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mpi_50
Lokahi
USA
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 Posted - 11/01/2013 : 7:38:24 PM
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For the lack of musical knowledge (Strictly self taught); with a big desire to learn and improve, I would like to do something that is easier than sliding up and down the neck on some songs. I know that there are other tunings that are more conducive to one song and less to another. What is the key to unlocking this mystery?
I play taro patch open g strictly and some songs are really fun to play and sound good while playing. Then there are songs that just don't sound right and consequently I'm playing the higher solos by sliding up and down the neck and it just feels tacky to me. Wassamadda wit dis falla?
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2013 : 07:54:34 AM
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Gary,
Another tuning you can use is the Sevastapol tuning or open D tuning - DADF#AD. Where the primary chords that you have been using in taropatch have been relocated to the middle four strings of the guitar. the fingering for strings 1 and 3, D and F#, are now closed and even positions. This is a very sweet tuning and is easy to play. Also try the Drop C tuning like Fran suggested. It is a very full and simple tuning to use. PM |
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basilking
Lokahi
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Posted - 11/02/2013 : 5:43:23 PM
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| The "key of L" [for Leonard Kwan, of course. & also for Ledward Ka'apana from whom I learned it] is great - taropatch/open G but w/lowest string dropped to C. Ez-pz to transpose between keys of C & G in this config. The other "sweet" tuning that's "intuitive" to me is [as Peter M notes] open D. Taropatch "grips" translate over a string with surprising lack of thought. |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 11/03/2013 : 07:02:26 AM
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| I have also used Taropatch G for playing in C with the low D intact. Some tunes lay better for that. |
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2013 : 10:28:40 AM
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| Hey Kory, Are you and Jack coming back in January? |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
2168 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2013 : 7:03:26 PM
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| Eh, Peter! It's in da works foa January. 2 weeks of winter wit no moa socks! I no sked da rain! Ony get warm kine on Oahu! Spock you bumbye. |
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mpi_50
Lokahi
USA
133 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2013 : 07:55:45 AM
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| Mahalo, going try when I stay day off kine. Getting pumped!! |
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sirduke58
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 11/04/2013 : 3:07:19 PM
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Utlizing different slack key tunings is so awesome. It's almost like you have a totally new instrument. I find that when you move between tunings you gain something and you lose something. For instance: You can manage to play "Punahele in taropatch albeit with a lot of difficulty. Drop your G string 1/2 step & you're in G Wahine & the fingering becomes vastly simplified.
Learning Drop C is probably the most valuable because coupled with taropatch & a capo you can play in any key people play at in a kanikapila......I did a chart here on taropatch.net but I'm such a computer doofus I wouldn't know how to find it. |
Hoof Hearted?...Was it you Stu Pedaso? |
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mpi_50
Lokahi
USA
133 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2013 : 6:31:57 PM
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| Ok, be slow it me, how can lowering one string make it easier to play; especially the lowest tuned string which is rarely used? I tried it one time befo' but den was long time ago, maybe going try again, tomorrow day off. Hey Pete, just visited Jerome he had a stroke but fully recovered. God is good. Bradda Fran going try make like you. No laugh. Serious kine. Mahalo one more time!! Feeling da aloha!! |
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Ben
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 11/06/2013 : 11:51:44 AM
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| Assuming your reference to detuning the bottom string has to do Drop-C, it gives you a good bass C for fuller chords. In the case of Punahele that Duke mentioned, that piece and some others have a lot of F#-to-G hammer-ons, and tuning to G Wahine (a.k.a. double-slack) makes doing that really easy while it's really hard if you're tuned to TP. |
MÄlama pono
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mpi_50
Lokahi
USA
133 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2013 : 8:11:36 PM
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| That's kinda what I'm saying. Taro patch has songs that are meant for that tuning expressly. I want to expand on that, playing the same songs that I play in open g; just in an alternate tuning other than the previously mentioned tuning. A half step is like going from D to C#? Let's take Akaka Falls for example in open G, what would be the best tuning for that piece? It can be done in open G, but it doesn't do justice to such an awesome classic. What tuning would work here? Mahalo and pardon my lolo head! |
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2013 : 4:57:27 PM
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| "Akaka Falls" works well in Taropatch, in G and in C. Noodling is required. You can even figure out passing chords if you want. If you can use your left thumb on the lowest string, there are tunes that can be played in the key of F. Learning to play a variety of vamps is key to playing good back up. |
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Taro patch re-tuning
