Open C tuning
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Open C Tuning is an open tuning for guitar. The open string notes in this tuning are CGCGCE.[1] It uses the three notes that form the triad of a C major chord: C, the root note; G, the perfect fifth; and E the major third.
When the guitar is strummed without fretting any of the strings a C major chord is sounded. This means that any major chord can be easily created using one finger, fretting all the strings at once.
[edit] Variants and users
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- CGCGCE - used by Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) acoustic guitar on "Question" ("Question of Balance" LP). Also used extensively by John Butler.
- Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad) tunes his guitars to CGCGCE in most of his songs or, when he uses a 7 string guitar, GCGCGCE. From Ki onwards,
he started to tune his six string guitars down a half step (BF#BF#BD#) or a whole step (BbFBbFBbD). Townsend has said many times that he got the idea to use this tuning for his own material after learning the song "Friends" by Led Zeppelin
- CGCFCE - used by Nick Drake in the song Pink Moon.[2]
- CGCGCE♭ - open C minor tuning, which produces a C minor chord. Used by Laurence Juber on "The Age of Rhythm", from Al Stewart's Between the Wars.
- CGCE♭GC - open C minor tuning, which produces a C minor chord. Used by Niko Wenner on the Oxbow songs: A Winner Every Time; Time Gentlemen, Time; It's the Giving Not the Taking; etc. Also used by Gojira on the song "The Art of Dying" from The Way of All Flesh (album).
- CGCGCD - C modal tuning (Csus2), analogous to DADEAD. Used by Ani Difranco in “Falling Is like This” from Out of Range, by Nic Jones in “Canadee I O” from Penguin Eggs, and very frequently by Jim Tozier[3].
- CGCGCF - C modal tuning (Csus4), analogous to DADGAD. Used frequently by Kelly Joe Phelps[4] and occasionally by John Renbourn.
- CACGCE (Open C 6th) - used by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin songs "Friends" (Led Zeppelin III), "Bron-Yr-Aur" (Physical Graffiti) and "Poor Tom", (Coda)
- CGCGGE (Open C doubled 5th) - used by Soundgarden on songs "Pretty Noose" and "Burden in My Hand" (Down on the Upside) and "Head Down" and "Half" (Superunknown)
- The British band Aliases, formed by ex-SikTh member Graham "Pin" Pinney, uses Open C tuning on several songs.
- CECGCC - used by Bad Company on "Can't Get Enough."
- CGCEGC - used by Elliott Smith on "Ballad Of Big Nothing," "See You Later," and "Independence Day."
- CGEGCC - used by Bon Iver on "Skinny Love."
- CGCEGD - used by Haunted Shores on "Scarlet."
- CGCGCC (Open C5) - used by Fair to Midland on much of their songs.[5] They also tune it down 1/2 step (BF#BF#BB).
[edit] References
- ^ Baughman, Steve (2004). "Open C". Mel Bay Beginning Open Tunings. Pacific, Missouri: Mel Bay Publications. pp. 8–14. ISBN 978-0-7866-7093-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=zCSPzwsNhcIC&pg=PA8.
- ^ Healy, Chris. "Pink Moon". Nick Drake Files. Mikael Ledin. http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/chrispink.html. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ Guitar tuning C-G-C-G-C-D
- ^ Kelly Joe Phelps tunings
- ^ "Interview with Fair to Midland". http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=183723738&blogId=343414308.[self-published source?]
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