![]() ![]() Heavier 6th string down to G, presumably. G G C G C D - Gsus4 Used by Ani DiFranco.052, which plays and sounds like a clothesline when I tune it down that far. She must have used a heavier string than my light. That's a long ways down from E - a major 6th - but after listening to the recording, and trying it myself, I believe it. ![]() Acoustic Guitar magazine notes that Joni tunes the 6th string, like the 5th string, down to G. G G D G B D - Joni open G Used by Joni Mitchell on This Flight Tonight (from Blue, 1971).article in Guitar Player magazine, Sept 2004. G G D G G A - Gadd9 A favorite of Sonic Youth, used for Dripping Dream, Unmade Bed, others.I play banjo chords on the bottom four strings and use the top two for drones." It ended up not sounding like banjo at all it sounds kind of Celtic, I guess. I had a beater guitar and I had just started playing banjo and liked the tuning. He says, "I could see any banjo player thinking of it, but nobody taught it to me. This tuning was suggested by banjo and guitar player Alden Witham, who uses it primarily for the key of G. You could use a guitar 3rd string, of course, but the unwound 2nd string rings more like the high-tuned G string on a 5-string banjo. Replace the 6th string with a guitar 2nd string, and tune it to G, in unison with the G on the 3rd string. g G D G B D - banjo-style open G This tuning especially reveals how the various open G tunings are (per Pat Kirtley) derived from the standard tuning for 5-string banjo: g D G B D (low to high).Tunings especially for the keys of G and Gm Quick links: DADGAD Open G Nick Drake's tunings Michael Hedges's tuningsĮnter your search terms Submit search form Search within WA Tunings page Tunings in each section are ordered from higher at the top to lower at the bottom, roughly. String order: 6th (lowest) to 1st (highest), left to right: 6 5 4 3 2 1 Some of them, however, work well for more than one key - DADGAD, notably. The tunings are categorized according to the particular key they are designed for use in, or are most naturally suited to. I've tried to specifically indicate instances when strings are raised in pitch. In these 'other' tunings, the strings are most often lowered relative to their pitches in standard tuning. Just as with standard tuning, they necessarily sound some sort of chord when all of the strings are played open, but this is a side effect of the intention to make certain notes more available to the player (DADGAD, Martin Carthy's C tuning), to extend the range of the instrument (Robert Fripp's Crafty Tuning), or to achieve a special effect (Nashville Tuning). Some are minor modifications, involving tuning just one or two strings a bit higher or lower (Double Drop D), and some are wholesale reorganizations of the pitches assigned to the strings (Keola Beamer's Bb "slack key" tuning). The rest of these tunings are not really open tunings they're simply tunings that are different from 'standard' tuning. Open tunings are great for slide playing, since the slide wants to play all the strings it contacts at (above) the same fret. Many, but not all, of the following are 'open' tunings, in which the strings are intentionally tuned to produce a particular chord when one strums across all of the open strings. WA's Encyclopedia of Alternate Guitar Tunings Warren Allen's Encyclopedia of Alternate Guitar Tunings ( Source) ![]()
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