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- From: stefan@ntg.com (Stefan Biskup)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Alternate tunings, what's the point?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.184127.16794@ntg.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:41:27 GMT
- References: <14DEC92.20381800@skyfox> <OLAVT.92Dec15164346@ulrik.uio.no> <1992Dec17.223241.14784@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.223241.14784@athena.mit.edu> juggle@athena.mit.edu (furious axe demon) writes:
- >
- >Forgive my ignorance, but other than playing slide guitar, is there
- >any reason other than basic laziness why one might want to use an
- >alternate tuning other than the standard EADGBe?
- >
- >I would imagine that creative tunings can be used to greatly faciliate
- >fingering some otherwise hard but interesting chords, like ninths, but
- >that can't be all there is to it, is there?
- >
- >
- > Sincerely,
- > Joe G
-
- Well first of all you have to disgard the stupid notion, which regrettably
- can be found all over this group, that to play guitar properly you must
- be a finger gymnast. THAT IS NOT MUSIC THAT IS SHIT!!!!!!! music is about
- making sound and the exressive possibilities that lie within that. forgive
- me Joe Your just the guy who got lucky, idon't mean this as a personal
- flame. but there were some ssnide comments about Sonic Youth Janes Addiction
- and the "alternative/experimental" genere that I passed up before, but
- now I must speak.
-
- The guitar is just a sound maker not a temple so drop the harder is better
- attitude. what counts is the sound and it doesn't matter how you get it.
- waht does matter is where it comes from for the artist.
-
- Tuning is one way to open up the guitar to a wider range of sound making
- possibilities. not a lazy trick. The same goes for effects. All those
- two story racks most super guitar gods use could be viewd as cruches
- or as methods for opening up the noise you make.
-
- I n the end it matters most were your heart is. Actually I have to say that
- for the most part I find a good possitive attitude on this gruop but
- when i see shit like "they ought to learn how to play" I just feel sad.
- sound is so much fun. It's the purest form of abstraction available to use
- and capable of expressing so much more than EADGBe. be a musician not just
- a gutarist with a narrow mind.
-
-
- IMO
-
- Stefan
-