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Need help with alternate tuning

  • 06-08-2008 5:31pm
    #1
    Anam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭


    Hey, I'm trying to learn Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez, great song and looks quite easy but I have no idea how to get the tuning right. It's D-A-D-F#-B-E
    with a capo on the 1st.Can anyone help me out here, couldnt find a thing on google.


    I've played in a different tuning before with The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin but I knew how to do this with a tuner, or by ear even but I havent a clue here with this one.What I'd like is to know how to use relative tuning to get here,from standard.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    From standard tuning (EADGBe). Tune the 3rd string down half a step from G to F#. Tune the 6th string down a whole step from E to D. That's pretty much it. :)


  • #3
    Anam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Anam


    Sorry I should have been more specific, I need to know what string and fret to hold to compare to what I need to change.

    Ie for the rain song I hold the 7th fret on the D string to get the G to be what I need it changed to.So how would I go about doing the same thing for this tuning?


  • #4
    Demeyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Demeyes


    To drop to D, the note will be the same as the open D, the 3rd string, as well as the 5th fret of the A string.

    To get the F#. It will be the same as the 4th fret on the D string.


  • #5
    Anam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Anam


    Thanks for the help, think I've got it.

    Quick question though, I'm told the E string is dropping a whole tone,would it be fair to say that if I drop down and hold the 2nd fret on the E string and use a tuner to get it to be E, that it is in fact at the d?To me that is easier than trying to match up the d with the E


  • #6
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Anam wrote: »
    Thanks for the help, think I've got it.

    Quick question though, I'm told the E string is dropping a whole tone,would it be fair to say that if I drop down and hold the 2nd fret on the E string and use a tuner to get it to be E, that it is in fact at the d?To me that is easier than trying to match up the d with the E

    Yes, if you drop it a whole tone and fret at the 2nd fret you will have E again, provided the intonation on your guitar is correct. ;):)


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