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Tunings  Guitar Tech: Sleepy Gonzales EADGBE is called standard tuning. Tunings that contain the 1, 3 & 5 of a chord are called open tunings. Deviations from those are called alternate tunings. The most common alteration to open tunings is to tune the 3rd of the chord to a major 2nd or a perfect 4th and create a suspension chord. This gives you the option of easily playing in either a major or minor key. You can do further alterations to suit the piece you are playing. Here are the tunings Les Finnigan has used so far (listed in alphabetical order) and the titles recorded using them. Medium gauge strings are used for all these tunings. To get a more even string tension and volume, Les substitutes the plain strings, .013 & .017 for ones a gauge heavier, so the gauges are .014, .018, .026, .035, .045 & .056. AEDGBE - Tord and BoboBbEbBbEbBbEb - Portrait, Tug & Boom BbFBbFBbF - Milonga Mystery, Magnetic Properties, Dreaming Arrangements, The Sneaking Sloth, After the Drought CADGBE - I Caught the Key CFCFCF - Okanagan Ashes, Letting Go, The Calling, The Woodcutter CGCGCD - Another Wasted Sunday CGCGCEb - Up All Night, Ralph's Town, Hallow Evening CGCGCE - A Wrong Turn CGDEAD - Remembering, Little One CGDGAD - Spring Ahead, Palo Alto CGDGCD - The Fairlane, Swivelly Chair DADEAD - Waiting For News, Bowl o' Cocobolo DADGAD - Kathleen Marie, Will and Testament, In the Shop, Sunderland, Antique Invention, A One Week Trance DADGAE - April's Fool, Maybe DADGBE - Fret Buzz, Kaleidoscope, Telephone Lullaby, Forgetting To Breathe, Good as New, Dish Mountain DBDF#BD - A Sense of Pillow, Kispiox, Tito Eggy, Alberico, Ann's Dream DGDGAB - September Again, Upstairs DGDGBE - Bouncing Ball DGDGCD - Dancing Around the Topic, The Island EbGDGAB - Don't Leave Me Hanging EADGAB - To the Last Minute EADGAE - That's Not My Kilt EADGBE - A Mind of it's Own, The Swinging Screen Door, Broken, Chunks of Cheese, Listening Train, Finnigan's Jig, Dave's Workshop, What's Your Point? FACFCF - Time Alone FADGBE - Three Perspectives, Delta & Gromit FBbDFBbD - Snowflake Variations, On the First of January, A Few Days Later Home | CDs | DVD | Bio & Photos | Press | Tunings | Gear | Contact | West Coast Guitar Night |
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