MEMPELAJARI ALTERNATE TUNINGS

Heyho let's go !!

Whaazzuupp dudes!

Yuup!! yupp !! mari kita lanjutkan obrolan kita tentang gitar elektrik.

Pada dasarnya, sebuah gitar baru akan bisa dimainkan apabila terdapat 6 senar(standar), dan senar2 tersebut tentu pastinye dalam keadaan stem (in tune). ya thoo?? Hehehe,,,tapi seiring berkembangnya jaman dan teknologi, serta berkembangnya aliran2 musik, serta proses recordingnya, semakin banyak gitaris2 yang menggunakan steman/ tuning gitar yang 'tidak biasa' atau bahasa kerennya adalah ALTERNATE TUNINGS. 

standard tuning

Tuning standar pada sebuah gitar akustik/elektrik adalah :  

E  A  D  G  B  E

Pasti udah pada ngerti kan?? Nahh,, tapi kebanyakan gitaris jaman sekarang, yang didominasi oleh gitaris rock modern, mereka menginginkan sound gitar yang LOW, DEEP dan FAT. Hmmm,,,Ini membuat mereka mengupayakan berbagai cara. Ada yang akhirnya make gitar yang bersenar 7, atau tetap menggunakan gitar biasa (senar 6) tapi menggunakan tuning yang nyeleneh2/alternate tunings. Kebanyakan dari mereka akhirnya menggunakan tuning DROP D. Mantaaap !!

Tapi tahukah kamu, kalo ternyata diluar sana banyak sekali ALTERNATE TUNINGS  yang bisa kamu gunakan / kamu pelajari untuk membuat sound gitar kamu lebih variatif. Ini dia diantaranya!

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Open Tunings

In the open tunings, the six strings are tuned to form a simple chord. This makes it easy to play unusual chordal combinations and interesting tonal clusters by utilizing "drone" and "sustained" strings. Bottleneck slide and harmonics are wonderful in open tunings, because you can play full six string chords. And you can play bar chords with only one finger!

Open C	C G C G C E
Open D	D A D F# A D
Modal D	D A D G A D
Open D Minor	D A D F A D
Open G	D G D G B D
Modal G	D G D G C D
Open G Minor	D G D G A# D
Open A	E A C# E A E

Instrumental Tunings

The instrumental tunings are based on the tunings of modern and historical instruments such as the mandolin (augmented for six string play), the charango, the cittern, the oud, and numerous others. Players of these instruments may find the tuning and chord charts useful, but guitarists will find some truly wonderful "alternate" ways to tune.

Balalaika	E A D E E A
Charango	X G C E A E
Cittern (1)	C F C G C D
Cittern (2)	C G C G C G
Dobro	G B D G B D
Lefty	E B G D A E
Overtone	C E G A# C D
Pentatonic	A C D E G A

Regular Tunings

In the regular tunings, the strings are tuned uniformly up the fretboard. This allows chord forms to be moved up and down the fretboard like a normal bar chord, and also sideways across the fretboard. Learn a handful of chord forms in a regular tuning, and you'll know hundreds of chords! Ole Kirkeby is very enthusiastic about the major third tuning, and Ralph Patt's jazz web page has a great collection of tuning charts for it.

Minor Third	C D# F# A C D#
Major Third	C E G# C E G#
All Fourths	E A D G C F
Aug Fourths	C F# C F# C F#
Mandoguitar	C G D A E B
Minor Sixth	C G# E C G# E
Major Sixth	C A F# D# C A

Special Tunings

The special tunings are a miscellaneous collection of tunings most of which were created and/or popularized in recent years by various singers and songwriters.

Admiral	C G D G B C
Buzzard	C F C G A# F
Drop D	D A D G B E
Face	C G D G A D
Four & Twenty	D A D D A D
Hot Type	A B E F# A D
Layover	D A C G C E
Magic Farmer	C F C G A E
Pelican	D A D E A D
Processional	D G D F A A#
Slow Motion	D G D F C D
Spirit	C# A C# G# A E
Tarboulton	C A# C F A# F
Toulouse	E C D F A D
Triqueen	D G D F# A B