| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Django tunes! | | Date: | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 13:51:12 (-0400) | | From: | Pat Walker <cecilpwv @.....com>
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I play a lot of the Django and swing stuff and I've always just beat it out
in standard GBDGBD. But it is definitely a challenge to incorporate
slant-pulls into the mix, not so much for rhythm comping, but certainly
during solos. I tend toward the horn-like lines as well, but I like to grab
a chord at times during a break, because unlike a horn, I theoretically
should be able to do that with the dobro. Kind of hard though to slant-pull
in the flow of things then get right back to optimal position for single
lines.
I've fooled with GBEGBD and CEGACE, and I've tuned down to AKSlider's
EBDGBD. I am sure they can all get the job done more or less, and with more
options than GBDGBD, but for me, learning a fretboard is a long-term
endeavor, so which one to pick? With my limited Excel powers I've been
trying to program a way to analyze any potential tuning so that I can see
which one offers the most chord possibilities given the limited ways to grab
notes off the fretboard. That is, you can lay the bar straight, slant
forward or backward at a few different angles, and/or pull a string or two.
So what I would like to see is every possible straight/slant/pull
combination at all twelve frets within an octave, with each note collection
expressed as a chord in terms of the same root key. For example, with
a straight bar, open GBD is obviously a G maj triad, but when the straight
bar is placed at the 1st fret, the chord would be expressed in terms of G as
perhaps a Gsusb9b6 (?). Probably useless for most of any of our purposes,
but at the 7th fret, for example, the chord is probably more useful - a
Gmaj9. I presume that there is a 6-string tuning that will render the
greatest proportion of "useful" chords to "less useful", as well as lay out
strings in intervals of 4ths or less (preferably 3rds) to facilitate single
note lines. That for me would be the holy grail of dobro tunings.
On the other hand, I'm really close to just throwing up my hands over all
this and just getting myself a double-barrelled egg slicer.
Pat
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