billkilpatrick
Apr-22-2004, 4:56am
strictly speaking this is more of a general music question than a mandolin question but if anyone can explain the following quote, i'd be very much obliged:
"as his tunings were not 'open' tunings, but rather were tuned to suspensions - in other words at least on(e) string must be fretted to reach the tonic chord..."
would i be correct in saying this means a partially open tuning in which one or more strings must be fingered to make a chord?
in any case, could you give an example which pertains to a guitar?
sincerely - bill
"as his tunings were not 'open' tunings, but rather were tuned to suspensions - in other words at least on(e) string must be fretted to reach the tonic chord..."
would i be correct in saying this means a partially open tuning in which one or more strings must be fingered to make a chord?
in any case, could you give an example which pertains to a guitar?
sincerely - bill