Re: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options OR for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT lol

[Marc Marshall <agentlesoul2004@yahoo.com>]

Well, I haven't tried that but I HAVE done the opposite - narrow the range of the entire guitar to about a couple of octaves from lowest to highest  LOL  I borrowed the Sonic Youth trick of using just 3 strings in pairs  A,D,G    so low to high it would be  A's 36 36     D's 26 26      G's 17 17    you can tune these many many ways - go for the octave with GGDDGG      or have fun with some dissonance FGCDFG
you can get great single and half step apart tunings this way, and when you add just a little distortion, the ethereal sonic bliss is intoxicating!!  Sorry to not be able to help with the fiths/ wide orchestration thread but I wanted to add somthing  that maybe you all have not run accross in your travels. 

 

Marc Marshall

 

 

"I am human, I am large, I contradict myself"

 

.....and then some 

--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:19 PM

Per,

Have just begun working in the Crafty tuning of fifths plus a third on top ... have to say that the guitar certainly seems to have more "presence" (an acoustic/electric, not my Godin xtSA!).

And I have not used a custom string set, though I may be doing that in the very near future, as I would like to the get the overall tension of the "set" lower and closer to what I have on the Godin.

Best,

Dennis

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone here on the list having tried tuning a guitar in fifths for
wider orchestration options? Or even wider intervals? Would make sense
when looping to get lower bass and higher highs. I guess you have to
pick a custom string set for this.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com

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