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All your sounds are music bro, music is subjective

When your in a rut, bust a nut.

This should be taught in school. Ruts are part of life. Musically, I agree %100 with change. Especially when you get stuck or hit a “rut”.

@@farukleonaltinsoy9151 I think what you're saying is taste in music is subjective? If sound intentionally moves up and down in pitch to a regulated tempo, that is objectively music whether someone likes what's playing or not. Even what I do technically counts 🤣

Alexander Rosenbaum comes to mind.

The closely related D G D G B E is used occasionally used in the Classical Guitar repertoire, particularly in transcriptions of Spanish piano pieces. It's another beautiful tuning.

What songs or pieces would you recommend in this style?

What songs or pieces would you recommend in this style?

@@bernalm3067 Not sure if your comment was directed to me or not. If it was, I would recommend learning "La Maja De Goya" by Enrique Granados. Listen to Segovia to hear how this fantastic piece should be played.

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funny you should say dat . i believe Gregory's Come&Go Blues is in Open G; easy to play...Just noticed someone posted a version 7 yrs. ago in DGDGAD.

If your name was Bob, would they think differently?

Wait why would they hate jamming with you for a tuning?

A slight tweak is to make it DADAAD which works phenomenally with any drone instrument in D or A.

@@andreasfrom582 For sure. DADAAD mirrors other conceptual open-fifth tunings like ones that Robbie Basho has used before. Bb-F-Bb-F-Bb-F is a really fun tuning to play with, if you can find an acoustic that can handle that level of detuning!

Devin Townsend got me into open B and when I went back to standard tuning, my writing got less creative. Hopefully my next guitar, I'll be going back to open B.

Love DADGAD!

@@felinekaiju4517 I'm currently learning a song in open B! Sam Wong Hotel by Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek incidentally is the one who got me into DADGAD, too)

Muddy called it “Spanish tuning.” But he also played slide tuned to standard pitch. The man knew his business.

Which is odd, considering his previous band mate Brian Jones played in open tunings (see I Can’t Be Satisfied from 1965 where Jones plays in open G)... Keef’s revisionism does him no favours.

@@larrypower8659 Warren does it too, sez then he doesn't have to switch gtrs or re-tune.

Any violist can tell you...what is THE TRUTH? C IS ON THE MIDDLE LINE!

I saw it.

I saw it too, felt it even more

Yeah open E always sounded more like country rock to me, but Open G is crazy, it can sound bluegrass, country, swampy blues, and even metal

@@malaquiasalfaro81 Open E sounds country? I've never felt that way. Duane was all open E.

@@67goldtops Duane Allman? He sounds like Southern Rock and therefore strongly country influenced lol, if that's who you were referring to. Either way, the Allman brothers do not sound swampy at all

@@malaquiasalfaro81 Swampy? Who said anything about swampy? I responded to YOUR comment that Open E sounded like "country rock." Duane Allman made his living playing bottleneck in Open E. So Does Derek Trucks. Neither of those guys sound "country." And your Southern Rock. moniker for the Allman Bros is grossly incompetent. They hated that label despite spawning many bands who used it. The Allman Bros were a Progressive Blues band, as Greg always said. They had far more in common with Mingus than anything "southern." That you think "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" sounds "country" is just elite level comedy. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you've never experienced much of Duane's playing, let alone that of Mingus.

@@67goldtops well I would definitely agree that the Allman Brothers could be much better classified as progressive Blues. And yes I think I misread my previous comment and blurred it into yours (I’m at work haha) Still I would say still say the Allman Brothers doesn’t sound particularly bluesy, even with the Open E Tuning. This is similar to how Hard Rock like Led Zeppelin and Cream draw heavily from the Blues but the majority of their work pulls in such a different direction, it no longer resembles the 1950s Electric Blues and early 1960s soul on which they had originally based their sound. I still stand by the term country however, as the term itself is a gross oversimplification of rural American music. The earliest Country records that were not old-time music were literally called Hillbilly Blues, an apt description. So Country music by the late 20s and onward would continue to embrace the Blues and other popular black music like Swing in different quantities over the following decades. To my point, Country Music has built itself on embracing the Blues tradition, but often times without the same cultural experiences that Bluesmen faced, and it produced a similar sounding but distinct sound. Country Boogie vs Jump Blues, Honky-Tonk vs late 40s and 50s R&B etc…. So, because of the progressive nature of many of the hippie-psychedelic-age bands, their blues influenced music resembles the blues less and less, just like Country music. That is why I said Open E sounds more “country” because it IS based on Blues, but has more or less appropriated certain tunings, keys and motifs to the point that it is common for folks to hear a certain lick and think it is, “Country.” Hope I was able to explain more clearly, but yeah I agree a lot with what you said, just disagreeing to what degree I find many late 60s early 70s bands to be ‘bluesy.’

Look at Keith

I always remember it because the 3 inner strings make a G chord and tune the other 3 strings accordingly.

I totally agree about Johnny Winter....and Edgar ain't half bad either :-)

Ahhh... the great Johnny Marr, so so good

I love that "tune it spanish" have to remember that

hahaha

Me too lol

I play that one in open E.

Indeed, just recorded a song on Open-C

Yes it is!

Also that’s the way, from Led Zep III :)

Traveling Riverside Blues, In My Time Of Dying

Oia o cara ensinando cultura estrangeira. Rachei no big onion kkkk.

Adorooooooo viola caipira !! E cavaquinho também 🙏🙌 I wish our two countries could mail things back-and-forth without problems and enormous cost 😢 I don’t know if the issue is with Correiros ou customs at the USA but, the struggle is real. I telephoned staff at Mercado Livre because I wanted to buy a zabumba, but the lady in brasil said “não podemos mandar pra fora do país.” I asked her why and she just said: “não se. Mas não podemos.” I love Brazilian music so so so much though 🇺🇸↔️🇧🇷

Also there's Russian tuning ( 7 strings, dbgDBGD). A whole new world to explore.

