[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > Great details Spraig. Thanks. I was definitely > > >preaching to the choir on classical guitars, you obviously > > >know a lot more about them. I was particularly interested > > >in the detail about Segovia not performing with older guitars. > > > > > Segovia apparently DID play one guitar for 25 years... > > Phew! These spaniards are made of stern stuff. Presumably > takeaways were delivered and used a chemical toilet. > One guitar, not one sitting. OTOH, just before his first public concert in Madrid, he would practice non-stop until he collapsed or his friends smanaged to get him to take a break so he could eat. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister > wrote: > > > > > > > > > (Sorry, I'm not sure about the terminology > > > in English) > > > > > > If I do the basic, 5th (4th) fret E-tuning, by > > > listening to the interference, > > > and then hit some (arpeggio) chord, like E major, > > > the G-string sounds to me to be somehow off. But because > > > I'm rather tone deaf, I'm not sure if that's > > > really the case. What kind of other methods > > > of tuning are there? > > > > > > > There are electronic tuners available but they all have drawbacks, > I suspect. > > > > No guitar is perfect and all guitarists eventually learn to tweak > teh tuning for whatever music > > they are playing. You should have seen Segovia! He would tune the > guitar WHILE playing a > > piece, without missing a note. > > > > I believe Hendrix also needed to tune often during > playing because he used the whammy bar and bending > so forcefully. > It might be that mathematically gifted people, like > yourself, are more into classical music. > About the only piece of classical music that > I like as much as, say, Chicago blues, is Bach's > Toccata and fugue in D-minor, especially played > by Karl Richter, or somesuch. > I dig electric guitar mainly because of all kinds > of effect gadgets one can attach to it, like fuzz boxes > and stuff. > But perhaps I'll give Segovia a try. He might surprise > me. > I'm a classical guitarist, rather than a "musician." I'm lousy with theory, harmony, accompanyment, ensemble, improvisation, etc. For me, classical guitar music is often simpler than other kinds of classical music. Perhaps you'll find Segoiva or some other classical guitarist easier to listen to than some other isntrumentalist or orchestra. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Great details Spraig. Thanks. I was definitely > >preaching to the choir on classical guitars, you obviously > >know a lot more about them. I was particularly interested > >in the detail about Segovia not performing with older guitars. > > > Segovia apparently DID play one guitar for 25 years... Phew! These spaniards are made of stern stuff. Presumably takeaways were delivered and used a chemical toilet. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use an Intellitouch tuner that is clamped to the guitar headstock > and takes the pitch vibration from the neck. Because it does not rely > on the your ability to hear your own string it is very useful for > performance. http://www.tuners.com/pt1.asp Cool! :) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > (Sorry, I'm not sure about the terminology > > in English) > > > > If I do the basic, 5th (4th) fret E-tuning, by > > listening to the interference, > > and then hit some (arpeggio) chord, like E major, > > the G-string sounds to me to be somehow off. But because > > I'm rather tone deaf, I'm not sure if that's > > really the case. What kind of other methods > > of tuning are there? > > > > There are electronic tuners available but they all have drawbacks, I suspect. > > No guitar is perfect and all guitarists eventually learn to tweak teh tuning for whatever music > they are playing. You should have seen Segovia! He would tune the guitar WHILE playing a > piece, without missing a note. > I believe Hendrix also needed to tune often during playing because he used the whammy bar and bending so forcefully. It might be that mathematically gifted people, like yourself, are more into classical music. About the only piece of classical music that I like as much as, say, Chicago blues, is Bach's Toccata and fugue in D-minor, especially played by Karl Richter, or somesuch. I dig electric guitar mainly because of all kinds of effect gadgets one can attach to it, like fuzz boxes and stuff. But perhaps I'll give Segovia a try. He might surprise me. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
As soon as the heat goes one, I've got something like this in my guitars. Mine covers the whole soundhole but I'll check his out. It is really important to preserve a guitar. Thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You guitar players might be interested in one of these: > http://oasishumidifiers.com/ > > This guy is a client of mine. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
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[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
