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Simple guitar question/Perfect Fourth
Godfather
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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?
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?
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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.
EDIT: Except if the original is in Bm you'll want to transpose it up a fourth, not a fifth, but whatever.