[musictlk] Drop-C Tuning?

Thu Feb 13 13:15:54 UTC 2014

Dear All,
	This explanation does not match my understanding of drop-C tuning;
rather, it seems to simply tune the whole guitar down a major third,
resulting in the tuning being C F Bb E G C. From a technical perspective,
drop-C tuning refers to dropping the sixth to a c and the fifth to a G
(creating a fifth), rather than the usual fourth)  and the remaining strings
staying in standard tuning. This tuning can be heard in Lindsey Buckingham's
"Never Going Back Again" by clicking on the following link 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHyQS9blvIc

	As a classically trained, more theoretical guitarist I wanted to
know if I was mistaken, and did some research on drop-C tuning and found the
following that seems to confirm my understanding and is supported by a
number of other explanations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_C_tuning

I hope this information is helpful to you.

Peace!
Marion

-----Original Message-----
From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Timothy
Clark Music
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:57 PM
To: Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Drop-C Tuning?

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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cats."
>> ~
>> 
>> 
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