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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
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Posts: 8,387
02/22/2008 3:27 pm
Originally Posted by: BrokenJerayeah i understand that.[/quote]
OK, good deal. :) Thanks for clarifying.
Originally Posted by: BrokenJera...i only meant the patterns look like those chords and not they make moving those chord shapes across the strings the 100% fool proof cheat sheet.

I know a couple of guitarists that tune their guitar in 4ths all the way across (low to high - EADGCF). One of them I think uses a low B string (low to high - BEADGC). Stanely Jorden used to do this, too. I don't know if he still does or not.

Using that alternate tuning results in inversion shapes being exactly the same across the strings (as well as the up and down the strings). So, it is an interesting option to consider. I did it as an experiment many years ago and found it interesting for a while. But ultimately it was more trouble than it was worth to me, personally. This was of course because by time I tried tuning in 4th I had already automatized the standard tuning fretboard patterns.
[QUOTE=BrokenJera]but im still learning and i hope i can always say that i am.

Absolutely. Me, too.
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