I dropped my Nashville tuning strung guitar to Open D. Just beautiful. (lemmy.ml)

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Obviously Open D is a very pretty tuning to start but doing so on a Nashville tuning strung guitar is just heavenly. You can mindlessly pluck amd strum and before you know it an hour or two have passed.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Huh I never heard of Nashville tuning before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_tuning_%28high_strung%29

Any good examples of songs that use this?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I know Led Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell have a few songs using Nashville tuning, but I tend to use my high strung guitar for ambient improvisation. Below is a good example.

https://youtu.be/sixyVH-GfzM

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's on it's own at the beginning of "Wild Horses" by the Stones

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I just remembered a great Nashville Tuning song. Free Fallin by Tom Petty

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting. When I want that kind of sound I normally break out the mandolin, so I have no real experience with high strung tunings, but I bet it sounds great in open D.

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