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Various sources, ideas, & concepts: historical, experimental, instrument-based, non-melodic, oddball, etc [18 tunings]
Std. | Drop | Open | Interval | Global | Artist | Misc.
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—Alphabet—
• A-B-C-D-E-F •
An Aeolian-toned meta-signifier for the ambiguities of the alphabet…
—Banjo / Overtones—
• G-G-D-G-B-D •
An alternate form of Open G, mirroring the natural harmonic series…
—Cabbage—
• C-A-Bb-A-G-E •
A delicious alphamelodic layout, with chordal crunch and deep-set roots…
—Drop DG—
• D-G-D-G-B-E •
Take the 6+5str down a whole tone, reaching most of an Open G…
—Ead-Gad—
• E-A-D-G-A-D •
Slacken only the highest two to stumble upon fresh harmonic clusters…
—Fuji—
• Bb-G-D-G-G-D •
A mountain-shaped landscape, left undated online by an anonymous creator…
—Icarus—
• D-A-D-G-B-C •
Folksy reconfigurations, coloured by the clash of a high-end minor second…
—Mesopotamian—
• B-A-G-D-A-D •
Captivating for sure, but not actually the tuning of the Tigris River…
—Lefty Flip (‘Mirrored’)—
• E-B-G-D-A-E •
Find new perspectives by flipping round our familiar order…
—Lute (‘Vihuela’)—
• E-A-D-F#-B-E •
Travel back through guitar history by re-shuffling the ‘kink’ of Standard…
—Math Rock F—
• F-A-C-G-C-E •
A gently undulating major voicing made from subtle tension shifts…
—Nashville—
• Ė-Ȧ-Ḋ-Ġ-B-E •
The classic four-string octave-jumper has a storied studio history…
—Overtone Series—
• G-B-D-F-G-A •
Soak up a six-string summary of nature’s fundamental resonance…
—Papa-Papa—
• D-A-D-D-A-D •
Palindromic verticality with a double-drone set right at the heart…
—Square-Neck Dobro—
• G-B-D-G-B-D •
Looping major triads, used on dobros, banjos, and Russian guitars…
—Ten Years—
• D-E-C-A-D-E •
A widened middle between narrow outer jumps, with uneven tensions…
—Zigzag Thirds (Major)—
• F-A-C-E-G-B •
An alternate layout for rationalising the geometry of chords…
—Zigzag Thirds (Minor)—
• F-Ab-C-Eb-G-Bb •
Demystifying the mathematical tomes of Dr. Costas Kyritsis…
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