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I really am enjoying the modern take on slide guitar! These examples (I hope) are signs of things to come!!
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Hi there! Hello. Anybody here? When you all see this would one of you email me some Justin stuff so I can get back to the list of open tunings, and get more involved in spreading the word, and learn more too! Have a good gig, thank ya kindly!
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Love your playing.
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Hi Justin. Looking into buying strings for CBGs for my grandsons and my builds. In following your suggestion to tune to 3-string open-G tuning, I wondered about which registery:
LMM – Low G, Middle D, Middle GLMH – Low G, Middle D, High G – Recommended!
LHH – Low G, High D, High
GMHH – Middle G, High D, High G
Since our builds are using a piezo in the bridge, I wonder whether you have an opinion concerning a tone circuit. This area seems to be subjective. Some opinions suggest it piezo p’up won’t benefit from tone control.
I was advised to use acoustic bronze strings for the piezo bridge since our builds are essentially acoustic. Given the possibility for a p’up upgrade down the road, can I assume that steal strings would make learning more challenging, that light or medium acoustic string would be better for younger hands.
Finally, regardless of any tone circuit, can our builds benefit from a cap and resistor circuit to minimize treble bleed at lower volumes?
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Hey,
For the Open G Tuning that I generally use, I use the A,D, & G strings from a 6-string pack, and tune the A string down to a G. I usually use magnetic pickups, since the tone is much more consistent, full-bodied and reliable at high volumes. Since I use magnetic pickups, I string my guitars up with nickel round-wound electric guitar strings… medium gauge for fretted guitars, and heavy gauge for slide guitars.
I do have several guitars that have piezo pickups, however, and I generally string those up with phosphor bronze acoustic guitar strings. Generally I will use light-gauge strings on cigar box guitars, so that I’m not putting too much stress on the internal bracing. The acoustic guitar strings are generally heavier and harder for beginners to play (push down against the frets) compared to electric guitar strings. If you want to make your guitars easier for beginners to fret, then you should use electric strings, even if the guitar is equipped with a piezo pickup.
If you want the best tone out of a piezo pickup, the most significant thing you can do is to install a pre-amp or “buffer” to the guitar. This will fix the impedance mismatch between the amp and the pickup, which is what causes the thin, tinny, tone that you normally get from a piezo plugged straight into an amp.
Hope this points you in the right direction!
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Hi, Justin. Just came across a YouTube video on microtonal guitars and why they exist. Some comments included well-tempered tunings, equal tunings, micro tuning and many other thoughts within music theory and the like. Apparently these question have consumed many theroists attempting to find answers to intonation problems.
So I wonder whether this explains why tuning to an Android app leaves my open strings, when played all at once sounding so odd or not in tune with each other?
Do you have an opinion on this and other tuning methods?
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Thank you for that awesomeness
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