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Thursday, April 11, 2019

196. THE E2-B2-D3-G3-B3-E4 (5-3m-4-3M-4) OPEN Em7 AND THE (5-5-4-3M-4 ) FOUR INSTRUMENTS TUNING OF THE 6-STRING GUITAR AND OUD


This is tuning is probably the simplest conversion of the standard Guitar tuning to open tuning.
We simply turn the A2 string to an B2 string,  Because of the D3-G3-B3-E4 part it has two rows of easy minor-major triads with 2 or 3 only frets. An advantage is that it contains at an interval of 5 which sounds good in an open chord. It is the 5-3m-4-3M-4 tuning

The next tool can calculate the chords

https://www.gtdb.org/ebdgbe




As an alternative, we may apply the 5-5-4-3M-4  E.g.  C2-G2-D3-G3-B3-E4, for both the Oud and the 6-string guitar. 

The D3-G3-B3-E4  part is a 4-string Greek Bouzouki in G major

The G2-D3-G3 part is a 3-string Greek Bouzouki in Bb major

The C2-G2-D3-G3 is a bass Irish 4-string Bouzouki

The C2-G2-D3 is a low tambouras or saz.

We can have this tuning also in reflected form in other words 

4-3M-4-5-5   E.g.  C2-F2-A2-D3-A3-E4 . 



The 4-3M-4-4-4  or C2-F2-A2-D3-G3-C4  is one of the standard tuning of the OUD.

But we can have also its reflected version like

4-4-4-3M-4   E.g.  E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4  which is of course none other than the stanrd of the guitar.