Nashville tuning may not be something you typically associate with the baritone guitar. However, in this video, virtuoso Pat Metheny beautifully demonstrates what his half Nashville alternative tuning can offer to baritone players.
You could spend a lifetime trying to copy Pat's musical stylings. Fortunately, emulating this tuning takes minutes.
Pat's half Nashville tuning requires that you sub out the 3rd and 4th strings in your typical baritone string set for standard-gauge guitar strings and tune both one active up from normal baritone tunning. Thus, your typical baritone would be tuned (low to high) B, E, A^, D^, F#, and B. Note: the "^" symbol denotes the raised octave. Pat tunes his baritone A to A, so if you want to follow more precisely in his sonic footsteps, try tuning your baritone to A, D, G^, C^, E, A.
This alternative tuning adds brightness and breadth to the baritone guitar, creating interesting voicing possibilities. Please reply with your comments, thoughts, questions or links to your musical experiments with half Nashville tuning.
7 Comments
4/16/2018 01:40:42 pm
What ga stiring take place of d &g for hAlf baritpone NASHVILLE tuning
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Matt
4/19/2018 09:15:14 pm
First off, thanks for your question Tom. As I understand it, Pat is using medium to heavy gauge standard acoustic strings.
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Anticueca
9/16/2018 12:32:14 am
Thanks for the information
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Sambajammer
1/26/2020 01:48:53 pm
I think I may understand the origin of the Taylor 8 baritone, one of which I am happy to own. The octave pairs on the 3 and 4 strings add a brightness to the overall sound.
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Joe Brackman
7/12/2020 03:10:27 pm
Joe Beck and Frank Gambale have both used similar tunings as well. I think Gambale's is in baritone A-A, but might be an octave up? Don't remember. Gambale has also wanted to take ownership if this tuning and proposed that it be called the Gambale Tuning...
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10/3/2020 08:17:50 am
https://www.facebook.com/PatMetheny/videos/285857252730345
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