Acoustic Guitar Open Tuning
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Jul/100
Jul/100
Crazy 6-string acoustic guitar tunings – that WORK! =)?
Yo, pretty much *everybody* figures out you can drop either or both of your E strings down to D and have some new fun, but what about the more esoteric… what’s your favorite?
Please give them 6th string to 1st — you know –
standard tuning = E A D G B E,
so a standard open D tuning = D A D F# A D
(not really a crazy tuning, but one of my favorites–throws the dadgad’ers for a loop!)
…wow…there are either almost no guitar players here or alternate tuning here is virtually unknown! At least I got one fun answer. And that first guy–sorry to hear you’re not into experimentation–I have no idea why you were compelled to announce that for this question. I suppose you’re better than Segovia ever was, and if only Kottke knew, he’d be begging you for pointers… just to name a couple who have used alternate tunings.
BDDDDD
That’s the tuning that’s used in the song “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls. It’s so ridiculous to change the tuning to…
The B-String is tuned up to a D, while the rest are tuned down. It makes the low E really loose, but it actually sounds pretty cool.
D Minor Open tuning Acoustic Guitar rysa5’s 2010
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