Ill try-its not easy without a guitar.
First- its not moving 'up' its moving everything OVER one string.
Heres why
Open G is, from low to high strings:
DGDGBD
which is in the G chord, or G scale
515135
Open E is
EBEG#BE
or
151351
If you think of all the licks you play in open E across the fingerboard in terms of intervals, we could name the tuning as
151351
If you mentally move all licks and chord positions back one string toward the low strings for G tuning, the intervals and positions are the same from the lowest string up to the 5th string
15135- you lose the top root(1) on the highest string, and gain a 5 on the lowest
In reverse, if you move over one string position toward the high strings when thinking from G tuning to E tuning, its the same thing. In this case you lose the root (1) on the lowest string, and gain a 5 on the highest.
The middle 5 strings stay the same in intervalic relationship. All the same licks and chord patterns still apply.
Of course the same rules apply for open A and D as well since they are in essence G and E tuned up or down one step.
How'd I do? Make sense?
I still thank Kirby every day for that one lesson.
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