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D Minor for Dummies?
Just finished 30 days and into my first week of challenges and here I’m dealing with a curious alternate tuning and chord shapes. How does this help me play mainstream songs? What am I missing here? Intermediate player.
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It probably doesn’t help you with main stream songs, but it is fun. I’ve used it to play A Soalin’ in prep for Christmas. Tony throws these alternate tunings in a few times a year and they are appreciated and fun after you’ve been in a while. These tunings also reenforce concepts you pick up in Fretboard Wizard. There is also a whole skills course on Alt Tunings. Don’t let it worry you. Your first week just happens to be a anomaly for a Challenge starting place.
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Thanks for the support and wise comments. Just glad this isn’t a weekly routine! Cheers
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Open tunings are a relatively new thing for me, too. After concentrating on learning songs for my first 3+years of guitar, I’ve recently gotten curious about exploring different aspects of this fascinating instrument – such as blues and slide guitar, which make extensive use of open tunings, it appears. As albertd says, though, this week is only the second time in my 5 months of TAC where Tony has used an open tuning theme. Hang in there!
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Hangin’ in. Thanks for the support and another perspective! Cheers
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Hi @ATTILA , welcome to TAC. I hope you have a fun journey here. As for finding fun with these Daily Challenges in open Dm tuning, I feel your hurt. But if you care to go back to today’s challenge and read the comments, I think you’ll find something fun (at least it was to me) in a link provided by @peter_m . It’s an article from Acoustic Guitar Magazine about blues in open Dm tuning. At the bottom of the article is a tab, and I had fun playing that instead of today’s chord progression. Try it, you may like it (if you still have your guitar tuned to open Dm).
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Thanks. Good thought. I’ll check out the article. I guess someone else actually does play in this tuning! That’s refreshing to know. Cheers.
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I could not find any recent songs in Dminor, but the link has a list of some old ones. A couple have tablature. i want to check out the Nick Drake one.
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