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Permalink Reply by Tommy Phillips on October 9, 2015 at 3:15am

By "steel wire" do you mean something like picture hanger wire?  If so, watch out for stretching; you probably won't be able to keep your git in tune.  That stuff is not manufactured to withstand the tension you need to play music.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 9, 2015 at 8:14am

Hi Tom, thanks for the advise. I found out you are right, but it keeps tune longer than I expected.

For my onestrings I use steel wire from bicycle tires which do not stretch much but are more dificult to handle. They are too thick for my 3 string, too much tension on the guitar.

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on October 9, 2015 at 5:23am

Yep, you'd still be in open G and the slide or barre chords will be the same as in GDG tuning.

E would be EG#B

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 9, 2015 at 8:15am

Great!

Thanks for your reply!!

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Permalink Reply by JL on October 12, 2015 at 1:25am

tuned to GBd (1-3-5 tuning)  is a G-Major chord and you can use a slide with it but .........

the chords of the G Major scale are G Am Bm C D Em (F#dim) G and the minor chords are 1-3b-5 so with the 1-3-5 tuning and a slide or barring the strings you can only play major chords, not minor

that's why a lot of builders use 1-5-8 tuning, dropping that pesky 3/3b note and playing power chords instead of full chords G5 A5 B5 C5 D5 E5 (skip) G5

If you use frets, however, tune it to 1-3b-5 G-Bb-d and you can bar the frets for a minor chord, AND fret the middle string 1 fret higher for the major chord and you are set.

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Permalink Reply by JL on October 13, 2015 at 1:51am

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 12, 2015 at 3:14am

I could use 1-3-5 for major and tune to 1-3b-5 to play minor?

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Permalink Reply by Robert on October 12, 2015 at 4:23am

Uhh ignore my question plz

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