Electric and Acoustic guitars of nearly any type, enabling you to set up an alternative tuning which is ready to access whenever you want, you can even change tuning within the same piece. Add instant Drop D tuning or many other variations to greatly expand the musical range of your guitar...
Setting your six-string up like this will add an instant ethereal edge to your playing. Give it a try! “Whether performing in the studio or live on stage, playing acoustic or electric, I need my guitar strings to feel fresh, smooth, fast and stay in tune. Elixir Strings do all that...
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Hi, I have a question regarding tuning but can not find an answer, so I give it a try here… My ukulele is tuned in (the English) A,D,F#,G,B But why do no one tune up the F# into a G, then you will have the same tuning as a guitar except the E-strings. I found this ...
getting worse the further you are from the middle, and more so on smaller instruments with shorter strings. In an acoustic instrument that has been entirely tuned with a simple electronic tuner like the Korg, the top registers will sound flat, and the bottom registers sharp. Similarly, electric...
This Baby Taylor is my travel guitar, and it has been abused like mad. It is a pretty old 301-GB, the top has a vertical crack, and the back was inverted once by an aggressive flight attendant (!). It still sounds beautiful though, and I actually use it relatively often for recordi...
Drop D tuning can open up an entire new sonic soundscape, but do you know how best to practice your shapes and scales in this alternate tuning?On today’s episode of Acoustic Tuesday, you’re going to get a lesson behind the acoustic guitar lick of the week. Every Tuesday, I offer ...
“I”ve always been very gadget-conscious,” Frampton adds. “I made my own electric (guitar) out of an acoustic when I first started to play and realized through my dad that the tube radio in the living room could actually work as amplifier as well as a radio, so that was my amp....
If your trusted tech is willing to tune your piano one last time, you can capture the tuning curve in an ETD and restore it at will. Not a matter of willing to or not, he is unable to. I thought of that too. Sorry to hear that. ...
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