nifty little alternate tuning for you cats to try on yer git-fiddles

[MetalMike_II]

think it's called "open A#" or something, maybe just "A#"

e -> f
B -> C
G -> F
D -> D
A -> A#
E -> F

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: nifty little alternate tuning for you cats to try on yer git-fiddles

think it's called "open A#" or something, maybe just "A#"

e -> f
B -> C
G -> F
D -> D
A -> A#
E -> F

1, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16

It's essentially F6sus4.

 

[MetalMike_II]

Re: nifty little alternate tuning for you cats to try on yer git-fiddles

1, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16

It's essentially F6sus4.

oh, cool

Steve Miller says it was used by the guy in his band who played the Jungle Love riff, an all-time favorite of mine.

I found accurate tab (a rarity!) for Jungle Love once, and it said "A# tuning" with that tuning.

Made sense to me, the 4th (A#) being the implied chord pitch, and with its major third added (D), we have a form of A# major spelled on the top 4 strings, right? But I don't really know, and I never knew what "sus"pended meant musically

I transposed that song to standard tuning, and it is one hard sumb!tch to play that way

I really should take a lesson or a class....I guess I don't want to buck a 25-year trend of no lessons--or else I'd rather remain blissfully ignorant

so what does "sus" mean?

 

[cream123]

Re: nifty little alternate tuning for you cats to try on yer git-fiddles

it means suspended....raised up. so if you have a sus4...it means that it doesn't have a 3rd but it was raised up to a 4th. if it was add4, you would still have the third