Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - How many of you play a guitar tuned down to Eb?

airtractorfan · May 6th, 2008, 03:18 AM

Playing songs from a church hymnal with a piano player is a very good reason to tune down 1/2 step to Eb. Most songs in the hymnal are written in flats[a few in sharps#] which allows a guitar player tuned to Eb to play on the dots[fret markers] instead of between the dots.A song in Eb allows you to use the 1st position E chord and open string notes also.
Most church piano players had rather play in flats instead of sharps.Most of the Keys that we guitar players use are sharps# [ A G D E ] Please reference the Circle of Fifths.

Example : Amazing Grace in a church hymnal is usually written with 1 # next to the treble cleft which is the key of G
A lot more of the songs are written with b[F] bb[Bb] bbb[Eb] bbbb[Ab] bbbbb[ Db] flats next to the treble cleft than with sharps#.

May 6th, 2008, 03:18 AM	#44 (permalink)
airtractorfan Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tulsa Posts: 138	Playing songs from a church hymnal with a piano player is a very good reason to tune down 1/2 step to Eb. Most songs in the hymnal are written in flats[a few in sharps#] which allows a guitar player tuned to Eb to play on the dots[fret markers] instead of between the dots.A song in Eb allows you to use the 1st position E chord and open string notes also. Most church piano players had rather play in flats instead of sharps.Most of the Keys that we guitar players use are sharps# [ A G D E ] Please reference the Circle of Fifths. Example : Amazing Grace in a church hymnal is usually written with 1 # next to the treble cleft which is the key of G A lot more of the songs are written with b[F] bb[Bb] bbb[Eb] bbbb[Ab] bbbbb[ Db] flats next to the treble cleft than with sharps#.