CGCGCE - My new favourite open tuning

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Well to cut a long story short, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the past trying out alternative tunings for guitar.

It forces you out of old chord and finger patterns for a start which is a brilliant way of getting out of a rut. Adding a capo also brings in some fabulous sounds along…

I’ve been experimenting with CGCGCE due to the fact that it’s the one used by Dougie McClean on Not lie down which I saw him play live at the Trowbridge Festival this year. I’ll be putting together a bit more info on it next week - some nice chords and picking patterns.

Anyway playing with the tuning got me thinking about how I could use any tuning and learn from it.

I could perhaps try out all my old chord shapes.

I could try out moving them up or down a few frets.

I could try one finger chords by seeing what sounds nice 1-5th fret on each string (there are a few goodies with this tuning - no wonder it’s loved by folk players)

I could perhaps even try out scale patterns and arps to get a new phrase

Basically anything that breaks me out of a stuck state and gives new inspiration.

So I’ve spent the last week or so noodling around with the acoustic tuned to this and the capo going up between 3rd and 7th frets depending on my mood that day, and I’ve realised I love this one. Originally I only used drop D or drop G but this has opened up a whole new set of sounds and possible tunes. Why don’t you do a search yourself for open tunings and try a few out for a week or so?

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