Not sure if rules against self promo prohibit vids of us noodling or not, but I’ve been working in “New Standard Tuning” (all fifths and then a high minor third) lately and it has been a fun experience…apart from having to memorize 4 note per string scales, there are some real finger twisters at the low end of the neck for sure. Anyone else tried this out?
Hey thanks! As for what it enables, it definitely allows for wider voicings to be under your fingers, and the tuning is more consistent until the highest string, so thinking across string groups is easier. A lot of your familiar patterns will sound interestingly shifted, and it makes you think about phrasing pretty differently.
What you lose is some of the familiar, honky, close-together sounds of the guitar we’ve all grown up with. Playing a major or minor second (as opposed to a ninth) is pretty brutal.
All in all, I’ve found it a useful way to expand musically, but it’s not a perfect experience, which is kinda what Fripp was going for when he developed it. There are absolutely some gorgeous chord voicings that I don’t ever wanna lose (kinda like the first time you ever slid an open C shape up a wholestep).