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| RWD |
Posted - 01/07/2013 : 05:51:50 AM
Wow, I put my martin in standard tuning this morning to learn a Tracie Chapman tune. First time in nearly three years!..all hell is breaking loose! LOL |
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| Russell Letson |
Posted - 01/09/2013 : 08:15:01 AM
Playing in one key in a compatible open tuning avoids the tiny dissonances that an all-keys tempered tuning like standard requires, especially if you ignore whatever the electronic tuner says and use your ear to get perfect consonances. And even in standard tuning, if you're going to play in G, it's possible to tweak the strings (in my experience, the D, G, and especially the pesky B) to get that sweet, barbershoppy perfection. Then I play something in, say F or B-flat and have to retweak. (My Goodall is especially demanding, since it puts out a lot of overtones.)
Harvey Reid has a nice essay on tuning with special attention to the guitar--
http://www.woodpecker.com/writing/essays/tuning.html
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| thumbstruck |
Posted - 01/09/2013 : 05:49:05 AM
Some music historians think that "tight key" is a compromise between open G (Taropatch was documented in lute tab over 400 years ago!) and open E. Slipry1 says that the people's key is G, and it lays good in standard tuning (my Bluegrass roots is ashowin'). |
| sirduke58 |
Posted - 01/09/2013 : 12:26:06 AM
I tune to standard periodically to change the pace. Makes my guitar feel & sound ugly. Kind of tiny & claustrophobic. The versatility of the standard tuning can't be matched but I'll never love "tight key" as much as slack key. Not even close!!! |
| slkho |
Posted - 01/07/2013 : 09:46:20 AM
Slack key tuned guitars get very tempermental...haha
~slkho |
| thumbstruck |
Posted - 01/07/2013 : 06:13:53 AM
That's why I keep one guitar in standard and the other in Taropatch. |
