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									What alternate tunings do you use most? - Slide and Alternate tunings				            </title>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I liked double drop d and also the D6 tuning that M. Ward uses (DADF#BE). It&#039;s really gorgeous for fingerstyle.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I liked double drop d and also the D6 tuning that M. Ward uses (DADF#BE). It's really gorgeous for fingerstyle.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>simo</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[open g for blues, open d for major scale stuff]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[open g for blues, open d for major scale stuff]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I love &quot;The Soul Of A Man!&quot; Haven&#039;t tried playing/singing it, though.

Some Google research reveals that Bruce Cockburn used an open-C variant -- CGCGCE -- for his version.  I like that atti...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I love "The Soul Of A Man!" Haven't tried playing/singing it, though.

Some Google research reveals that Bruce Cockburn used an open-C variant -- CGCGCE -- for his version.  I like that attitude.  Tune it to whatever gets the job done, play it in any key that seems right, and don't worry about getting it "just like the record."  And if you get bored, change the tuning and try again.   8)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Crow</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I love &quot;The Soul Of A Man!&quot; Haven&#039;t tried playing/singing it, though.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I love "The Soul Of A Man!" Haven't tried playing/singing it, though.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Ricochet</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Yeah, open D seems to have been Johnson&#039;s &quot;standard&quot; tuning.  Do you know this song?  (And since the thread is about alternate tunings, here&#039;s a version of the tune by Bruce Cockburn, a mast...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yeah, open D seems to have been Johnson's "standard" tuning.  Do you know <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrc2yHuoOe0">this song?</a>  (And since the thread is about alternate tunings, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kBv3twle4&amp;feature=related">here's</a> a version of the tune by Bruce Cockburn, a master of multiple tunings.)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Crow</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Open D&#039;s a good one to be in for Blind Willie Johnson. Right now I&#039;ve got my brass Rogue biscuit in A minor and have been jamming all around on &quot;Summertime.&quot; Got off on &quot;St. James Infirmary&quot;...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Open D's a good one to be in for Blind Willie Johnson. Right now I've got my brass Rogue biscuit in A minor and have been jamming all around on "Summertime." Got off on "St. James Infirmary" for a while, too.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Ricochet</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I hardly even think of C standard (C F Bb Eb G C) as an &quot;alternate&quot; tuning any more, but it&#039;s mostly where I hang out when the spouse &amp; I are working on duets.  It fits our vocal ranges....]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I hardly even think of C standard (C F Bb Eb G C) as an "alternate" tuning any more, but it's mostly where I hang out when the spouse &amp; I are working on duets.  It fits our vocal ranges.  It also sits very elegantly on a 12-string with .012s, as does open C (C G C E G C), my present fave tuning for slide.  (There is something perverse &amp; self-destructive about playing slide on a 12-string.  I'm thinking of starting a 12-string 12-step group....)<br><br>Largely my tuning preferences seem to revolve around whom I'm listening to.  These days my head is full of Blind Wilie Johnson.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Crow</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve mostly used open G - seems to suit my vocal range best. I&#039;ve tried other tunings....open D, DADGAD, even a DADAAD tuning I used for a song I&#039;d written. What I have found over the years ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've mostly used open G - seems to suit my vocal range best. I've tried other tunings....open D, DADGAD, even a DADAAD tuning I used for a song I'd written. What I have found over the years is that playing in open G, I was playing mostly around the 2nd 3rd and 4th strings...so I started fooling around with playing slide in standard tuning, and these days, stick mostly to that. Funny how some things turn full circle, isn't it!<br><br> :D  :D  :D <br><br>Vic]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Vic Lewis VL</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[G is my comfort zone. I think banjo. I think slide. I think Beggar&#039;s Banquet Stones &amp; old blues songs.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[G is my comfort zone. I think banjo. I think slide. I think Beggar's Banquet Stones &amp; old blues songs.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>tinsmith</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: What alternate tunings do you use most?</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I use open G for slide &amp; Stones tunes mostly. Drop D for a couple Zeppelin &amp; Rage Against The Machine songs. DADGAD for Kashmir and some originals. That weird tuning Jimmy Page came ...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I use open G for slide &amp; Stones tunes mostly. <br>Drop D for a couple Zeppelin &amp; Rage Against The Machine songs. <br>DADGAD for Kashmir and some originals. <br>That weird tuning Jimmy Page came up with for The Rain Song.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/">Slide and Alternate tunings</category>                        <dc:creator>Dan T.</dc:creator>
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