"I almost died from mono when I was 21. I bought a guitar for my 21st birthday and ended up building up my strength by playing it. A Yamaha ?55 I think it was. It kept me sane while I wsa in the USAF." Sounds like you are a real musician at heart Spraig. Interesting stuff about the 10 string guitar. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > > Not in a long time. I still have my guitar and now that I'm settling > > into my new > > place, I may > > just start playing again. > > > > http://www.cathedralguitar.com/Ramirez1984.html (mine is an '83) > > > > > > What an amazing guitar! You are playing a 10 string? I have never > > played one but I can't imagine my short troll fingers could manage the > > wide neck. > > The top 3 strings are sympathetic only. They're always open at least for all the music I've > seen, which is mostly lute transcriptions. It's really a 7-string guitar for fretting purposes. > > > Big Joe Williams used to put 3 more strings on his guitar > > by drilling holes in the headstock. He doubled up some of the lead > > strings to get more volume. I use a high gage high E for the same > > reason. He also used to shoot off a pistol during his show if things > > got too rowdy! A long way from a lute performance. > > > > I hope you get you fingers back on those strings. Playing guitar is > > one of life's deep pleasures isn't it? Vaj would agree. > > I almost died from mono when I was 21. I bought a guitar for my 21st birthday and ended > up building up my strength by playing it. A Yamaha ?55 I think it was. > > It kept me sane while I wsa in the USAF. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not in a long time. I still have my guitar and now that I'm settling > into my new > place, I may > just start playing again. > > http://www.cathedralguitar.com/Ramirez1984.html (mine is an '83) > > > What an amazing guitar! You are playing a 10 string? I have never > played one but I can't imagine my short troll fingers could manage the > wide neck. The top 3 strings are sympathetic only. They're always open at least for all the music I've seen, which is mostly lute transcriptions. It's really a 7-string guitar for fretting purposes. Big Joe Williams used to put 3 more strings on his guitar > by drilling holes in the headstock. He doubled up some of the lead > strings to get more volume. I use a high gage high E for the same > reason. He also used to shoot off a pistol during his show if things > got too rowdy! A long way from a lute performance. > > I hope you get you fingers back on those strings. Playing guitar is > one of life's deep pleasures isn't it? Vaj would agree. I almost died from mono when I was 21. I bought a guitar for my 21st birthday and ended up building up my strength by playing it. A Yamaha ?55 I think it was. It kept me sane while I wsa in the USAF. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
Not in a long time. I still have my guitar and now that I'm settling into my new place, I may just start playing again. http://www.cathedralguitar.com/Ramirez1984.html (mine is an '83) What an amazing guitar! You are playing a 10 string? I have never played one but I can't imagine my short troll fingers could manage the wide neck. Big Joe Williams used to put 3 more strings on his guitar by drilling holes in the headstock. He doubled up some of the lead strings to get more volume. I use a high gage high E for the same reason. He also used to shoot off a pistol during his show if things got too rowdy! A long way from a lute performance. I hope you get you fingers back on those strings. Playing guitar is one of life's deep pleasures isn't it? Vaj would agree. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > > Great details Spraig. Thanks. I was definitely preaching to the > > choir on classical guitars, you obviously know a lot more about them. > > I was particularly interested in the detail about Segovia not > > performing with older guitars. It is very common for folk and blues > > musicians to prefer a guitar's sound after it has settled in for a few > > decades. Of course if it gets too pricey then they start leaving them > > at home! I guess Segovia's guitars really were antiques and not just > > guitars that had aged a bit. > > Segovia apparently DID play one guitar for 25 years, according to a collector's website, so > maybe I'm wrong, or maybe he retired it from concert life and played it at home for a long > time. However, starting in 1961 he used Ramirez guitars and both he and Ramirez said he > got a new one every year. Ramirez said he "traded in his old model"... > > Most of the guys playing the 1930's > > resonator guitars or old Martins spend a great deal of time re-tuning > > the old guitars while they play. Sometimes it gets so distracting > > that I wish they would give up some of the "authenticity" and get a > > guitar with decent tuning pegs! > > > You should watch a lutenist tune. It's a hoot. Even 400 years ago, the reutining done by > lute players was considered a joke. You're right about the gut-string thign. That's why > Segoiva wanted to use nylon strings. That and the fact that they sound dead compared to > good nylon strings. > > I don't know that Segovia was tuning "to the piece" but I've noticed that my own guitar > doesn't sound quite right if I do a low-fret tuning and I'm playing a piece that has a lot of > high-fret action. > > > > > > Great darshon story about his concert. Must have been amazing. I > > didn't realize that you were so into guitars. I misread your > > intentions about Segovia re-tuning while playing because most > > performing artists end up doing this from time to time, myself > > included, and I never seen to get any extra props for it! > > > I've seen plenty of folk/rock guitarists tune while playing, but they weren't playing Bach or > whatever. Segovia would tune during a rest, or a sustained note, while in the middle of a > classical piece. He did it so fast, it looked like he practiced the tuning. May have been a > way of showing off, who knows? > > > Do you play > > classical now? > > Not in a long time. I still have my guitar and now that I'm settling into my new place, I may > just start playing again. > > http://www.cathedralguitar.com/Ramirez1984.html (mine is an '83) > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great details Spraig. Thanks. I was definitely preaching to the > choir on classical guitars, you