During your studies of the guitar, you have probably heard of “Alternative ” or “Open” tunings. In this article I will demonstrate to you something more to this “alternative” world. This demonstration is a creative way to discover new possibilities on the instrument and the sounds that someone can create. Every time we change tunings, we have a new world to discover. All the guitars in the world start by being tuned in standard tuning (EADGBE) making it the most common of all tunings. Every variation of this tuning is an alternative tuning. One of the easier alternative tunings is Drop D (DADGBE) in which the lowest string is tuned down (“dropped”) a whole step from E to D. With this tuning
Playing jazz music with nothing but a guitar might seem like it is out of reach, but I am here to tell you, that is not the case at all. I know that in the beginning I was intimidated by all of the information I was being asked to absorb. Eventually, however, I learned that by establishing strong fundamentals and a good understanding of the basics, the more complicated stuff really was not all that complicated. For this lesson, it is necessary for you to have a relatively good understanding of the fretboard. If that is not the case for you, I would recommend digging into that a bit more before moving onto something like this. Here, I will be providing some basic 7th chords for you as well as
