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Such instruments are becoming affordable, but it is worth noting that the symetry between the 3 bass and the 3 trebles strings is then lost. Demanding players who wish to remain able to play the most acrobatic soli could consider moving to a 7 strings guitar. The sole drawback with M3 (not counting the change of habits) is the shortening by two wholetones of the overall pitch span of the instrument. This is an crucial point that, together with the much greater easiness of the fingerings, makes up most of the superiority of major thirds over the other uniform challenger, the all fourths tuning. In all cases, adding the octave is straightforward: it is the same fret, 3 strings higher.

adding a sixth, a seventh, a ninth or eleventh is done without awkward finger stretching on the perfect major or minor fundamental chord and on both inversions.

minor) thirds, are quite as easy and transposable

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diminished) chord positions, that is series of major (resp.

Triad positions (3 notes chords), major and minor (fundamental and both inversions) are dirty simple, and transposable not only along the fretboard (as with bar chords in standard tuning) but, great novelty, across the neck!.

Actually we could repeat the words of our friend Johann Sebastian « So spielt das Instrument von selber » ! Summary of the benefits of a regular and periodic tuning

Today, I am most often improvising, and when I am inspired by an existing piece, I do not have to work hard to acquire automatisms, because, thanks to the instrument's uniformity, it does not take long until you can play naturally (not unlike singing). Before, I did my best to reproduce and memorize compositions, with no hope to get close in any fashion to the great interprets. Since that day, my relation with the guitar has changed completely. In other words, I tuned my guitar in major thirds (M3 for short).

So I adopted the other solution, namely applying to all strings the interval between the 2nd and the 3rd. That is indeed the way bass guitars are commonly tuned, but this instrument is not usually used to play chords. Big fingering issues then appear for simple chords already. So the interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings is increased by a semi-tone, in order to make it equal to the others, namely a fourth. The first reaction is an attempt to tune all strings in fourths. More than once had I wondered if it would be practicable to avoid this discontinuity between the 3rd and 2nd strings. The guitarist however has a decisive advantage over the keyboard or electronic keyboard player: of course he can tune his guitar as desired at any moment, but above all he is not blocked by material layout which cannot be worked around, since the guitar's fretboard is basically uniform. Nonetheless, traditional guitar tuning presents us with a major irregularity : the second string is 2 tones above the third string ( major third interval), though all other strings are tuned 2½ tones above the next lower string ( fourth interval).

Though not really a fixed noted instrument, the guitar is just as well an equal temperament instrument: the distances between frets of practically all contemporary guitars enforce the frequency ratios characteristic of the equal temperament. Major thirds: a new tuning that changes everything The guitar is more flexible than the keyboard Simply move your hand along or across the neck for ALL other minor scales!Ĭontents The guitar is more flexible than the keyboard Uniformity at your fingertips Summary of the benefits of a regular and periodic tuning Bar chords in standard tuning: firing on all cylinders.and the straitjacket is tight Bye bye bar chords: your forefinger says thank you Using TuxGuitar, recycle your tablatures Chord tables References, comments Simply move your hand along or across the neck for ALL other major scales!

Click on the buttons to tune the six strings of your guitar in major thirds (M3)

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