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Fiddlers don't always tune in fifths. There's a couple of tunes I play in DDAD, my favorite for its three octaves of awesome resonance. Classical violinists t
by boothby 5y ago
Fiddlers don't always tune in fifths. There's a couple of tunes I play in DDAD, my favorite for its three octaves of awesome resonance. Classical violinists tend to sneer at such tunings, outside of rather esoteric baroque players, I believe. It's a shame, because different tunings can really change the tone of the instrument in interesting ways.
As the comments allude, fifths make it easy to play a large range of harmonious music. And, no doubt. A lot of fiddle tunes are written for cross-tuning, and they're tortuous to play at speed in GDAE.
- BoxOfRain 5y ago>It's a shame, because different tunings can really change the tone of the instrument in interesting ways. I find this with guitar, but guitarists on the whole aren't snobbish about alternate tunings. DADGAD is my favourite guitar tuning for similar reasons.
- Zuider 5y agoDADEAE is another tuning that is good for resonant melodic playing without straining the neck. As you can see you have the D,A,E strings tuned in 5ths like a banjo or fiddle.
- aidenn0 5y agoAccording to my dad, guitarists were more snobbish about tunings in the past. By the late 60s it was cool to experiment with tunings (at least for rock guitarists), but he says there definitely was a point where you were looked down on, particularly for open tunings