![]() ![]() please feel free to ignore this post ) JBass likes this. However, as a method for making the guitar more logical this is hard to beat! In this tutorial I'll take you through the advantages and disadvantages and get you started on working out shapes in this tuning. It is tuned in tempered fourths which are subtly different from perfect fourths (a perfect fourth is 498 cents, compared with 500 cents for a tempered fourth, IIRC). Instead, the highest string can be tuned to E two octaves above the lowest: EADGCE. That’s pretty cool, except now barre chords don’t work as well because there are so many different notes. There are some downsides though and I'll go through those later in the tutorial. Starting on the low E string, a series of fourths would be: EADGCF. Now the guitar becomes much more symmetrical and all chords, arpeggios and scales are the same shape no matter what octave or position or string set your playing them in. This is true for scales, arpeggios and chords and is due to this major 3rd interval between the G and B strings.Īs an improvising musician it was important to me that the guitar was as easy to visualise as possible so that I didn't have to go through too many thought processes before getting access to the actual music! In order to achieve this I decided to tune the guitar in all 4ths giving me the notes, Normally we tune the guitar in what we call standard tuning. Handy!! This we cannot do on the guitar as all our chords change shape depending on what octave (in other words, string set) they're in. Lesson Library Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on tuning in 4ths. To be exact, from low to high, standard guitar tuning is EADGBEthree intervals of a fourth (low E to A, A to D and D to G), followed by a major third (G to B), followed by one more fourth (B to the high E). If you were to play a C major chord in the lowest octave of a keyboard it looks exactly the same no matter which octave you transpose it into. Guitars, however, are typically tuned in a series of ascending perfect fourths and a single major third. Now this becomes a problem when looking at symmetry on the neck. The interval between each of our first 4 strings is that of a perfect 4th, however, between the G and B strings we have the interval of a major 3rd and then back to a perfect 4th between the B and E strings. If we look at the notes and the distance between them we come to an interesting conclusion. However, there is a problem with this scale. This system of tuning is great as it allows us to play a great variety of fantastic material and works exceptionally well for playing chords and scales. In other words out strings are tuned to the following notes, ![]() Now, jazz players are kind of a minority when it comes to guitarists, so.all fourths, while useful, remains a jazz only thing. ![]() Hi there guys and welcome to this tutorial on tuning in 4ths. The main reason the all fourths tuning hasnt caught on is because, as was said earlier, it makes it nearly impossible to play six-string voicings of any given chord. ![]()
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