Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings (OT)

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

yeah! he said he is content with that one and his low budget one
EADABE

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--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Duke <jeff_d@embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings (OT)
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:31 PM
> 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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