Hi, my name is Guus Dielissen and I'm a fingerstyle guitarist from the Netherlands. On this channel I post fingerstyle guitar related content, such as covers of popular songs!
Guus, I have to ask... how do you decide the best tuning for your arrangements? It is a matter using an open tuning and matching the opening tuning with the key to give you as many open notes as possible? Or is it more about just tuning each individual string in a way that allows the piece to be played as easily as possible? It'd mean the absolute world to me if you could provide a detailed breakdown for how exactly you determine what tuning is best fit for your arrangements. Last week I composed my own song in DA#DGCE simply because it gave me a lot of open notes and put all the notes closer together. On the other hand, I recently transcribed "I Had Some Help" by Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen and used standard tuning since the song's key (C major) gave me a lot of open notes; C A G E and D are open chords so this makes sense. I understand that there's no correct way to play something, but there are more optimal ways to arrange songs for playability. Honestly any insight would be amazing! Thank you!
the banned riff is the intro. you're playing an original fingerstyle arrangement that incorporates the vocal melodies into your performance. That's not the forbidden riff. It's forbidden riff adjacent but I think any guitar store would be fine with you doing this once you got past the intro.
