If you, like me, prefer to keep your tenor guitar tuned CGDA and want to play some nice fiddle tunes once in a while without the hassle of transposing the backup chords for tabs or reading standard notation, you can try SC2 (Raising the standard).
The following steps will lead you to playing many tunes' tabs (if not all)
1 Find a mandolin tab for a tune in which the G-string is not used.
Let' say "Ricket's Hornpipe"
2 Put a capo on the second fret of your tenor guitar
3 Play the melody as written in the tab, just one string below.
"Ricket's Hornpipe" starts thus on the third string, the G-string in CGDA tuning which becomes an A-string by using a Capo
4 The high b note, which needs an awkward stretch on a tenor guitar tuned GDAE is a breeze; just play the open first string.
Thus, you might play your tenor guitar in any OT session. If there are notes below the D, just fake them...
I learned this tuning from Rob MacKillop over at Banjohangout. He also has an e-book available with tunes in standard notation and tabs in SC2.
For those who want to know exactly what they are doing, this is a good learning tool.
Those less theoretically inclined: just Capo 2, one string below,,,
Ricket's Hornpipe on my tenor uke tuned CGDA with capo at the second fret (followed by my soprano mando-tuned uke)
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