Altered Tunings Guides - Unlock the Guitar.
The Alternate Tuning Guide shows you how to slip your guitar into all the popular alternate tunings, shows you how to finger open and bar chords, how to play representative scales, and graphically displays the notes as they appear on the fretboard. The strengths and limitations of each tuning are discussed, helping you to get the most from your musical explorations.
Learning to play guitar in many of these new tunings can be an overwhelming task. If you thought learning guitar was tricky enough in standard tuning, you're in for a REAL challenge! Guitarists will have to completely re-learn how to play chords for each new tuning they undertake. For this reason, many guitarists tend to explore one alternate tuning for an extended period, before they turn.
Within it's chapters, Rikky Rooksby covers the history of altered tunings, basic songwriting, seven classifications of altered tunings, FAQs, and comments from famous songwriters and their use of these tunings for inspiration and creating their unique sound. The appendices include tables of chord notes and transformations, and songwriting tips. The book also includes a 44 track CD with audio.
This is a well made introduction to alternate tunings something to really help you with finger placement on the fretboard of course M. Marc Hanson gives you a lot of references to artist use and songs in which they have been used.I would have liked to have the chord supplement at the end of the book in a much larger format.A complementary book that i have found as usefull in a dictionary form.
The Songwriting Sourcebook shows you how to turn chords into great songs and compliments How to Write Songs on Guitar. How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings is the latest installment from Rikky Rooksby and is the only book that explains how to write songs with altered tunings.
Learn about altered tunings on the guitar and how to use them. Learn some new techniques on your acoustic guitar using 3 simple altered tunings.
The largest database for alternative guitar tunings on the internet. GTDB has been gathering and publishing information, chords, scales, tabs and now videos on different guitar tunings since 2009.