Alternate Tunings for Fingerstyle Guitar

Unleash your creativity with Alternate Tunings for Fingerstyle Guitar. In this comprehensive guide, Doug Young explores 12 alternate tunings, while learning 19 fingerstyle arrangements, opening up new musical horizons for instrumental acoustic fingerstyle guitarists. The aim of this book is to present and demystify the logic behind various tunings and provide you with practical approaches to quickly comprehend any tuning, while learning. new tunes at the same time. We'll look at chord shapes and patterns, demonstrating key concepts around each tuning with diagrams, tablature, and short examples, and then apply the ideas to full arrangements that leverage each tuning. Audio for all examples and tunes is available online.Learn:Twelve different tunings.How to make sense of any new tuning quickly.Nineteen fingerstyle guitar arrangements of beautiful traditional tunes, including Irish, Scottish, and American folk songs.Over fifty examples demonstrating key features of each tuning.Tunes and Tunings Include:Drop-D Blind Mary Danny Boy ShenandoahOpen G Spanish Fandango Planxty IrwinDADGAD Three Lovely Lassies from Kimmage Cross Stitch The Rose in the Heather The Sky Boat SongOpen D The Flowers of EdinburghOrkney Tuning Hector the HeroG Minor Wayfaring StrangerD Minor Celia ConnellanDGDGAD Paddy Fahey’s Jig Paddy Fahey’s ReelCGDGAD Lady Owen’s DelightC Wahine Planxty George BrabazonEADEAE The Banks of the BannEBDGBD The Foggy Dew Read more