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Stringbreaker
Akahai
USA
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 Posted - 04/01/2004 : 3:28:12 PM
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I am still looking for techniques rarely used, and I don't mean picking the guitar with my teeth. One I have been experimenting with is with playing a left-handed guitar right handed. I'm using a classical for this and I have found a lot of strangeness with this tuning. Has anyone else tried this, and if so, with what tunings?
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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/01/2004 : 4:13:09 PM
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| Im kinda confused, its still the same tuning, do you mean your using your thumb to play bass lines on the treble strings? There are a number of folk artists that play with the strings reversed, but they usually play bass notes with their index/middle fingers (Bla Pahinui plays with reversed strings).If your playing standard chords with the strings reversed, id find some strangness in that too haha. |
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bonniej
Aloha
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Posted - 04/01/2004 : 7:02:28 PM
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Okay, I have a feeling I'm the old lady of the group. But, isn't playing well work enough. Why try something so unusal? A multitude of tunings is certainly enough for me.
But, good luck.
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Stringbreaker
Akahai
USA
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 11:40:55 AM
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Actually, the goal is for me to be a beginner all the time. I like this approach as a change, since the melody is emphasized by the thumb striking the notes. I am not offering an easier approach here, but an exercise to break out of habit patterns. I tend to wander into remembered chord shapes when I know a tuning too well, even when the melody wants to go somewhere else. This same approach managed to break me out of the doldrums in standard tuning. After working with taro patch for even a month, standard seemed alien to me, and I spent a good while finding voicings I had never used before.
Also, I see reversed strings to be a change in attitude as well. With the highest strings close to me, it feels like pulling the melody up towards me rather than pushing it away. But then, I do not claim to be rational on this issue. |
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 2:42:29 PM
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| Kinky, but interesting |
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