Alternate Tunings for Boosting Creativity

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Welcome to this tutorial on Alternate Tunings! The aim of this tutorial is not to provide you with tons of different tunings, nor to show you how to tune your guitars to these tunings. Let's assume that you already know how to tune your guitar. We will approach the concept of altered tunings from the standpoint of using them to increase creativity and to f...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So, in this second example we take a common "country roll" arpeggio (like the one used in my Bridging the gap to Country tutorial), and see how we can use that in this open E tuning. The challenge when trying to apply more scale based licks in an open tuning (seeing how then you would most likely WANT to stay in the key more rigidly), is to fi...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now, the DADGAD-tuning, or open sus4 tuning as it is also called, is a very common tuning in both modern rock, and alternative pop. I guess for the mainstream audience it was brought to light during the grunge-era more than anything else, when bands where trying to find that "in between" sound, sounding minor without playing regular old minor chord...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: The final tuning is derived from the DADGAD-tuning, and is the same apart from the G being tuned up to A, thus having A on both the second and third string. The use of two identically tuned strings are also a great source of inspiration, and can create many cool riffs and ideas! If used on the lower strings (say to low E or A-strings) you can crazy...

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