Re: OT: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

No sweat, I was putting myself pretty far out there and didn't have a 
very thick branch to hang from. It's always interesting to hear about 
the paths that serious players take. I used to looove effects boxes, and 
may go there again someday, who knows.

That is a really, really pianistic voicing - pretty cool no matter how 
you pull it off! Now I'm thinking about voicing harmonic minor in 
different keys and seeing where that takes me...

best,

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> Dude, sorry to be so emphatic. To be honest,  I just went through a long
> period of minimizing my signal processing and simplifying my rig as a
> conscious choice to free myself of the reliance on effects, and it 
>helped me
> to realize I could jettison all but the most basic effects ( for me that 
>is
> compression, overdrive, delay, and reverb) and still get my music 
>across. It
> was liberating, and when I finally ended my effects sabbatical, it gave 
>me
> new inspiration for using stuff I hadn't used in a long time, Like filter
> effects, ring modulation and polyrhythmic delay. And I've been through
> periods where I got sick of DADGAD, where I felt played out in the 
>tuning,
> but recently I have been using the approach where I'll pick a mode I like
> and see how well I can voice that mode in a given tuning, and that will 
>open
> a compositional thread. For a long time I couldn't break out of the
> Blackmountainsidedaveygrahamceltic6/8reelyjiggydronytriplety vibe that
> DADGAD is known for. But try voicing D or A harmonic minor in that same
> tuning and it becomes a different thing altogether. I think it is 
>perfectly
> valid to use as many or as few tools as one needs to find there musical
> bliss. Per was originally asking about tunings to increase his range on 
>the
> instrument, and of course we all mutated away from that :)  I don't 
>think I
> belong to any kind of cool club by using alternate tunings, but I got to
> agree with Bob Brozman on this one, what we call standard tuning, for 
>all we
> know, was an arbitrary decision. Viva La difference!!!!
>  Bill
>
>
> PS the chord was a result of trying to play close piano voicing's in
> standard tuning, a result of a couple of lessons I took from pianist Art
> Lande many many years ago, I think he thought I was nuts:) I alternate 
>the
> low E, and the C#, B, and A on the A string as an alternating bass notes
> under the upper extensions of the chord, which is an E major add 9 add 
>11.
> Then I do massage therapy on my hands for several hours :)