Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings (OT)

["Jeff Duke" <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>]

I always liked Adrian Belews old tuning E A D A B E. He used it alot on 
Twang Bar King and the 80s Crimson release Three of a Perfect Pair .

Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings (OT)


> My favorite altered tuning and a list of resources for many more down 
> below:
>
> I'm just in love with D A D E on a four string fretted or fretless bass.
>
> This sus2 tuning gives beautiful Lydian bar chords and lends itself to
> really simple
> sus chord diadic and triadic chord shapes.
>
> I'm just over using the hell out of it in the last year.
>
> I even tuned my twelve string steel acoustic to this tuning
>
> D   A   D   E   D   D
>
> This gives a full   8 strings of D so the open tuning stuff just sounds
> like a shimmering
> god.   It's just beautiful......................
>
> I'm not a guitarist , but  I play one on stage occasionally, by the
> way........not in my brother, or Ted's league by any stretch
> of the imagination,   but I love the though of using the guitar as
> almost an open tuned Zither.
>
> I love that David Crosby once had a D D D D D D  open tuned guitar on a
> tune.
>
> I even have two tribes at www.tribe.net called    Weird Guitar  (for
> people using guitars in unusual, exotic and creative
> 'out of the box' ways)   and Weird Zither  (for people doing the same
> thing..............I have a Guitar as Zither thread
> on the Weird Zithers tribe you might want to check out.
>
> ***********
> ***********
>
> I was fortunate to record a few records and to tour with the wonderful
> Alternate Tuning guru,  Britain's Martin Simpson
> for a while and he hipped me to a lot of cool things.    He has a theory
> that there are five basic simple chord shapes and that, once learned,
> can be morphed around on any number of altered tunings for a guitar to
> produce really beautiful results.
>
> I can highly recommend his book on Alternate Tunings
> and this book/DVD package called
> *MARTIN SIMPSON TEACHES ALTERNATE TUNINGS*
> 
>http://www.guitargallerymusic.com/shopping.php?do=display_product&item_number=AL20415
>
> Additionally,  I've enjoyed these books excellent books by Mark Hanson
> *THE ALTERNATE TUNINGS GUIDE FOR GUITARS  *(one of those cool ,  fit in
> the guitar case slender books)
> and his larger
> *THE COMPLETE BOOK OF ALTERNATE TUNINGS * by Mark Hanson
> and a very cool picture chord book:
> *ALTERNATE TUNINGS   PICTURE CHORDS*
>


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