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as for mixing the 2, well, lots of people change tunings for different songs etc, so i'm sure its possible.
although maybe the different tunings relates more to playing chords for different songs/songwriting, as i cant imagine its going to be possible to have a whole fretboard mapped out in your mind for different tunings.
if you are playing covers then i'm sure its easy enough to just have all the shapes and note positions memorised, so that you could easily play them in standard tuning, and theory or knowing what you are playing wouldnt really matter, because you are just going by memorised shapes.
and maybe with some basic improv around simple shapes like 1st position pentatonic etc.
and then you could use the 4ths tuning to explore the fretboard clearly, and the scale/chords connections.
i think its great for jazz/metal/prog/folk if you are playing original music and/or are happy to rearrange any covers
personally, the attraction of 4th tunings for me is its simplicity - simple scales, simple chords, always the same with no fretboard kink between the G and B/C.
so for me, i dont mess with different tunings as it upsets my equilibrium and confuses me
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I use different tunings on some guitars for several reasons:
To enable voicings, e.g. modal stuff like DADGAD,
To confuse me into not playing the same old stuff
to suit the instrument (e.g. A# F C G on my tenor, with lighter unwound strings - no longer sounds shrill - but still the same intervals)
My 8 string was tuned GBEADGBE, since I didn't plan to do power chords on the bottom 3 strings, duplicating the relationship between the top 3 seemed useful - easier to find patterns. Now it is tuned GADADGAD, works well for me