Weissman Guitar Tunings

A Comprehensive Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-48375-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weissman, Dick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Gitarre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preliminary table of Contents:

Introduction
The Perils of Standard Tuning
Open Tunings or "Slack Key" Guitar
Tablature vs. Music Notation
Modified Capos
Nashville "High Strung" Guitar
Twelve String Guitar
Partial Chords with Open Strings
Other Resources
1 Retuning the 6th String to a D
Using Different Chord Formations
"Windy Blues"
"Up the Neck"
Double Dropped D Tuning
"D Demon"
2 G Family Tunings
Partial Chord Fingerings in Open Tunings
Slide Guitar
"Slidin'"
"Slidin' #2"
"Movin' Fast"
"Roamin'"
"Blues without Words"
"Lonesome Blues"
"Lonesome Blues #2"
"The Parlor Pedal Point Waltz"
G Minor Tuning
"Minor Claw"
"Darker Than Ever"
DGDGAD Tuning
"Across the Mountains"
GDGFCD (Mountain minor)
"The Cuckoo"
3 D Family Tunings
"Dreaming"
"Dreaming," expanded solo
"D Blues"
"Ridge Runner Blues"
"Musing"
"Dulcitar"
"Good King Wenceslas"
"In the Parlor"
"D Blues"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
D major 7 tuning
"Up The River"
"Uncertainty"
D minor tuning
"Minor Moan"
"Calling the Children Home"
D major 7 tining
DADGAD
"Irnament"
"Dulcidad"
"Oud Food"
"Blue Gad"
"Plucky Pierre"
3 C Family Tunings
"Impressions"
"Walkin'"
"C to Shining Sea Blues"
Open C minor tuning
"Too Much Suffering"
"Shifting Gears"
Other C Family Tunings
"Marble Stairs"
C9 Tuning
"Ren Burned"
"Banjo-It Is"
C major 9 tuning
Quadruple C tuning
"West of East"
4 Other Tunings
Open A Tuning
"John Henry's Train Tune"
"Carl's Carousel"
Fourths Tuning
"Beijing Nights"
"Devilish Dance"
Lute Tuning
"John's Lute Fisk"
Duplicate Tunings
"Turning Still"
Nashville High String Tuning
"Country Fried"
"Leadbelly's Music Box"
Twelve string guitar tunings
"12 X 5 Version 1"
"12 X 5 Version 2"
"Openings"
"White Men At Eagle Pass"
5 Standard Tuning Tricks
Using Capos
Partial capos
Using the Partial Capo
"Partial Fulfillment"
"Country Rhodes"
"Nine Frets High"
Open String Chords in Standard Tuning
"Many Crossings"
"Opening The E Blues"
Appendix A Off the Wall Tunings: A Brief Inventory
Appendix B Chord Charts
Open G
Open D
DADGAD
Open C
E Tuning
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Dick Weissman has recorded three guitar instruction albums for Music Minus One, has played on dozens of recording sessions, written instructional books for Mel Bay and Alfred Music, and currently performs in a duo with classical guitarist David Crabtree.