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Tunings associated with specific guitarists, pieces, or performances: somewhat loosely delimited [32 tunings]
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• F-A-C-F-C-F •
Fostered to facilitate the viral virtuosity of Erik Mongrain’s lap-tapping style…
—Albert Collins Fm—
• F-C-F-Ab-C-F •
Take a high-wound blues walk with the jovial owner of a 100ft amp cable…
—Albert King F6—
• C-F-C-F-A-D •
Favoured by the Mississippi colossus towards the end of his legendary life…
—Black Crow—
• Bb-Bb-Db-F-A-Bb •
Deep-sided double-octave designs drawn from Joni’s drumless funk…
—Blown a Wish—
• F-C-F-Bb-Bb-G •
MBV’s odd DADGAD tweak, with a glorious variety of horizontal intervals…
—Bruce Palmer (‘Judy Blue Eyes’)—
• E-E-E-E-B-E •
The long, multi-chaptered history of Woodstock’s greatest love song…
—Cello (‘Haircut’)—
• C-G-D-A-B-E •
Expand your low-end capacities with Pavement’s stacking of perfect 5ths…
—Coyote—
• C-G-D-F-C-E •
Joni’s graphic tale of flirtation is built on a close-clustered major sequence…
—Dracula—
• C-G-C-F-Bb-D •
Robust interval pairs from Don Ross, set in a neat descending order…
—Equilibrium—
• G-A-D-E-A-E •
Architectural low balance by Erik Mongrain, well-scattered with stable 5ths……
—Ethereal—
• D-A-C#-F#-C#-D •
Electric fretboard tapping from Ichika Nito, with divergent parallel octaves…
—Funky Avocado—
• B-A-D-G-A-D •
Bass-buzzing funk from Michael Hedges, jammed over a local disco…
—Gambale—
• A-D-G-C-E-A •
Like a 6-3str capo at 12fr, unearthed via synth patches by Frank Gambale…
—Ghost Reveries—
• D-A-D-F-A-E •
Good enough for the Swedes who claim to be the ‘world’s most evil band’…
—Godzilla—
• Db-Ab-Eb-E-B-E •
Don Ross’ tantalising blend of bassy slackness and high-end clarity…
—Gothic—
• Eb-G-D-A-Bb-C •
Ichika Nito’s complex chordal canvas places different tones on each string…
—Hejira—
• C-G-D-F-G-C •
Stretching to divine arpeggiations, from helping Joni’s ‘run with honour’…
—I Only Said—
• E-A-B-G-G-E •
Kevin Shields’ vast shifts present phase-friendly unison possibilities…
—Iris—
• B-D-D-D-D-D •
John Rzeznik’s odd-wound power ballad balances purity with dissonance…
—José González—
• D-A-D-F#-B-E •
Lute-like nylon-string magic from the low-fi Swedish songwriter…
—Karnivool—
• B-F#-B-G-B-E •
Australia’s low-tuning prog explorers place a power chord in the deep…
—Magic Farmer—
• C-F-C-G-A-E •
Michael Hedges’ pensive arrangement for calmer harmonic relationships…
—New Standard (‘Crafty’)—
• C-G-D-A-E-G •
An ultra-wide system for clarifying your melodic motions…
—One-Tone Drone (‘Ostrich’)—
• D-D-D-D-D-D •
Bury your head in the layered octaves of only a single tone…
—Only Shallow—
• G-G-D-G-B-D •
MBV’s iconic shoegaze drones offer a narrow-centred suspension……
—Pink Moon—
• C-G-C-F-C-E •
Unearthing the ambiguous moods in Nick Drake’s solo songwriting…
—Place to Be—
• C-G-C-F-G-E •
A wide-spread major layout from Nick Drake’s fast-strummed folk…
—Road—
• E-A-D-E-B-E •
Nick Drake’s concise 3str-drop, ideal for multi-rooted fingerpicking sequences…
—Schizophrenia—
• F#-F#-G-G-A-A •
A highly unorthodox tone-trio, designed to disorient the familiar…
—Teardrop—
• D-A-D-A-B-E •
José González acoustifies a heart-beating Bristolian trip-hop anthem…
—Wind of Change—
• D-D-D-A-D-F# •
Low D-drones, pinched from George Harrison by Peter Frampton…
—Yvette’s Dadd9—
• D-A-D-F#-A-E •
An ascent-narrowing interval stack explored by Yvette Young & co…
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