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re: Man, I think I finally had an epiphany with open guitar tunings after 50 years
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:41 pm to auggie
Posted on 11/12/26 at 5:41 pm to auggie
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I've been playing around with open tunings for a long time. the thing was, sometimes a guitar just wouldn't sound right in whatever tuning I was trying. It was frustrating when I only had 1 guitar.
This week I've been working on something that is a mix of a middle eastern type groove mixed with bluegrass licks for a certain song. I had been playing it in open D on my j180 which is a 25.5" scale guitar with full string tension. I decided to play it on my L-00 which is 24.75" scale and has lower string tension. It didn't sound right, so I tuned it up to an open E tuning. It worked beautifully.
I think the trick is: If you need to tune strings higher than standard tuning, use a short scale guitar, if you need to tune some strings down, use a full scale guitar.
+30 years ago when I was playing quite a bit of slide it was generally open E and occasionally open G for some Rolling Stones tunes and I think for Bad Company too. Later on I went through a double drop D tuning thing for awhile but now it's standard tuning and a little drop D.
Posted on 11/12/26 at 7:42 pm to SidewalkTiger
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a mix of a middle eastern type groove mixed with bluegrass licks
Quite the pairing
Honestly, it's working pretty well for the song, which is about a country guy, daydreaming about finding a magic lamp. Originally, I wrote it about 30 years ago as a hard core country song in the key of Dmajor. Now it's about 112 BPM in Eminor. I think guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle are going to work great for it. Will probably record it next week maybe along with another song.
Posted on 11/13/26 at 12:19 am to Bass Tiger
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+30 years ago when I was playing quite a bit of slide it was generally open E and occasionally open G for some Rolling Stones tunes and I think for Bad Company too. Later on I went through a double drop D tuning thing for awhile but now it's standard tuning and a little drop D.
I think that's how it is for most pickers that play popular covers, because that's mostly what was used.
When I started learning fingerpicking, it was sort of a natural thing to use the open tunings. You can play the root and bass notes so easily on the top strings with your thumb and pick out your chords on the bottom strings with your fingers and find some really different kinds of sounds, and it's not all that difficult, because all of the right notes are where you need them to be. It can sound like you're really doing a lot, but there's not much to it as long as you keep that rhythm rolling.
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