obviously know a lot more about them. > I was particularly interested in the detail about Segovia not > performing with older guitars. It is very common for folk and blues > musicians to prefer a guitar's sound after it has settled in for a few > decades. Of course if it gets too pricey then they start leaving them > at home! I guess Segovia's guitars really were antiques and not just > guitars that had aged a bit. Segovia apparently DID play one guitar for 25 years, according to a collector's website, so maybe I'm wrong, or maybe he retired it from concert life and played it at home for a long time. However, starting in 1961 he used Ramirez guitars and both he and Ramirez said he got a new one every year. Ramirez said he "traded in his old model"... Most of the guys playing the 1930's > resonator guitars or old Martins spend a great deal of time re-tuning > the old guitars while they play. Sometimes it gets so distracting > that I wish they would give up some of the "authenticity" and get a > guitar with decent tuning pegs! You should watch a lutenist tune. It's a hoot. Even 400 years ago, the reutining done by lute players was considered a joke. You're right about the gut-string thign. That's why Segoiva wanted to use nylon strings. That and the fact that they sound dead compared to good nylon strings. I don't know that Segovia was tuning "to the piece" but I've noticed that my own guitar doesn't sound quite right if I do a low-fret tuning and I'm playing a piece that has a lot of high-fret action. > > Great darshon story about his concert. Must have been amazing. I > didn't realize that you were so into guitars. I misread your > intentions about Segovia re-tuning while playing because most > performing artists end up doing this from time to time, myself > included, and I never seen to get any extra props for it! I've seen plenty of folk/rock guitarists tune while playing, but they weren't playing Bach or whatever. Segovia would tune during a rest, or a sustained note, while in the middle of a classical piece. He did it so fast, it looked like he practiced the tuning. May have been a way of showing off, who knows? Do you play > classical now? Not in a long time. I still have my guitar and now that I'm settling into my new place, I may just start playing again. http://www.cathedralguitar.com/Ramirez1984.html (mine is an '83) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
Great details Spraig. Thanks. I was definitely preaching to the choir on classical guitars, you obviously know a lot more about them. I was particularly interested in the detail about Segovia not performing with older guitars. It is very common for folk and blues musicians to prefer a guitar's sound after it has settled in for a few decades. Of course if it gets too pricey then they start leaving them at home! I guess Segovia's guitars really were antiques and not just guitars that had aged a bit. Most of the guys playing the 1930's resonator guitars or old Martins spend a great deal of time re-tuning the old guitars while they play. Sometimes it gets so distracting that I wish they would give up some of the "authenticity" and get a guitar with decent tuning pegs! Great darshon story about his concert. Must have been amazing. I didn't realize that you were so into guitars. I misread your intentions about Segovia re-tuning while playing because most performing artists end up doing this from time to time, myself included, and I never seen to get any extra props for it! Do you play classical now? Thanks for the new info on an amazing talent, Segovia. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > > > I use an Intellitouch tuner that is clamped to the guitar headstock > > and takes the pitch vibration from the neck. Because it does not rely > > on the your ability to hear your own string it is very useful for > > performance. http://www.tuners.com/pt1.asp If you shop around the Net > > you can get a better price. You need to develop your ear, but you > > also need to get to correct pitch quickly without dealing with all the > > variables that effect your ear's ability to detect pitch if you want > > to perform. Go digital and save yourself a lot of pain. It will also > > improve your sense of pitch to be right one most of the time. > > > > I use a number of different open tunings in my shows as well as > > standard tuning which I tune down a half step. I wasn't sure if your > > question was about tuning the guitar or different tunings. Hope that > > helps. For Spraig, Segovia played gut strings that stretch more than > > steel strings. He also played vintage guitars that are more quirky. > > I think that is why he had to re-tune mid song. > > > > > > Actually, Segovia enjoyed playing his vintage guitars at home, but according to a 1978 > interview, Jose Ramirez sent him new guitars every year starting in the 60's. No-one gives > classical guitar concerts with antiques--guitars are far more delicate than violins and just > don't age well or travel well for that matter. Also, Segovia co-invented the nylon guitar > string with the DuPont family during WWII. > > BTW, the design of the modern classical guitar was geared specifically for Segovia, who > had larger than average hands, especially for a Spaniard. > > Also, regarding the tuning issue. I've played $6000 guitars. Even those are a little quirky. > As I said, for classical music, you need to fine-tune the guitar to the piece you play-- > different sets of open strings and the average position that you fret dictates where you try > to balance the tuning for best results. Segovia would retune on the fly as he performed-- > he may have been tuning to the piece or even to the section of the piece, who knows? His > timing was amazing since he never missed a note while he retuned. The one time I saw > him in concert, I was about 3 feet away from him at a tiny church in England. He passed > within inches of me as he climbed to the stage. I was in the "front row" with my knees > jammed over the edge of the stairs. I had to look under the railing to watch him. 12 > pounds for the ticket. The people in the choir box behind him only paid 2 pounds (his old > friend was pastor of the church apparently and it was a fund-raiser for the church I > believe). It was mind-boggling--I even got to shake his hand afterwards and stammer > "thankyou" a half-dozen times. He looked me in the eye and nodded. