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Originally posted by groundhogpeggyI've known people who claim their fingers are "too fat" to play in A, on guitar I mean.
As my post above sez, I'm one of those fat-fingered A chord complainers. Of course it depends on the guitar I play. My wife's standard Dreadnought Martin neck width forces me into finger squeeze central. My ultra-narrow mid-seventies Martin M-38's neck is even worse. Ah, but the neck on my L-00 Gibson is just perfect. Then again, there must be a reason why classical, nylon string guitar neck widths are so spacious...
The way I see it, cross-tuning developed because it simply made it easier to play a tune with open string drone accompaniments. Still better, cross-tuning made it so you could play a good two octaves+ of a scale without having to stretch the ring finger on your fretting hand a half-step northward. Yeah, cross-tuning made it so you couldn't easily play a tune in any key you wanted (or the singer demanded). but them's the breaks...
Edited by - Lonesome Fiddler on 07/07/2022 15:44:34
Stretch ring finger half-step northward? Not sure what that would be for G tunes in standard?
But mention of range... often a quality of G tunes in standard tuning is they go up the the third, high b note on first string, staying in first position. In GDGD would have to shift to third position. One aspect to me of what differentiates from A tunes, don't much do that equivalent (up to C#).
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