I found your site,
quite by accident, and am glad to have found it.
Very informative and helpful. Thought I would throw out
another tip on the
Nashville tuning. After many years of playing by myself and
with others I became
increasingly tired of re-tuning my main guitar constantly to play
different
songs. I use the Nashville tuning a lot with the groups I
have been in so instead of
trying to re-tune and buy massive amounts of single strings I broke
down, went to the local
pawn shop, and purchased two inexpensive but workable
6-strings. When I replaced the strings, I
went ahead and bought a full 12 sting set and put the lower set on one
guitar, which I use for my
alternate tuning and the high set I put on the other one as my
Nashville tuned guitar.
Yes I know now I have to carry three guitars with me to a gig or to
rehearsal but just the lack of
frustration at not having to retune one guitar over and over has saved
my sanity
and surprisingly I found two old Alvarezes that together were less than
125.00
not to mention that my favorite guitar stays tuned to normal tuning all
the time. so it worked out well.
Thanks for the space,
DONATED BY: Rick Moncrief
Yes, this is a good idea if you can afford it. If you are
just adjusting
regular tuning to Drop D or something, it's kind of cool to do it in
front of
the audience but no one wants to wait for you to tweak for a long time
for
multiple strings.
Have you ever noticed when you go to a concert someone runs out and
hands maybe
the lead guy a different guitar for different songs? That's
usually the
reason except for changing from style like from acoustic to
electric. If
he's going from acoustic to acoustic, it's probably for an instant
tuning
change.
It also saves on changing strings all the time. I have one
guitar (my
clunker) there for practice with old strings, and several other guitars
all
different for different uses. One is converted to a Baritone,
one is tuned
up to pitch to give lessons on, one is maybe tuned to a the weird
tuning of the
newest song I'll be performing next week, etc. Why wear out
new strings
for practice? Save them for the performance.
Bob, Gman ( o )==#