November 2009 \ Premier Clinic \ Acoustic & Fingerstyle \ Lute Tuning: Tackling the World’s Oldest Tuning

Lute Tuning: Tackling the World’s Oldest Tuning

Joe Bennett

Lute tuning is one of the oldest known tunings; learn how to do it, and a song that uses it.


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‘Beechen Cliff’
Here, I’ve created a cascading effect known as ‘harping’ using beautiful open harmonics – the riff remains the same throughout the first section; only the bass note changes, so do take time to master the technique before moving on. The second section uses more straightforward techniques, where open strings ring on against fretted notes to create the melody, before returning to the first section. The piece finishes on two high harmonics at the fifth fret.

Listen to an audio track of the song

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chris
on 10/26/2009
add .mp3 to the filename of the second chords clip and the song, they didn't initially work for me.



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