The thing about standard tuning or drop D is as mentioned before, you don't loose your mental fret board map. I've had the DVD now for some weeks and I cant tell you what an eye opener it is. The chords section is a real treat. I'm now playing with the different voicings of chords.
When you standard/drop d tuners are sliding around, do you visualize the chord when your playing it (like the chord forms for specific string sets Kirk listed above) ?
can you re-learn songs from open tunings and get the same tone, or does that "natural" chorus effect get lost in standard tuning? I've been hot on the trail of some more ragtime tunes but many are in open tunings and there again I'm lost. With more practice I'm sure I could find the "lined up" chords to play the songs but the phrase by phrase licks will they work out the same? Mainly, I was listening to Harlem Slims stuff and Bill Broonzy
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