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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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I don't have a 12 string but while playing around with theory today it crossed my mind, it would be a bit differant if one set of 12 string stings was tuned standard e a d g b e, and the other was tuned to the fifth notes. b e a d f# b. I tried it out on a six string balalaika and it sounded alright and differant to me. Anybody done this sort of stuff? Or want to give it a whirl and let me know how it jangles? it may be old hat for all I know, but asking anyway as i have never sen any referanc eto it. Graham ------------------ http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/grahamhenderson_music.htm
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I think it might be cool in a limited sort of way.
You'd really be playing each chord and the same kind of chord a fifth higher at the same time.
In D -- D F# A and above it A C# and E -- for example.
It would make every major chord you played a Xmaj7(add9) chord. The retuned string on the third would add a major seventh (For a D chord, for example, a fifth above the F# is a C#.) The fifth would add the ninth. (D's fifth, the A, would add an E on the retuned string.)
Similarly, all minor chords would wind up a Xmin7(add 9).
It might make a kind of a cool sound -- sort of like the same barre chord being played up and down the neck. Only it would be in different inversions.
I think you might run into problems if you played chords that already have accidentals, though.
For example, if you played a D7, you'd have those notes -- D, F#, A and C -- along with the notes a fifth higher -- A C# E and G.
So your chord would two sets of tones a half step apart -- C and C# and F# and G. And those two sets of notes are a tritone apart.
Without hearing it, it's hard to imagine that's going to sound too pleasant.
But sticking to plain major and minor chords, it might make a nice droning sound.
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yep. It gets a sort of a drone going. I am having fun with it anyway. checking every chord I have used so far, the notes included in it makes them recognised chords but right now i can't remember which ones. I don't know it would be a problem anywhere as if all notes played on any pair of strings are a set distance apart, that would remain the same no matter where the chord was played. Thanks for the interest. I just noodle around with this stuff for fun, and sometimes learn something by accident. Graham ------------------ http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/grahamhenderson_music.htm
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