What kinds of high-wire acts might facilitate brilliant tonal feats in your hands? There’s only one way to find out. Once you’ve got a Nashville-tuned acoustic, creativity is bound to flow and outside-the-box ideas will present themselves. “I actually recorded a track for John Mayall using only the Nashville-tuned Martin because I didn’t want to do the standard blues thing,” he explained. In his September 2018 Frets feature, Alex Lifeson said that he simply removes the wound strings from his Martin 12-string, and that he’ll use it for almost anything. Common logic says that larger guitars don’t provide as much “pop,” and intonation issues may arise, but there are no real rules on the road to Nashville. If you’ve got a travel guitar or a parlor style, give it a go.
Nashville tuning takes that combo to new heights. It was only tuned up a step and a half when I played it, yet the piccolo-like tone achieved via a high-strung small box was stunning. Martin’s Sting Mini size 5 terz guitar prototype is one of the more interesting modern guitars in its museum.
High-strung modal tunings can facilitate fantastic exotic acoustic tones. Furthermore, the acoustic guitar itself can adopt attributes associated with other instruments.Īpplying a capo or utilizing an alternate tuning can help conjure tones more akin to a mandolin, five-string banjo, and even a soprano ukulele in re-entrant tuning (where the strings aren’t in order from lowest to highest pitch, or vice versa).ĭavid Gilmour is said to have applied the latter concept quite literally to a variation of Nashville tuning on the iconic intro to Pink Floyd’s “Hey You” by using a second E string in the sixth slot. A Nashville-style string set is clustered more closely together in pitch than a standard string set, so chord voicings can take on a keyboard-like quality. Tonal SopranosĬhime and clarity with copious amounts of springy string ring are the tonal hallmarks Nashville tuning provides. And while simulating a 12-string may be the primary application, plenty of precious guitar parts have been created and tracked by simply using a single guitar in Nashville tuning. You might ask, “Hey, couldn’t I simply cut a single track on a 12-string”? Well, lucky you if you own a 12-string, but a single track of that is still not as cool.ĭoubling a six-string track in Nashville provides a more severe chorus effect, creates less clutter in the low end, and opens up new panoramic and processing possibilities. Here's my new guitar, which just arrived today:Īnd here's an MP3 of me playing the opening bits of "Natural Science" on said guitar, recorded about 10 minutes ago.Ĭlick here to listen to my attempts at rocking out.The traditional trick is to record a part on a six-string, and then double it in Nashville tuning to simulate a 12-string. OK, just had to show off a bit, though I'm not much of a guitarist. They're not too hard and they sound cool! Especially parts of "The Fountain of Lamneth." (I love playing "Bacchus Plateau.") Sounds great too!Ĭaress of Steel is another great one to learn guitar parts from. Indeed, when music director and DJ Donna Halper and her team dropped the needle on Working Man on Cleveland radio station WMMS, the station’s switchboard was inundated with calls asking if this was a new track by Plant, Page, Jones and Bonham. You can tell just by holding it how much better the quality is. When Rush emerged with their self-titled debut album in 1974, many looked upon them as nothing more than Led Zeppelin (opens in new tab) clones. I didn't get a chance to play the bass much, but I tried the guitar a bit, and other than having to constantly retune (which, so far, I'm attributing to new instrument and new strings), it is SOOOO much nicer than the Squier. * USB turntable (for finally digitizing my LPs!) Since I'm not playing gigs regularly anymore, I decided to sell the Music Man and put that money towards not 1, not 2, but 3 new things! study of science's newest way to eliminate fat and cellulite off your waist, thighs. I'm excited about the guitar right now, because I just got my first semi-decent guitar today! I've been playing a really nice Music Man StingRay bass, but I just had a craptastic Squier Strat in the guitar department. Natural, Gentle, Safe NO Caffeine, Stimulants NO Nervousness or. The Spirit of Radio Freewill Jacobs Ladder. I actually found tabs for "La Villa Strangiato" and tried to learn part of it.
It's amazing how often I'll just be playing random stuff on the guitar, and all of a sudden I'm playing 3 or 4 chords from a Rush song! I'm primarily a bass player, but I noodle around on the guitar some. I don't know about the rest of you, but for me. Once you stumble onto the right barre chord you just need to slide it around and you've got it! I found that one by accident. The opening guitar part of "Natural Science" is pretty easy.
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