12 String questions. ( is david around?)

D A D F# A D sounds really rich and nice:

http://www.strummeronline.com/dtuning.html

But G is nice as well - D G D G B D.

You get all those octaves floating all over the place - it's great. Have fun :)

Open E and Open G if you're into that bluesy feel!

I see. I know of these tunings, I guess what I was really looking for was some tuning taking advantage of the different intervals you can achive with a 12 string.

Thanks for the advice!~

Ohhh, you mean like tuning the octave pairs in fifths or something? Sorta like a drone thing or making huge, lush quintal harmonies?

Fifths and fourths are what you could probably do; thirds would be weird because of their sequence within a scale. Try fifths maybe. I think you could have your 12 and 11 strings down to C with no problem, then, go up in fifths maybe.

That would sound pretty cool. :)

Yeahm and I was thinking mabey if there was some way of tunign different strings to different intervals within a key...but i have no idea how or if that would work/sound good.

You should be able to tune the second set of strings to thirds. Pick a key and do it to diatonic thirds (1=major, 2=minor, etc.) The only trouble you should have is you'll limit the keys you can play in, but you should be able to get some great sounds.

I've nevre even thought about this before, but when I get a 12 I'm giving it a try.

If I would tune to thirds that woudl invloves tuning up, correct? So mabye I should tuner everything down a whole step to begin with.

I dunno, im not quite sure how to go about it. I'm not good with theroy, or with tuning. :oops:

Sorry - I didn't even see this 'til yesterday (being away from the computer for ten days isn't always a good thing)! I'll answer in this week's newsletter, since I've too much running around to do in the next few days. I hope that's okay.

Peace

No problem at all man. Thanks for all your work on this site, by the way. :D