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Chapter 7: Alternate Guitar Tunings
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Chapter 7: Alternate Guitar Tunings
Alternate Guitar Tunings added!
The Guitar window now supports alternate tunings, including DADGAD, Drop D, Double Drop D, Open G and 11
others! You can also select “Nashville High Strung” tunings, which tune certain strings up an octave. The new
tunings are supported in Styles, Chord Diagrams, Guitar Tutor, Notation, Tab, and Printout. Learn how to play
these tunings by watching the on-screen Guitar Fretboard or Notation/Tab Window. Easily change any style to use
the alternate tuning that you want.
In this discussion, we’ll be referring to DADGAD tuning, a Popular alternate tuning. The same reasoning applies to
all of the other alternate tunings available.
There are 4 ways you can use Band-in-a-Box playing in DADGAD (or any alternate) tunings.
1. See any Melody (or Soloist track) displayed in DADGAD tuning. This will display on the guitar fretboard,
tab, and printout.
2. See guitar parts (chording etc.) in DADGAD tuning, using correct chord shapes. For this, choose a style
that has DADGAD tuning, and view the guitar part.
3. Use the Guitar Tutor, to view DADGAD chording for any style.
4. View guitar chord diagrams in DADGAD tuning, by setting the Notation Options – Guitar Chord to
“DADGAD.”
To see the guitar neck displayed in DADGAD, choose Melody | Track Type | Guitar – DADGAD Tuning. When
you open up the guitar fretboard and choose the Melody track, you’ll see the DADGAD tuning.