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The major chord across the second, third and fourth strings is kinda the core to guitar fingering, but if that's the tuning you need, the open Bb the song needs, there you go. … I could see that being some fingerstyle player's fave tuning, but I don't get it. Best of luck. …

I've seen that Bill Monroe used a tuning in his mandolin for "Get Up John", where the low G strings are split between F# and A and the high E strings are split to A and D. … With the "Get Up John" tuning, I believe that the melody playing was on the D and A strings, but the others were meant to drone as a D major chord. …

Part of it is that there is more wiggle room allowed in the tuning of a perfect fourth or fifth than there is for a major third. The system uses this wiggle to get more in tune. …

This seems to be highly connected to what you want to do with it. Harp guitars have many bass strings, where you hold down the low end with big bass strings but the melody occurs on the high strings …

There are videos online which detail this, but the key is, the longer the reed, the deeper the note. Problem is, of course, that it is easy to sharpen a note and hard to make it flatter. And yes, you …

I can have other people give me a reference note and go from there, but I far prefer to use an tuner. They come on phones now. They come as HTML5 web apps now. They come as pedals now. And, of course, …

The low 4 blow notes give you the I chord: 1, 3, 5, 1. The low 4 draw notes give you the V chord: 5, 1, 3, 5. Putting in the 4 would give you a rootless dominant 7.

If it's playing the E that it says it is, and the A on the fifth fret is the same A as the open A, it's in tune. If it's too floppy for you, and you can hear string buzz, then you can either adjust th …

Different playing styles require different string tensions. Styles that require more bending would be lighter, while rhythm and slide playing would tend heavier. There's a rough center around 10-46 fo …

There's a lot to playing slide that becomes much easier when you tune to an open tuning, especially when you're playing and accompanying yourself. … However, a triad (root, third and fifth) comes for free on the second, third and fourth strings of a guitar in standard tuning, making it easy to jump between bottleneck and standard playing. …

I don't know how much pressure is getting what response, but pushing and pulling the neck to get whammy bar effects on hardtail instruments is a common thing. I mean, pulling would tend to just get fr …

But, it seems like going to an Open D or Open G Vastapol or Spanish tuning would be a step backwards, toward tunings with all roots, thirds and fifths. … if he didn't have the other strings, so his preferred tuning isn't useful. …

To answer the question in the title: Yes, somewhat. The truss rod wants to pull back. The strings want to pull forward. But the changes should be slight. But the answer in the question text: Different …

It is less that you would have to relearn the guitar with a BDDDDD tuning than wouldn't have to learn a lot of what guitar players learn about where notes are and where chords are. … You can also get custom strings that are perfect for this tuning. I'm skimming the tab and I'm seeing a lot of open strings, so ringing open D notes reverberating and padding the music. …

Change the strings if they're old because they're stretched out and can't keep tune and intonation, sure, but also be aware that string gauge and intonation are tied. If you're sharp, go heavy. If you …