Well I recently decided to switch over to major fourths tuning and I spent nearly two hours yesterday trying to find info here on ss.org but couldn't find much. Found one with some chords. Anyone know a good resource for finding arpeggio patterns and chords for 4ths tuning?
Major Fourths Tuning
- Thread starter MusicMetalHead
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Waelstrum
All Fourths Advocate
Try searching again, but with perfect fourths.
kung_fu
Vulcan Lute God
Do you have Guitar Pro? I believe it will change the chord/scale/arpeggio fingerings based on whatever tunings you give it. (I haven't tried this myself)
i did search perfect fourths and 4ths and every other way of saying it i could. and i don't have guitar pro. i am not willing to pay for it. know any free guitar pro like items?
kung_fu
Vulcan Lute God
I think PowerTab might be free. Never used it myself, so i'm not sure it will do what you want. It's worth a quick google search.
Mr. Big Noodles
Theory God
Tux Guitar is an open-source editor that opens Guitar Pro files (up to gp5, I think).
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/th...45810-basic-music-theory-an-introduction.html
But, here, Let me google that for you.
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/th...45810-basic-music-theory-an-introduction.html
But, here, Let me google that for you.
once again. did that. i found a couple odd handfuls of chords and a completely useless facebook page.
aiur55
Well-Known Member
Try constructing them yourself? I mean, if you know all the notes just put it to the guitar.
it looks like thats what I'm going to have to do. I actually have a crapton of scales i built myself on excel, makes it about a million times faster than writing it out by hand 
, but now I have to go through and re write them all for this new tuning
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, but now I have to go through and re write them all for this new tuning. Mr. Big Noodles
Theory God
The thing about fourths tuning is that it eliminates that major third on what is normally between the G and the B string. This makes it more difficult to play triads and seventh chords across all the strings in a single position. However, it is perfect if you want to move the same shape around, like so:
Since the mechanics of sweep arpeggios utilize a lot of notes in one position, it is therefore more difficult to sweep triads and some sevenths chords in perfect fourths tuning. The purpose of fourths is very different from that of standard tuning.
Since the mechanics of sweep arpeggios utilize a lot of notes in one position, it is therefore more difficult to sweep triads and some sevenths chords in perfect fourths tuning. The purpose of fourths is very different from that of standard tuning.
For short search terms, Google works better: http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/mu...echniques/45126-4ths-tuning-chord-shapes.html
There's a bunch of folks that use all 4ths tunings here. Ping Durero to see if he has anything.
Ray
There's a bunch of folks that use all 4ths tunings here. Ping Durero to see if he has anything.
Ray
Trespass
AEADGBEA
Do fourths based tuning if your playing Jazz. All your three/four voice chords for comping are accessible all over the neck. Scalar shapes are also all unified now. That's really the benefit.
After using all 4ths tuning for about 15 years I find it's not very different from standard tuning at all. It's only a 1 fret difference on your two highest sounding strings.
If you've already got all the diagrams you need for standard tuning MusicMetalHead I'd suggest not bothering to re-write them just play everything that falls on the highest two strings one fret lower than shown.
You may occasionally find situations where moving a note to an adjacent string make a fingering easier.
If you've already got all the diagrams you need for standard tuning MusicMetalHead I'd suggest not bothering to re-write them just play everything that falls on the highest two strings one fret lower than shown.
You may occasionally find situations where moving a note to an adjacent string make a fingering easier.
Waelstrum
All Fourths Advocate
Fourths tuning is actually not that bad for arpeggios and chords, including 7ths and 6ths and all sorts of crazy things. I actually think it's easier, and it also makes it easier to site read in standard notation, but that's just me.
Here are a few basic shapes for for some chords and arpeggios, some of these involve barring the third fret with the top of the index finger, and the second fret with the bottom of your index finger, which might seem weird, but I think that the ease of reading transposing makes up for it. View attachment Perfect Fourths Tuning.pdf
Here are a few basic shapes for for some chords and arpeggios, some of these involve barring the third fret with the top of the index finger, and the second fret with the bottom of your index finger, which might seem weird, but I think that the ease of reading transposing makes up for it. View attachment Perfect Fourths Tuning.pdf
xtrustisyoursx
Well-Known Member
just to note, that interval is normally referred to as a perfect fourth, not a major fourth, since there is no such thing (normally) as a minor fourth
All_¥our_Bass
Deathly Chuuni
At the moment my 7 is in BEADGCF.
Antimatter
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In that circumstance it still wouldn't be correct, it would be referred to as a diminished fourth.
Yeah. I noticed that about ten seconds after i posted it but I was too lazy to edit it
xtrustisyoursx
Well-Known Member
Well I know, I'm just saying that that nomenclature doesn't exist, regardless of what one would call it.
Well I have been looking all over this site for a good thread on Perfect Fourths Tuning, got it that time , so I have decided to start my own thread. It's just going to be a little cheat sheet with some scales triads and a few basic comping chords, I will probably just keep adding on and adding on and adding on as I go and create more chords scales etc. I'll post the link to it here as soon as I do if anyone is interested. I think Ill start with major and minor scales with their respective pentatonic forms.
, so I have decided to start my own thread. It's just going to be a little cheat sheet with some scales triads and a few basic comping chords, I will probably just keep adding on and adding on and adding on as I go and create more chords scales etc. I'll post the link to it here as soon as I do if anyone is interested. I think Ill start with major and minor scales with their respective pentatonic forms.
