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Books with songs in alternate tunings.
I posted this over in Uncategorized but have received no replies, so I'll try it here.
I'm a lower intermediate player looking for books with songs in alternate tuning with tab that I can learn to play. I've been scouring the internet for examples and am just not finding much. There are plenty of books on alternate tunings but most don't have complete songs. I had high hopes for Mark Hanson's "Complete Book of Alternate Tunings", but there isn't one complete song in it. I have a couple of his other books which do have some great complete songs, but mostly in standard tuning, so I was very surprised by the absence of any in this one. I popped for his "Beyond Basics Intro To Alternate Tunings", thinking it was a book, but it's a DVD with a pocket size book of Tab to the songs on the DVD. I've learned a couple of the songs that I like and Drake's Passage in DADGAD has become one of my favorite songs to play, but a pocket size book? Really? I have to scan the pages, enlarge them in Photoshop and reprint them just to be able to read them. I hope some of you can lead me to some sources here.
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Permalink Reply by Brian J Derry on -
I don't know if you are into Celtic music but there are some great tunebooks with a range of open/alternative tunings. I can highly recommend those by Rob MacKillop (especially "The Scottish Guitar"), Keith Hinchliffe ( eg "Islands"), Al Petteway, Steve Baughman and Jim Tozier. They are all available via Amazon, at least in England. The skill levels vary but I am around the lower intermediate level too and can have a good stab at most of the tunes.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Brian
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Permalink Reply by Oscar Mendez on -
Hi Terry! how are you man!
The alternate tunings is dificult to found,
youtube have many tutorial for exercises,
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Permalink Reply by Furry Moses on -
One of my favorite guitarists, Michael Chapdelaine, who's on youtube, always seems to use alternate tunings and often provides the "tabs" for free - http://www.youtube.com/user/michaelchapdelaine/videos?view=0
He also sells some music on his website - http://www.michaelchapdelaine.com/arrangements.html
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