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Thread #43260   Message #3785553
Posted By: Stanron
15-Apr-16 - 09:17 PM
Thread Name: Guitar tuning DAGDAD
Subject: RE: Guitar tuning DAGDAD
This has been a truly wierd thread. The original poster explains a perfectly logical, step by step, route to a tuning he likes and can use and just gets a load of abuse.

So 14 years on, if anyone is still interested

  Em
  
  2 2 4 5 2 2
  
  or
  
  E minor
  ╒═╤═╤═╤═╤═╕
  │ │ │ │ │ │
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  R O │ │ O O
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  │ │ │•│ │ │
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  │ │ 0 │ │ │
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  │ │ │•O │ │
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  
  where R is the root, and
  
  Am
  
  2 3 2 2 3 2
  
  or
  
  A minor
  ╒═╤═╤═╤═╤═╕
  │ │ │ │ │ │
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  O │ R O │ O
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤
  │ O │•│ O │
  ├─┼─┼─┼─┼─┤


again R is the root.

These are both bar chords and moving them up or down will get any other minors you need.

You could use just part of them