• Registered: 2007-12-08
  • Posts: 13

Topic: Altered tunings

Hello everyone.

I've been a selftaught player for quite sometime and lately have been looking for ways to achieve different sounds from the guitar. I have read a bit on altered tunings and tried a few of them ( EADGBD for example) but have had a hard time trying to figure out how to find the shapes for the chords according to the tuning.

If any of you have any information on altered tunings in general and how to find the shapes easily I would really apreciate it. Also if any of you has information on how to find in standard tuning the most common chord shapes in other positions different than position one. Thanks.

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  • Registered: 2007-04-25
  • Posts: 551

Re: Altered tunings

Drop tunings are really cool but you don't have to change the way you finger chords normally.  Drop-D is probably the most common, but if your low E string can handle it, you can go to drop-C, or even lower (I once playd an acoustic piece in drop-A).  If you learn to play slide, you can experiment with open tunings like open D or G.

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  • From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 1,359

Re: Altered tunings

Check out this guy. There are a few different open tunings, most with chords charts.

http://www.alanhorvath.com/LSN3.php

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  • From: NH
  • Registered: 2008-05-28
  • Posts: 66

Re: Altered tunings

check out this website for alter. tuning
http://www.strummeronline.com/

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