Keep playing it. I saw another video on Travis Picking, and even the pro's needed TEN years before those thumb picks felt normal. So, give it some time. Here you gotta get used to the dropped tuning, there is a slide on one of your fingers. Maybe you got yourself a resonator guitar. Your brain has enough stuff to process, that is new. My enthusiastic advice: make many hours on that thing, don't give up early. Good licks will come, good luck!

@@voornaam3191 I'm inspired by reading this, thank you Sir!! 💯

@@voornaam3191 I had a friend years ago whose tutor taught him Travis picking right from the outset. Seeing him get fingerpicking so soon is what inspired me to persist at it when I took up guitar myself much later in life. It took just a weekend to learn the basics; one finger pattern bedded in so that it cycles with hardly a thought is all that's needed to begin with and it sounds so pleasing. After that I couldn't put the guitar down; since they won their independence my fingers and thumb seem to learn all by themselves now. To begin with I learned the basics of Freight Train and Dust in the Wind and just played them over and over whilst watching TV. Eventually the motion becomes second nature and each new pattern just a variation built on that foundation.

@@-Pol- WOW -what a rap!!! So, there is indeed HOPE?!?!? lol. The Journey of thousand miles begins with one step...!

Kevin Davis ... Me too. Just now getting the hang of it. Keep trying....

I am extremely interested in hearing more of your story of learning to play using Open G!!! Next week I will be starting my granddaughter on guitar and intend to use Open G. I'm going to take 3 strings off the guitar...leaving only strings 3, 4, and 5 (root, 5th, octave of root). If she is successful playing along "on the 1" (beat 1 of the measures) with "Tulsa Time" (just 2 chords) then I'll give her a 4th string (string 2) and we'll get into more songs with minors and additional fingers. Then, add the 1st string, then the 6th string. I have been looking for tutorials here on KZfaq that use this approach but your comment is the closest thing I've found yet.

@@retiredwonks I am responding not knowing your level of guitar expertise.. if you already know some of this please just disregard it.....What I did was tune the guitar to open G. Even though I kept the Low E string on the guitar I rarely strummed it. It was easier for me to bar the first 5 strings and not worry about the 6th string. Since I was trying to just learn strumming patterns thats what I focused on. I used my index finger and barred across the first 5 strings. I think in reality I was probably just getting 3 strings 75% of the time when I first started, but over time my fingers got stronger and I was covering all of them, even though I still just strummed the first 5. To me it just sounded better if I left the 6th string out. Then I checked what the sound was like at each fret when I barred that particular fret. For the most part they all sounded good, but I wanted to hear how it sounded if I combined a few in sequence. So occasionally I would take a break from practicing patterns and would just go from fret to fret barring it and strumming once on each one to see what it sounded like. Hearing how melodic that sounded kept me interested in continuing. As a side note I found if I tipped my hand so the side of my finger did the barring it seemed to work better. To help eliminate the pain, I cut the finger off a surgical glove and just covered my finger with that, when I was just doing the barring exercises. Depending on how small your granddaughter's fingers are may make it necessary to find something else. But honestly after a little while it wasn't necessary for me to do that. I found I was probably pressing too hard. Anyway, I found a youtube video that provided me information on different strumming patterns and then I started practicing the patterns like, down, down, up, down being one of them. There are many to learn as you may already be aware of. I didn't try to learn them all. I just worked on it until I was confident I could emulate a pattern if I heard it in a song. I also found that a thinner pick was more forgiving when strumming. The flexibility of a thinner pick really helped when I was just starting. I think I used a .46mm pick when I started and went up as I felt needed. Also lower guage strings will also help. They flex more and are easier to press down to the fretboard. For strings, if you have an electric guitar you can get 5 sets for something like $13.99 on Amazon. They are made by Donner. They are decent enough strings to learn on and very affordable. They sell them in single sets also but the 5 set box is a great deal. Usually as you probably know you can only get 3 sets for what they give 5 for. Once I got the strumming down I started working on learning Chords. They have videos out there that will teach two finger chords as well as the more complicated ones. I did a search on KZfaq for "songs with two finger chords and a whole bunch came up. So I started with 2 finger chords because it was easier for me. Once I got decent at those I started adding the more complicated chords using 3 and 4 fingers. I used a site from a guy called Eric Blackman who teaches these chords. He has a very calming voice and was very easy to follow. That being said, there are so many out there I'm sure you will find something that fits your needs. If you have any other questions I would be happy to answer them.

Love that one. Especially the bass.

Yes. "What Will You Say" is Open G as well. Both amazing songs.

Check out John Fahey and Leo,Kottke. Both are acoustic but that may be a good way to,get out of a rut.

I came to alternate tunings via The Doobie Brothers as I'm crazy about their songs. I wish I could say I learned directly from the old delta bluesmen or even the Brits. But it was the Doobs for me. That being said, I love playing She Talks to Angels.

technically it was in open F# ..

In 1979 I attended a Doobies concert and tripped out for a song called, Clear as the Driven Snow. The fingering looked simple so I went home to try to play it. Years later, i found out it was in modal C. That opened the world of open tunings to me.

There’s literally nothing mind boggling about it. Playing in an open tuning is WAY less complicated than standard tuning. You strum open, it’s a G chord. So no matter where you bar your finger across, you’re playing a full chord.

I personally leave theory alone until I’m trying to figure out what the hell I just did.

Keith Richards should be the first.

Keef is the man!

Keith Richards

Duane Allman is Open E all the way

Come and go Blues