April 11ths
4/11/2020 My version of April from Brand X Product (in D, not F) 4/11/2025 Every once in awhile I'll re-tune one of the basses and noodle around on it for ideas. The current tuning is “Drop 31” (E-G#-D-F#). I discovered that you can play wave-like patterns across the fingerboard resulting in 4ths, 5ths, and octaves and makes for an interesting mysterious harmonic progression. AI is also in the mix because I asked a large language model to create a haiku about waves and I used some of the results for lyrics. The tunings are unique in that you come up with things you wouldn't arrive at in standard tuning because you reject things out of hand as being "wrong". The title is borrowed from Rebecca Solnit's book, and was in the LLM results from "create a haiku about waves". All the tunings have unique characteristics but you have to explore them. You can retune a guitar similarly and leave the top two strings as they are. It's essentially an E7 tuning. ...
