Comments on: Fun with Alternate Tunings http://www.antsonthemelon.com/2006/01/25/135/ Blackstone to Hampden-Sydney to New Orleans to San Antonio to Houston. And Back Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:37:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: spoonix http://www.antsonthemelon.com/2006/01/25/135/comment-page-1/#comment-223 spoonix Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:32:50 +0000 http://ants.wynand.com/2006/01/25/135/#comment-223 What? You mean there's more than just drop D so I can hit major chords by simply barring across the fret? :o The DADGAD stuff is funky, but I think it's common in some of the real blues type music... that song "Hard Time Killing Floor" that was in O Brother Where Art Thou uses it. But I suspect it's not so much about making it easier to hit chords than it is to straighten out the blues boxes (just a theory, though). What? You mean there’s more than just drop D so I can hit major chords by simply barring across the fret? :o

The DADGAD stuff is funky, but I think it’s common in some of the real blues type music… that song “Hard Time Killing Floor” that was in O Brother Where Art Thou uses it. But I suspect it’s not so much about making it easier to hit chords than it is to straighten out the blues boxes (just a theory, though).

]]>