JAddison Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I am wondering if open E tuning will add too much tension on the old girls top... Safe? I use 12 / lights by the way. I want to experiment how she sounds playng slide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I am wondering if open E tuning will add too much tension on the old girls top... Safe? I use 12 / lights by the way. I want to experiment how she sounds playng slide Wanting to play slide.. then wouldn't Open G be better ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacamartin Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I am wondering if open E tuning will add too much tension on the old girls top... Safe? I use 12 / lights by the way. I want to experiment how she sounds playng slide Unless you drop your gauge way, way down. Open E on an ol' box is a belly buster! J.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis57 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Personally I now use open D capoed second fret to great satisfaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Tuning to Open E only requires tuning 2 strings up a full step and another a 1/2 step. Granted a '66 LG has a pencil thin neck but with lighter guage strings it should be OK. I agree with a previous poster that if it worries you at all just tune to Open D - same flippin chord forms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Tuning to Open E only requires tuning 2 strings up a full step and another a 1/2 step. Granted a '66 LG has a pencil thin neck but with lighter guage strings it should be OK. I agree with a previous poster that if it worries you at all just tune to Open D - same flippin chord forms. Won't any Open tuning be the same chord forms Zomby ? From my little experience for slide..i always thought G to be the most common ?... maybe only the artists I know ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeljohnr Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Personally I now use open D capoed second fret to great satisfaction What he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I am wondering if open E tuning will add too much tension on the old girls top... Safe? I use 12 / lights by the way. I want to experiment how she sounds playng slide You can use Open E on the LG1 if you must - let us know what happens! Kidding! The less brave (ME) stay with Open D or lower on ole LG1s - unless you are playing with another player, the Open D is just fine and perhaps you can then safely add a thicker 13 or 14 for a first string bottleneck. Here is an older clip of me playing slide on my 52 LG1 in Open D: http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11288917&q=hi&newref=1 BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Won't any Open tuning be the same chord forms Zomby ? From my little experience for slide..i always thought G to be the most common ?... maybe only the artists I know ? the chord shapes are the same , sorta , just move the shape up a string width from G to D/E ... which for an openD song if you tried to play it in G then you would need a seventh string ....but , there is a difference in sound i've never tuned 'up' to open E , would always tune down to D and then capo .. but my fear was more of breaking a string to be honest . good to know its safe to do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Here is an older clip of me playing slide on my 52 LG1 in Open D: http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11288917&q=hi&newref=1 BluesKing777. Man, that was effin' cool BK. I really had a picture of you sitting on a porch in the Luisiana Cotton fields sliding away, with just two teeth left ... Did you use an old VB Bottle for the slide duties ... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Man, that was effin' cool BK. I really had a picture of you sitting on a porch in the Luisiana Cotton fields sliding away, with just two teeth left ... Did you use an old VB Bottle for the slide duties ... ? Thanks EA! While I have loved blues music since I was a kid, I don't want to live the life, apart from playing on the porch - just 2 teeths? EEK! And I used a uppity Blue Diamond Bottleneck made from Italian Morano Cobalt Glass...... Pic below: http://s1300.beta.photobucket.com/user/BluesKing777/media/LG1-1a_zps2af15e57.jpg.html BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I'd see no reason at all to play in open E. Open D Capo 2 is all you need and it is safer. You really feel the stress on that guitar and the strings when you crank those two strings up one full step. Eeeek! Cat Stevens played "If I Laugh" on his J200 in open E. I supposed if you can afford to have your J200 collapse and just buy another that's ok. For me.... not! Cat Stevens "If I Laugh" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVtmIVD9xc Me "If I Laugh" :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOg_g0C160U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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