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| New Open Tuning Chord Charts for Guitar | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27th, 2005 12:37 am |
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Richard Hefner Administrator 
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AB has kindly provided ezFolk with chord charts for several different open guitar tunings. Included are the following...
If you're a guitar player interested in learning these open tunings be sure to check them out! There are links to each of them on the main guitar tutorial page... http://www.ezfolk.com/guitar/Tutorials/tutorials.html 
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27th, 2005 10:06 pm |
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Sheehan Approved
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AB- Great job Man! Thanks for sharing the charts! I think El Mc Meen uses that low C tuning you have listed.He arranges a lot of Celtic and Gospel tunes.I never met him but he lives close by me. Here are the tunings I use: Tunings used in Recordings: Hog Farm, Jump into the Fire, Governor Mountain, Public Domain, Freedom Place...Modern Man, Come Here Friend, Life Song, Beyond Your Means, Old Mill Rag, Thursday Night Open Mic, As I stand, Cliffs Of Moher, Self Made Man, Bader's Field, Cabin Fever, My habits are killing me, It don't come easy, Let it Rip, Together we Dream Other tunings used in covers: Open G : Water Song; Jorma, Fearless; Waters, Gillmore Double D : Four and Twenty; S. Stills, Cinnamon Girl; N.Young
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| Posted: Tue May 17th, 2005 08:49 pm |
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UkeForever Approved 
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Thank you!!! I've been dying for something like this. I recently saw David Wilcox play in San Diego, and this has revitalized my interest in the guitar. He uses open C in a lot of his songs as well as DADGAD, and an open G iteration with a B in the bass and cut capo on the 4th. The sound my guitar makes is amazing me. As a piano player, I've always been somewhat dissatisfied at some of the chord voicings in standard tuning. The alternate tunings sure changes the notion that the guitar can't make that close-interval sound in conjunction with a low bass note. The idea of open tuning has opened me up to the idea of tuning the guitar to an open chord with a voicing I like and then "finding" the chords. All the rules are gone; I just have to be open to new/inventive fingerings. This is very inspirational for songwriting. So far I found this book, but it seems rather rudimentary: Alternate Tunings for Guitar Has anyone tried out this one: Hal Leonard book or this one: Matt Smith or this one: Quick Reference Guide? Last edited on Tue May 17th, 2005 08:49 pm by UkeForever |
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| Posted: Wed May 18th, 2005 10:29 am |
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1four5 Approved 
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Uke forever on guitar! This could really get good! From a blues point of view, open tuning also totally rekindled my guitar playing excitment. I've listened to blues for years, and with the uke and guitar, have tried finding these feelings and emotions for the last year or so. I keep getting closer, but always feel like it's not quite there. When I tried open G, I was blown away at the first strum and instantly heard where a lot of the blues I love were coming from. The first low down nasty rot gut strum of open D on my reso sent me straight into blues heaven. You are right UF...all the rule are completely gone!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 4th, 2005 05:21 pm |
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ThirdRatePoet Approved 
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I've always been a fan of the DADFsharpAD 'Louisiana' tuning - excellent for open/slide blues playing (it's just DADGAD with the G dropped one halftone - but I guess you can all work that out!) Dan http://www.ezfolk.com/audio/bands/665/music.php
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| Posted: Tue Sep 27th, 2005 01:08 pm |
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irisnevins Approved
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I made up a tuning by accident.....it's DADGBD.....not quite open G or DADGAD. I THOUGHT I was (again from failing memory!) going to open G....just to experiment. Nevertheless a tune came out of the playing around, I call it Laura's tune, written for the college graduation of a surrogate "niece". It will be on my hopefully out in a few months solo guitar CD.....after that I'll put it up at the Croi Sasta site. It's the only non-Celtic sounding one. It's a really good tuning for fingerpicking melodies, even if it was an accident.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 03:18 am |
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CMHansen Approved 
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Yep, those are the chords for DADGAD alright. I know of a few more exotic chords too. Some of which, I could'nt even tell you what they were.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 03:19 am |
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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One of the first guitar pickers I tried to strum along with had his axe tuned EADGBD, nearly drove me crazy trying to figure out if he was playing a C or G chord!  He called it a "Tennessee Tuning" - I guess because he was from that neck of the woods. The top four strings (I now know), are the open G tuning of a five-string banjo. All you need to do is retune 5 & 6 to G, and you have a low-drone wood-topped banjo   Keep on pickin'Brad
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| Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 10:07 am |
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1four5 Approved
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Hey Brad...I've already taken it one step further I got a .09 string and used it for the 5th string on my resonator guitar. It's now tuned DgDGBD, the 5 strings tuned exactly like a banjo with the high g. What a blast, and some really cool stuff with the bass D string. If you think about anything you do on your banjo on the 4th string, just imagine dropping to the 6th string and doing it an octive lower
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| Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 07:15 pm |
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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1Four5- Post, post, post! Keep on pickin'Brad
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| Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 09:46 pm |
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1four5 Approved
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Hopefully soon! I'm hoping to use my National next time I jam with the guys on some of the songs. Some of the slow country stuff is tough to come up with banjo riffs...but the same thing on a reso with a bunch of sustain sounds sweet! It's also cool, because if I blow a string or something on either one (banjo or guitar)...I can grab the other one and keep playing
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19th, 2009 06:34 pm |
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johnny warden Approved
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Hi I need a little help I have been a guitar player a long time,can't figure out chords for open c not to mention all the other non standard tuning.What I need is a chord chart,I.m not good with computers.maybe you can tell me how to find them in regular computer stupid terms Johnny
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19th, 2009 09:52 pm |
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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I don't know if this book is still in print, but you might check Amazon or one of the other book seller sites on the web for Chords and Tunings for Fretted Instruments by Larry Sandberg. It was originally published by Oak Publications in 1977.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20th, 2009 12:45 pm |
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mikelewis Approved 
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Here's a good one I printed out and saved to my hard drive. I use open D tuning a lot so this has helped me to not only learn the chordings but how to create my own voicings. http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/alternatetunings/opentunings.pdf
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20th, 2009 10:38 pm |
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ThirdRatePoet Approved
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mikelewis wrote: Here's a good one I printed out and saved to my hard drive. I use open D tuning a lot so this has helped me to not only learn the chordings but how to create my own voicings. Mike - that's a great resource - nice one! I have been recording quite a few new songs in a 'live' fashion - no overdubs or what have you - and I find myself almost full circle and using open G - DGDGBD - what a great tuning - so easy to tune up and down from, versatile and well voiced. It does suit a bigger guitar, mind you - it zings out of my spruce top Walden, and rings out of my cedar top Takamine...both dread size. On the parlour guitar it seems to lose some of its sweetness and become a real blues tuning! Weird.... Dan
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