The Fifth Course

I've had my favorite solid body electric guitar, mid 80's Fender Squier Telecaster, tuned in fifths for a few years now (CGDAE), but
1) never had a regular use for it and
2) never really liked the low C, it was too low for the scale length I think.

Recently I slapped a capo on the 7th fret and played it GDAEB. Ahhh, nice. But a little limiting given the length of the neck and the poor intonation. Compromise, tune DAEBF# and capo at the fifth fret. Better. But it occurred to me that if I don't use the capo I'll be real close to a guitar's dropped D tuning.

Ooohhhhh. That's cool.

I've been playing a lot of barre chords. I've also been doing Ted Eschliman's FFcP exercises. So my wrist and my pinky are a little tired tonight. But I'm happy with the sound and feel of the guitar. It's going with me to my next band rehearsal. It may end up replacing my Gary Vessel F5 acoustic mandolin and Epiphone mando(la)bird on a lot of tunes.

Daniel