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Jimmy the Squid:

--- Quote from: jeph on 06 Nov 2006, 07:15 ---I don't think drop-D is really any "easier." The only things it really makes any simpler than standard tuning are low 5th chords, sus-chords, and drone melodies in D. And if you can't finger a standard barre chord easily in STANDARD, I posit that you have plenty of practicing to do REGARDLESS of what tuning you prefer.

What it DOES give you is a slightly wider tonal reach and access to some neat new chords. My favorite drop-d fingering of all time is:


--- Code: -------4----
----5----
----6----
----7----
----4----
----4----

--- End code ---

It's basically impossible to finger that chord in standard, and it sounds REALLY cool. Slide that fingering up and down the fretboard and you'll find lots of neat progressions in a hurry. I use it in practically every song I've ever written.



--- End quote ---

Umm if it's impossible to do that fingering in standard doesn't that mean that Drop-D makes it easier?

timehat:

--- Quote from: Mikendher on 06 Nov 2006, 09:19 ---a major seventh kind of, I'll have to try it :-)

A#maj7 with F# in the bass, interesting...

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Actually, I think the chord could be more properly called an F#min9, and the maj7 chord embedded in it is not A# but regular old A.

Thrillho:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 06 Nov 2006, 09:30 ---Actually it is just a regular Amaj7 with said F# in the bass.

I came up with a neat chord progression for acoustic guitar. Capo 5:


--- Code: -----2--0--0--
--2--3--3--
--2--0--0--
--0--2--0--
--x--2--2--
--x--0--3--

--- End code ---

Simple but effective. Play it kinda tropically and see how it sounds! FUN.

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I'm the only person I know who uses a capo to make my guitar sound pretty rather than to knock a song up for my voice. I mean, I do both, but most of my songs start out with me whipping out the capo because it makes the guitar sound more chiming and bright.

timehat:

--- Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 06 Nov 2006, 18:01 ---Umm if it's impossible to do that fingering in standard doesn't that mean that Drop-D makes it easier?

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For that example, yes, but in general, no. He's just saying that it gives you different possibilities. For example, in standard tuning, you can play this maj7 chord shape:

-x-
-x-
-3-
-4-
-6-
-7-

But in drop D, it would look like this:

-x-
-x-
-3-
-4-
-6-
-9-

Ouch, someone call Allan Holdsworth!

Thrillho:
Alternate tunings make some things easier and some things harder. That chord is much easier to do in Drop D, but good luck getting a comfortable fingering for a bog-standard open G.

They're not 'easier' tunings. Just different. Saying drop D is a shit tuning is like saying anything except E-standard is a shit tuning, including other standards like C-standard or D-standard.

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