RE: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options

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

Actually i believe there has been a lot of pop tunes backed with this 
tuning in the background while playing another track in standard,is almost 
as popular as the nashville tuning.There is also a variation used often 
CGDGBD,a tune that comes to mind is the Eagles "best of my Love",it gives 
the track a nice deeper sound.
Cheers
Luis


Thats why i like the CGDGBE tuning, D to light e are just as usual so it's 
easy to solo. You don't have to relearn that much. it also almost open G 
which is great for some stones stuff and a C chord with low C, G E(4th 
string secondfret)G, C (B string first fret) and E sound HUGE :-). I tried 
this one of my 27" scale Swans and it sound GREAT with a ordinary 
d'addario 010 set. VERY Cool tuning that i have not seen that often.
Is there anybody else fooling around with this tuning?? Does it have name?
 
Anders
www.soundclick.com/AndersBergdahl 
 


Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:44:38 +0100
Subject: Re: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options
From: mark@markfrancombe.com
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

I've been watching this tread with grrat interest, I think its amazing how 
so many of you have experimented with tunings, and have of course tried 
some things myself on spare guitars, for effects. (Like for example the 
tunings that Rick mentioned, about tuning the whole guitar to one note for 
groovy droning noise stuff etc).

What really amazes me however is... do you guys reall RE-learn all your 
scales and chords for all these different tunings?  I mean, if you tune to 
this 5ths approach... how do you play a chord!!! Its taken me 33 years 
(since I first got a guitar) to learn a few girl guide chords, and a 
couple of bar chords.... one (ok two) scales, that I can slide up and 
down... but the thing that has stopped me REALLY getting into tuning is 
this... Do I really have to forget what I ever knew... and dedicate my 
life to a new tuning????

I myself have been using baritone guitar for 10 years, with a A based 
tuning, this gives me the LOWS I need for bass parts, and I use a lot of 
pitch shifting, and can go high enough... but this is still standard 
tuning basically, just tined down a bit...

Have to try out this 5ths thing

m


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net> 
wrote:



Per Boysen 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


I have been tuning in straight fifths for  the past 15 years or so....

http://jpsongs.com/troubadortech/zwickrig.htm




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