Simple guitar question/Perfect Fourth

Godfather

Kind of a silly question, but I could use some help on this:


Bought one of Andy McKee's (from Candyrat Record fame) guitar pieces, called "Heather's Song." Found out it was written for Baritone Guitar, and I only have a regular one. Since standard guitars can't tune that low, I just want to tune my guitar to match the same intervals as closely as possible.


The piece is tuned in a Perfect Fourth low for the baritone, so i'm wondering what the equivalent of that would be for a standard guitar.


Can anyone help?

metaghost

So, looking up the tuning for "Heather's Song" on the Andy Mckee forums, which would seem somewhat reliable, you have:

B E A D F# B

Which is just Standard tuning dropped a fourth, in the context of a Bmin scale.

Variant tunings that would be workable on a non-Baritone guitar and in Bmin:

1. C# F# B E G C#
2. D G C# F# A D
3. Any other system of Root > 4th > 4th > 4th > 3rd > 4th using the Bmin scale (B C# D E F# G A)

Of course, you might want to just tune everything up a whole step and put a capo on the 5th fret.

Space Pickle

Just transpose the sheet music up a fifth and play it in E minor.

garroad_ran

Space Pickle wrote: »

Just transpose the sheet music up a fifth and play it in E minor.

EDIT: Except if the original is in Bm you'll want to transpose it up a fourth, not a fifth, but whatever.

Space Pickle

I have made an ass of myself /facepalm