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More on/Moron Open Tunings

15 Dec 01 - 05:29 PM (#610603)
Subject: More on/Moron Open Tunings
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie

Holed up at home last week with an illness I got tired of masochistically working with different instruments and went back to the guitar on which I started too many years ago. I have a Yamaha (resurrected from a dumpster) that I keep tuned in open G, which is DGDGBD the way I do it.

It occurred to me that I could change that to G9 (DGDGCD) or to G13 by raising one of the lower D's to an E (or the top one, but that throws all the melodies off. Especially with the ninth tuning, I love the built-in jazzness of the whole thing. Before anybody asks me what other chords are, I don't know, I'm having fun just sort of 'frailing.'

There's a free idea for the day. CC


15 Dec 01 - 10:23 PM (#610779)
Subject: RE: More on/Moron Open Tunings
From: Mooh

Wouldn't the GDGDCD be Gsus4, not G9? Mooh.


16 Dec 01 - 02:39 AM (#610862)
Subject: RE: More on/Moron Open Tunings
From: Gary T

Yes, Mooh. G9 has the notes G, B, D, F, & A.