the B down to Bb. Both are playable, especially for jazzy type things with similar chord shapes to a 6-banger. Experiment!

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