new (to me) tuning

[Daniel]

OPEN G!  Holy plectrums Batman!

I was today years old when first tried open G.  I think my life might just have changed.

I may have to try my entire repertoire in open G.

:0)

Daniel

[indexless]

Welcome to the G club Daniel….it worked for Muddy

[Chrisakadigdog]

It is so much fun. Aka taro patch .  Happy for you

 

[Old 97]

Talk to Fran. He’ll give you the directions.

[Matt Hayden]

Yep.  Learned it a long time ago.  Stuff works easily in it.

Try Fahey’s Sunflower tuning, too – CGCGCE

It’s remarkable how much works in it.

 

[tadol]

Do you need to swap out that low E? Tuning that far down with my current strings would be pretty rattly –

[Daniel]

On a 24.5″ scale, C is about as low as you van get without resorting to Mike Hedges types of string gauges. 🙂

Fun tidbit of info about open G: “Ohhhhhh.  THAT’s why Macawber* only has 5 strings.”  The low D gets in the way as often as not.

Though I’m having a lot of fun with “Wayfaring Stranger” playing the Dm like this: 020233.  Fattest fretted Dm chord I’ve ever heard.

 

*for those who don’t follow this stuff: Macawber is one of Keith Richards’ Telecasters.

🙂

Daniel

[Matt Hayden]

Micawber is named after a particular character in David Copperfield, FWIW.   He’s an honorable man in a dishonorable world.

And yeah, I have taken the low string off too; it’s weird that it gets in the way, but it does.

FWIW this thread had me playing Brown Sugar in Open G through my micawbered tele and DR until Beth told me I had to knock it off 🙂

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Matt Hayden.

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