A Closer Look at Altered Tunings

Genre and Style Guitar Course from Trevor Gordon Hall

Changing our guitar from standard tuning to an altered tuning can open a world of new sounds and possibilities on our instrument. It can also be difficult to feel confident knowing where to start and how to find your way around the new soundscapes that altered tunings provide. In this course, Trevor will demonstrate and explain how we can approach each altered tuning in order to get our bearings quickly and confidently, as well as the techniques that can be used to make the most out of each tuning we encounter.

16 Lessons

Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.

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Full Course Breakdown

Trevor will guide us through five of his favorite altered tunings. He will explain the best way to get into these tunings, show us how to play chord shapes that are unique to each tuning, and teach us how to play an etude in each tuning. This will help us understand how to navigate these tunings, as well as other altered tunings that we may come across.

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Introduction

Trevor starts by giving us a brief description of what we can expect to gain from the following lessons

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DADFAD - Getting Into the Tuning

In this next lesson, Trevor will show us how to go from standard tuning to this DADFAD tuning and give us some tips on how to keep the tuning stable

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DADFAD - Basic Chords

We will be learning a few major and minor chord shapes for the DADFAD tuning in this lesson

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DADFAD - Etude

Now that we have a few chords under our fingers, we will use them to learn how to play the first etude in this course

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DABF#AC# - Getting into the Tuning

For our second altered tuning, we will learn about the DABF#AC# tuning and how to get there from standard tuning

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DABF#AC# - Basic Chords

After we have gotten tuned up we will take a look at some common chord structures in this new tuning

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DABF#AC# - Etude

Since we now know a little bit about navigating this tuning, lets take what we know to learn the second etude of the course

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FACGAE - Getting into the Tuning

The third alternate tuning that we will look at in this course, FACGAE, will be the first one that raises the pitch of one of the strings and we will learn more about it in this lesson

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FACGAE - Basic Chords

Let's familiarize ourselves with this new tuning by learning a few common major and minor chord shapes that are available to us

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FACGAE - Etude

Trevor demonstrates the third etude in this course and then breaks down each measure for us in this lesson

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EG#D#F#BD# - Getting Into the Tuning

For our next altered tuning, we will be looking at EG#D#F#BD# and Trevor will teach us how to get to this tuning in this lesson

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EG#D#F#BD# - Basic Chords

It's time for us to look at some commonly used major and minor chord structures that can be explored in this tuning in this next lesson

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EG#D#F#BD# - Etude

In this lesson, Trevor shows us how to play the fourth etude in the course and explains the best way to play it fluidly

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CFCGAE - Getting into the Tuning

For our last tuning, Trevor will show us how to get from standard tuning to CFCGAE tuning in this lesson

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CFCGAE - Basic Chords

Now we will learn a few different major and minor chords that can be used in this tuning in this lesson

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CFCGAE - Etude

To close out this series, Trevor demonstrates the last etude in the course and provides us with a thorough measure by measure breakdown

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