Alternate Tunings - A Golden Link Workshop
About this event
Registration: $8 Online Only
Players of any level are welcome!
- A brief discussion of why Standard Tuning is the norm.
- Starting from Standard Tuning and developing alternate tunings from there.
- Common and some not so common Alternate Tunings.
- Simple Fingerings to create or imply full chords, complex chord fingerings, a few scales & arpeggios.
- Using things you know in Standard Tuning to inform the learning process in an Alternate Tuning.
- Harmonic content: the “tuning’s voice”
- Notation Methods and keeping track of tunings using TAB, standard notation, and “chicken scratching”.
- Handouts: Tunings list; diagrams; picking patterns and other tricks, lists of songs, players and suggested books.
- Mention of styles and genres where alternate tunings are the rule.
- A song or two to take with you.
Feel free to record, however, please do NOT post online any videos you might make for your own use.
Workshop seats are limited to 10 people so be sure to register (online only) by Sunday, January 11 at midnight. For questions, contact our Education Coordinator.
• This is an alcohol and smoke free event •
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