| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Django tunes! | | Date: | Tuesday, April 8, 2008 15:36:12 (-0700) | | From: | Matthew Snook <matt @..........com>
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I love the sound of the big chords! But when I played around with the
twisted tunings, I just got lost whenever improvising a weird solo. Maybe
I'm just impatient anymore. :( I don't want to relearn my scales.
So I'm having Jerry Samples build me an eight string, and it's for this very
reason. :) I discovered that I could have the best of both, or all three,
worlds.
1) I'm used to the square GBDGBD tuning;
2) I like the jazz chords;
3) I like the low C (think 'Cello') of a baritone reso...
So, I came up with a new tuning. DBGDBGEC (12345678). It is square
bluegrass dobro on top, so I don't lose my meager improv abilities. It is a
square C triad on the bottom - so the scale positions are the same - going
all the way down to a low C note. Very growly, even better than D tuning.
Chords? The bottom four strings are a CMAJ7: Maj7 is, like, _the_ jazz
chord! Strings 7 up to 4 give me an Em7. There's probably more in there,
but I only had a short time to work with it (I don't own an eight string) -
just enough time to make me want to do it some more. :) Maj7's, m7's,
minors, dominant 7th's: it's all there.
So, you talked me into it, Eugene. I'll try to play purty tonight at Ten
Depot, and put all my tips toward that eight-string. But I'll be playing
horn melodies.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene [mailto:U14@clcc.org]
Subject: RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Django tunes!
Matt; "Play it like a horn": Very cool! I tend to think in terms of playing
rich chords most of the time instead playing-on or around the melody...
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