fun practice exercise

[LongBlackVeil]

Just had alot of fun with this.

Alot of times to practice ill play over an album or a backing track. Im sure others do this too. Try detuning your bottom G and D strings down completely out of tune. Now try and play your tunes or licks or what have you. Really forces you out of your comfortable shapes and patterns and forces you to get creative. Which you can apply to your regular tuning playing later on

[peterleyenaar]

I think I'll give that one a pass

[JeffD]

What you could do is to either tune the bottom two string courses up a note to A and E or tune the top two down to G and D. That way you will be in a pretty common cross tuning.

Then when you struggle to relearn the tunes, in addition to developing mental musical agility, you will be able to play in cross!