first you buy a very expensive vintage telecaster, a stratocaster will do to. bothwould be better even. second avintage tube amp.than you need bout 60 very expensive lessons from a pro guitarist. best you travel halfway across the globe for those.
once back home you put the tele and strat on display, forget almost all you learned and just listen to knotlenny's advise :P
What Darryl said. Also, some other things to consider:
1)Do you already play guitar, or another stringed instrument?
2)Are you playing slide?
3)Fretted or unfretted neck?
4)Your CBG's scale length (nut to twelfth fret x 2, or nut to bridge distance),
5)String note value or diameters (you can tune GDg from the middle 3 strings ADg of a standard 6-string set, but will need different strings for DAD tuning, such as the bottom three, EAD, from a standard set, depending upon your scale length)?
David Blackwell > Ron "Oily" SpragueApril 8, 2017 at 11:34am
Thanks for feed back. I do not already play a stringed instrument, I am very new to all of this. But I am very interested in learning. I am using a slide at times, My CBG is fretted. I have not measured nut to bridge yet. I purchased it from Smokee Stringz in DeLand Fl.
It is mostly a personal choice, but if you intend to sing along with your playing, matching your voice range is a major assett, there are a myriad of possible tunings you can chose from, the biggest advantage of gdg is there are a lot of "how too's" here and on you tube etc.Also , you will find that some guitars are just better suited to one tuning over others and sound better in a particular tuning, as all tunings can be found with one set of strings, it is easy to experiment by simply playing barre' chords, either with finger or slide and finding that which you prefer
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first you buy a very expensive vintage telecaster, a stratocaster will do to. bothwould be better even. second avintage tube amp.than you need bout 60 very expensive lessons from a pro guitarist. best you travel halfway across the globe for those.
once back home you put the tele and strat on display, forget almost all you learned and just listen to knotlenny's advise :P
Gdg tuning is very popular and useful because a LOT of songs are written in the key of G
and most of those are 3 chord songs using G (open) C (5th fret) and D (7th fret)
quick , easy , funny, and to the point .
I will try not to overthink the process.
cheers , good luck . most of all , have fun ;-)
1)Do you already play guitar, or another stringed instrument?
2)Are you playing slide?
3)Fretted or unfretted neck?
4)Your CBG's scale length (nut to twelfth fret x 2, or nut to bridge distance),
5)String note value or diameters (you can tune GDg from the middle 3 strings ADg of a standard 6-string set, but will need different strings for DAD tuning, such as the bottom three, EAD, from a standard set, depending upon your scale length)?
It is mostly a personal choice, but if you intend to sing along with your playing, matching your voice range is a major assett, there are a myriad of possible tunings you can chose from, the biggest advantage of gdg is there are a lot of "how too's" here and on you tube etc.Also , you will find that some guitars are just better suited to one tuning over others and sound better in a particular tuning, as all tunings can be found with one set of strings, it is easy to experiment by simply playing barre' chords, either with finger or slide and finding that which you prefer