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Froderik:

--- Quote from: "seamus" ---Yeah its called open d sometimes too there are variations on that too ,ill look thru my "book o' guitar shit" and post ya up some tunings. I was fuckin around with open a minor for a while too. The "book o guitar shit "is my own notes and stuff I didnt want to lose/forget. Most subjects Im into I make a similar book. I have another book that literally says"Brilliant Fuckin Ideas" on the front so when I have an odd flash of inspiration, I dont lose/forget that.
 Some times open e (ebeg#be) is cool for slide too (harp played, in a, 2nd position) and of course the x(no string)gdgbd
ala Keith Richards thing. I used to do some bizzaro tunings with 12 string too. There used to be a tape (vhs) made by a guy named Adrian Legg, I think it was from homespun. it was called "how to cheat at guitar" dealt with open tunings, modified capos, notthing so much slide oriented, but worthwhile for info purposes. Listen to Chris whitley records too, he did a ton of funky tuned stuff,wrote great lyrics too.
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Yeah i sometimes have written down tunings that i'd come up with, there are a few somewhere in a similar book...and as i recall, one of them was minor..lol. In regard to the EBEG#BE tuning.. I arrived at that one trying to play "Prodigal Son" ..the open EMajor seemed to work. I'm into using a capo, too. Hadn't heard of Chris Whitley.

Froderik:

--- Quote from: "seamus" ---My original forays into open tuning were for two reasons
          (1) lack of ability to play in standard tuning,as I started on a mandolin.
          (2) trying like hell how to figue out how to play something off led zepplin 3,so I coud get into this girl named Sara's pants.
                                        sad.......but true :nods:
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 Did it work?  :D

I got into the tunings out of boredom, I guess. Maybe somebody somewhere along the line had mentioned them to me and I just started screwing around with them a little.. I think everybody who picks up a guitar is bound to try the open D tuning at some time or another...and early on when i was teaching myself how to play stuff by Black Sabbath, there were certain songs where the bottom string was obviously tuned down to C#, so there's that...

seamus:
Yeah ,Between that and some killer buds I had , we left marks in the sand up at dragonfly lake the life guards never could figure out. this was pre str8 too. Damn preachers daughter. :seg:
 Seriously froddy check out a chris whitley song called" poison girl" or "dust radio" I think its something youll "GET" and go "where in the f*ck has this been" He was amazing live, saw him 8 or10 times, got to talk to him a couple times, great guy. He died of cancer at 50 a couple of years ago. When I read it in the paper I  stayed home and drank all day. Fuckin sad.
 I got the Idea that resulted in the "Electric Cowboy Boot" trying to figure out his stuff and sound.

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