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  • Del Puckett February 28, 2016 at 6:54pm

    https://youtu.be/C7zpmlDNQZ0 

  • Moritz Voegeli February 12, 2016 at 2:12pm

    Which tuning you prefer depends also from whether you are playing for yourself or with others, if so, there is a difference in which key you choose to play together: as an example, preferably GDG for keys in G, A, B, C, and DAD for keys in D, E, F, G, to stay for chords below the 15th fret.

  • King Rubbish February 9, 2016 at 12:26pm

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    • Dani Basaldua > King Rubbish February 9, 2016 at 8:58pm

      do yall make these diagrams or find them? because these are really good..lol. thanks king rubbish

  • King Rubbish February 9, 2016 at 12:26pm

    Wow, that is a really helpful diagram from Turtlehead - it will save me a lot of head scratching when I'm figuring what strings to buy!  And good advice on working out the major scale intervals from Cause. 

    Just to follow up on the 513 tuning, below is a sheet of basic chords - you just need to figure out where the root note is for the chord you want.  You can pretty much play in any key using this method just like a regular six string guitar.  Note that there are a lot more possibilities than these, if you start substituting notes or adding in open strings there are all sorts of interesting chords to find... 

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    • Dani Basaldua February 8, 2016 at 9:36pm

      hey turtlehead, this is very nice. I am going to save this picture :D much appreciated 

  • Cause the Blue rat February 8, 2016 at 7:44pm

    I"m really going to have to try the 5,1,3 tuning. 

    King answered the question 'what does those numbers mean?" Thanks King. I'd also like to add I use major tunings. Not miner. 

    If you have a fretted guitar a major scale is easy to find. It goes like this.

    First note then. Whole step, whole step, half. Whole step, whole step, whole step half. Start on any note and go up. A whole step means to jump a space. Half a step means to play the next fret up. 

    • Dani Basaldua > Cause the Blue rat February 8, 2016 at 9:26pm

      thanks king rubbish! I understand it now. Makes more sense now..and ive been messing around with that open d tuning. 

  • King Rubbish February 8, 2016 at 7:20pm
    The numbers are referring to the notes of the scale your guitar is tuned to. For example, if you're tuned to the key of G then the '148' mentioned above would be:

    Low string - 1/G (root)
    Middle string - 4/C (4th degree of the scale)
    High string - 8/G (octave of root)

    The common 'GDG' tuning would be called '158' using this method (root, fifth, octave).

    Personally I'm a big fan of the 513 tuning as taught by Keni Lee Burgess. It really is a very flexible tuning and opens up a lot of options for chord playing. On a GDG guitar you would retune to ADF#, giving you an open D tuning.
  • Cause the Blue rat February 8, 2016 at 3:24pm

    On a fretted three or four string, G,D,G = 1,5,8

    1,4,8

    1,3,8

    standard

    On a slide only,

    1,4,8,

    1,4,6,

    standard

    Really I've played around with a lot of different tunings. These are just the ones I'm using the most right now. Sometimes I'll tune it up weird just to see what I can come up with. It really is a lot of fun. Each different tuning brings on new possibilities. 

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