{"id":17043,"date":"2019-10-24T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=17043"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:23:23","slug":"looking-for-new-alternate-tunings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadiemusic.com\/blog\/looking-for-new-alternate-tunings\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for New Alternate Tunings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many alternate tunings are there for guitar? A s#$%load. Here are some of the resources I\u2019ve come across when surfing <!--more-->the invisible waves of the omnipresent Internet.<\/p>\n<h2>Roadie Tuner<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\">Roadie Tuner<\/a> user, experimenting with alternate tunings is as easy as tuning to standard. The tuner comes with 40+ preset alternate tunings. They also released a new feature that allows you to continually download new alternate tunings via the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/roadie-app\">Roadie Tuner App<\/a> and sync them to your Roadie Tuner device!<\/p>\n<p>You can also download the free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/blog\/now-available-on-ios-android-free-roadie-tuner-app\/\">Roadie Tuner app for Android or iOS<\/a> and use it to tune your guitar. They&#8217;ve got a whole bunch of alternate tunings that you can purchase for less than other tuning apps.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Accent on Music\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accentonmusic.com\/\">Accent on Music<\/a> is a mom-and-pop company run by a husband and wife team Mark Hanson and Greta Pedersen. Mark Hanson is a fingerstyle guitarist, and quite prolific when it comes to creating educational material for guitarists. Since starting in 1985, Accent on Music has released more than 30 books on acoustic guitar alone. Along with these books, there are CDs and videos full of tips and techniques. Mark Hanson covers the seventeen most popular alternate tunings, so there\u2019s plenty of ammo for your Roadie 2.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Musician Tuts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musiciantuts.com\/guitar-tunings\/#List_of_Guitar_Tunings\">Musician Tuts<\/a> is, as the name implies, a website that offers tutorials for musicians. Naturally, it also has a section dedicated to alternate tunings. What I found really helpful about this list of alternate tunings is that they also provide an audio sample for each tuning. This way, you can hear exactly what it is supposed to sound like, and what you can expect when using it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How To Tune A Guitar<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Another website that does what it says on the can is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtotuneaguitar.org\/tuning\/alternate-guitar-tuning-chart\/\">HowToTuneYourGuitar.org<\/a>. It is not as comprehensive as the other resources listed here, but I\u2019ve included it because it has a nice cheat sheet for the most popular alternative tunings.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Nothing says \u2018research skills\u2019 like a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_guitar_tunings\">Wikipedia reference<\/a>. Judge me all you want, but Wikipedia does outline pretty much everything you need to know in terms of alternate tunings. The entry covers Open tunings in Major, Minor, Modal, and Extended chords. It also covers Regular tunings, Dropped, Shifted, and extended range tunings. Although it doesn\u2019t have cool video tutorials on how to actually get to those tunings, it does give you everything you need to know to program your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/roadie2\">Roadie 2<\/a>. Don\u2019t listen to the haters, Wikipedia is only wrong when you read entries about the Kardashians. Which I don\u2019t see why you would read.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Guitar Tuning Database<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Maybe you just can\u2019t get enough alternate tunings. Then you\u2019ll love this. On the front page of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtdb.org\/\">Guitar Tuning Database<\/a> there\u2019s a little box that says \u2018Alternative Guitar Tunings\u2019. In that box, you\u2019ll see that their massive database includes no less than 947 tunings, 281259 chords, 104170 scales, and 332 tabs. These numbers are still rising. It is every guitarist\u2019s wet dream.<\/p>\n<p>For a super cool in-depth look at tuning, check out our new &amp; improved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/blog\/the-complete-guide-to-guitar-tuning\/\">Complete Guide to Guitar Tuning.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":20859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[1293,1295,1302,1303,1304],"class_list":["post-17043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tutorials","tag-instrument_guitar","tag-genre_all","tag-level_advanced","tag-content_tuning","tag-tuning_alternate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.8 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looking for New Alternate Tunings? - Roadie Music Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How many alternate tunings are there for guitar? 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