[musictlk] Drop-C Tuning?

[Timothy Clark Music]

personally i play in drop c and the way i do it is to tune the entire instrument down. 
 
 so, think of your regular standard tuning now dropped down to a drop c. 
 that’s how i play my electric and acoustic. 
 my other guitar only has 5 strings as i’m to busy to put new ones on it. 
 
 i’m studying for a vary important exam. 
 
 anyway, hope this helps. 
 
 
 peace
On Adar I 12, 5774 AM, at 17:15, National Association of Guide Dog Users <blind411 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Josh,
> 	I wanted to ask about your message stating you tune your guitar in
> drop-C. My perception of drop-C is a regular tuning with the 6th tuned to C
> and the 5th tuned to G. This is the tuning I use to play Fleetwood Mac's
> "Never Going Back Again". Tuning this way would be very difficult to play in
> any other key than C, so I am curious if this is what you mean or if you
> mean you tune your whole instrument down a Major 3rd.
> 
> Peace!
> Marion
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of josh lester
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 1:16 AM
> To: Music Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [musictlk] Hi, I'm back!
> 
> Hi Lauren!
> I don't know about accessible tuners, but I tune my guitar in drop C, and if
> you're good with pitch, and knowing how things are supposed to sound, that
> in itself would be a good way to tune.
> I've never heard of the tones that you've mentioned, since I only play
> Bluegrass Gospel when I play guitar.
> Feel free to write me off list, if you have any other guitar questions.
> Thanks, Joshua
> 
> On 2/7/14, Lauren Merryfield <lauren at catlines.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been on and off of this list, as with some others. Sometimes I 
>> get too many emails. But I have a question that someone may have 
>> already given me the answer to but I'll post my question here anyway 
>> because there might be more than one answer.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have a question for blind musicians out there. I have two different 
>> tuners for my guitar. One is a pitch pipe with the six notes 
>> corresponding to the notes for the 6 guitar strings. The other is a 
>> pitch pipe type tuner that is round and plays the twelve notes of a 
>> chromatic scale. The notes are all whole tones, sharps or flats.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sighted people can get tuners that visually show them whether their 
>> guitar string or any other instrument is in tune or not and it can 
>> show quarter tones between whole tones, sharps and flats.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My question is:is there such a thing as an accessible tuner that blind 
>> musicians can use that will tell you the exact pitch of what you are 
>> playing, including quarter tones? Is there such a pitch pipe that 
>> would play the sounds of quarter tones or a tuner that tells you by 
>> synthetic speech or some other way, audible or tactile?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In American and European music, we mostly deal with whole tones, 
>> sharps and flats, however in music of other countries such as India, 
>> the Middle East, Asia, etc, they make use of quarter tones.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Well, I sure hope there is someone on this list who knows what in the 
>> world I am asking (it's new to me) and can point me to such a tuner.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lauren
>> 
>> PS:Someone did suggest the HotPaw talking tuner for the iPhone. I 
>> discovered it is only 99 cents so whenever I can get my crazy password 
>> done correctly, I'll download that app.
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> 
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