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use an Intellitouch tuner that is clamped to the guitar headstock > and takes the pitch vibration from the neck. Because it does not rely > on the your ability to hear your own string it is very useful for > performance. http://www.tuners.com/pt1.asp If you shop around the Net > you can get a better price. You need to develop your ear, but you > also need to get to correct pitch quickly without dealing with all the > variables that effect your ear's ability to detect pitch if you want > to perform. Go digital and save yourself a lot of pain. It will also > improve your sense of pitch to be right one most of the time. > > I use a number of different open tunings in my shows as well as > standard tuning which I tune down a half step. I wasn't sure if your > question was about tuning the guitar or different tunings. Hope that > helps. For Spraig, Segovia played gut strings that stretch more than > steel strings. He also played vintage guitars that are more quirky. > I think that is why he had to re-tune mid song. > > Actually, Segovia enjoyed playing his vintage guitars at home, but according to a 1978 interview, Jose Ramirez sent him new guitars every year starting in the 60's. No-one gives classical guitar concerts with antiques--guitars are far more delicate than violins and just don't age well or travel well for that matter. Also, Segovia co-invented the nylon guitar string with the DuPont family during WWII. BTW, the design of the modern classical guitar was geared specifically for Segovia, who had larger than average hands, especially for a Spaniard. Also, regarding the tuning issue. I've played $6000 guitars. Even those are a little quirky. As I said, for classical music, you need to fine-tune the guitar to the piece you play-- different sets of open strings and the average position that you fret dictates where you try to balance the tuning for best results. Segovia would retune on the fly as he performed-- he may have been tuning to the piece or even to the section of the piece, who knows? His timing was amazing since he never missed a note while he retuned. The one time I saw him in concert, I was about 3 feet away from him at a tiny church in England. He passed within inches of me as he climbed to the stage. I was in the "front row" with my knees jammed over the edge of the stairs. I had to look under the railing to watch him. 12 pounds for the ticket. The people in the choir box behind him only paid 2 pounds (his old friend was pastor of the church apparently and it was a fund-raiser for the church I believe). It was mind-boggling--I even got to shake his hand afterwards and stammer "thankyou" a half-dozen times. He looked me in the eye and nodded. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
I use an Intellitouch tuner that is clamped to the guitar headstock and takes the pitch vibration from the neck. Because it does not rely on the your ability to hear your own string it is very useful for performance. http://www.tuners.com/pt1.asp If you shop around the Net you can get a better price. You need to develop your ear, but you also need to get to correct pitch quickly without dealing with all the variables that effect your ear's ability to detect pitch if you want to perform. Go digital and save yourself a lot of pain. It will also improve your sense of pitch to be right one most of the time. I use a number of different open tunings in my shows as well as standard tuning which I tune down a half step. I wasn't sure if your question was about tuning the guitar or different tunings. Hope that helps. For Spraig, Segovia played gut strings that stretch more than steel strings. He also played vintage guitars that are more quirky. I think that is why he had to re-tune mid song. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (Sorry, I'm not sure about the terminology > in English) > > If I do the basic, 5th (4th) fret E-tuning, by > listening to the interference, > and then hit some (arpeggio) chord, like E major, > the G-string sounds to me to be somehow off. But because > I'm rather tone deaf, I'm not sure if that's > really the case. What kind of other methods > of tuning are there? > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How do you tune your guitar?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (Sorry, I'm not sure about the terminology > in English) > > If I do the basic, 5th (4th) fret E-tuning, by > listening to the interference, > and then hit some (arpeggio) chord, like E major, > the G-string sounds to me to be somehow off. But because > I'm rather tone deaf, I'm not sure if that's > really the case. What kind of other methods > of tuning are there? > There are electronic tuners available but they all have drawbacks, I suspect. No guitar is perfect and all guitarists eventually learn to tweak teh tuning for whatever music they are playing. You should have seen Segovia! He would tune the guitar WHILE playing a piece, without missing a note. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
