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Saturday, March 30, 2019

166. THE FINGER-PICKING 5-4-3M-3m-4 TUNING OF THE 6-STRING GUITAR

It is a slight variation of the panduri-tambouras-bouzouki tuning of post 160 and of bouzouki panduri-panduri tuning of post 165 is the next bouzouki panduri-tuning.



It is based on the idea of finger-picking ina 6-string guitar.In other words that

1) The lower 2 strings are to be used as bass
2) The 4th 3rd and 2nd string (counting from higher pitch) are to be used for major-minor chord triads
3) The highest pitch string is to be used for solo

Thus for a privilege scale e.g.  C major 
1) The bass will be C2-G2

2) The C major chord will be C3-E3-G3 

3) The solo highest string will be C4

Thus in total 

C2-G2-C3-E3-G3-C4

which is an open C major chord 

Similarly for open D major 

D2-A2-D3-F#3-A3-D4  (or for D minor D2-A2-D3-F3-A3-D4)

Which is a Bouzouki at D2-A2-D3 and a panduri at D3-F3-A3 and at F3-A3-C4. The advantage is that the 4-strings D3-F3-A3-C4 allow for two rows of normal forms major-minor chords for accompanying at higher range.

Similarly for open F major 

F2-C2-F3-A3-D4-F4  (or for F minor F2-C2-F3-A#3-D4-F)

Similarly for open E major 

E2-G#2-E3-G#3-B3-E4  (or for E minor E2-G2-E3-G3-B3-E4 )

Similarly for open G major 

G2-D2-G3-B3-D4-G4  (or for G minor G2-D2-G3-Bb3-D4-G )

As alternative

1) The lower 1 strings are to be used as bass
2) The 5th 4th and 3rd and 2nd string (counting from higher pitch) are to be used for major-minor chord triads
3) The 2 highest pitch string is to be used for solo

Thus for a privilege scale e.g.  F major 
1) The bass will be C2

2) The F major chord will be F2-A2-C3 

3) The solo highest strings will be E3-G4

Thu in total C2-F2-A2-C3-F3-F4

which is an open F major