A rant about guitar

Daktari · 04-29-2010, 08:24 AM

Hi there,

Seems that most of you guys are into playing more rock type stuff but here's an unusual tuning option that I have set up on my Patrick Eggle New York guitar.

I play a lot of Zimbabwe 'Tuku' style and soukous stuff. A trick here that can be used is to replace the D string with an extra top E string. This is then tuned to D but one octave higher than the regular D string.

Now, when playing in this African style, it throws in an extra high note when you wouldn't normally get one. It gives the illusion of some very tricky playing when really, it's a little cheat.Takes some getting used to, the knack is to not play around it but try to play what would normally be played and let it sound 'odd'. That would be the whole idea of doing this. Kind of fits in nicely with the high to low backward style bass lines that are used a lot in this music.

Gordon.

04-29-2010, 08:24 AM	#17 (permalink)
Daktari Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Originally from Lancashire, England, lived near Largs, Scotland and now live in Rocky Face, Georgia Posts: 154	Hi there, Seems that most of you guys are into playing more rock type stuff but here's an unusual tuning option that I have set up on my Patrick Eggle New York guitar. I play a lot of Zimbabwe 'Tuku' style and soukous stuff. A trick here that can be used is to replace the D string with an extra top E string. This is then tuned to D but one octave higher than the regular D string. Now, when playing in this African style, it throws in an extra high note when you wouldn't normally get one. It gives the illusion of some very tricky playing when really, it's a little cheat.Takes some getting used to, the knack is to not play around it but try to play what would normally be played and let it sound 'odd'. That would be the whole idea of doing this. Kind of fits in nicely with the high to low backward style bass lines that are used a lot in this music. Gordon.