Hi everyone.
For the past year or so I've been tuned to Perfect 4ths (P4) as an experiment.
I love the intuitiveness of this tuning - learning lines is much easier as the fingerings are always the same so you can move them to other keys or other registers/string sets etc with no issues.
I love being able to play shapes and patterns all the way up the fingerboard with no need to change the shape as I cross strings and take the lick up or down an octave.
However, I miss being able to play nice chord voicings, and I miss the little guitar 'cliches' that make our instrument so awesome that are hard/impossible to do in P4 tuning.
P4 is amazing for single note playing, and it does make things simpler in a lot of ways.
I think the 'quirks' of standard tuning, that make you have to change shape (to play the same information) actually make the guitar more interesting to play, and open up more musical options - especially from a harmonic perspective.
It's a dilemma because I love shredding in P4, but prefer the musicality of Standard.
Anyone else got experience of this, want to chip in, pearls of wisdom etc please?
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Tried it on my acoustic for a while after listening to some Mateus Asato - don't think I could stick with it though
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I can play in standard tuning, but I usually prefer P4, but P4's not good for Chuck Berry type Rock'n'Roll riffs and open chords.
I posted a thread on this forum in 2014:http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/211623/#Comment_211623
im just curious really cos i have tried ot and that's what i found...I'm wondering if i should have stuck with it a while longer..
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