"Improvisation in Chicago Tuning" Workshop by Tim May, TGG12 - Tenor Guitar Gathering 2022 

I have a tenor guitar and a tenor banjo, both tuned DGBE Chicago style, so was glad to find this video. ❤

I just getting into this tenor guitar thing, so Im all ears!! Thank you!!

thank you for posting this.

Funny how the internet works. I ended up here because I recently "converted" a 5 string banjo to a four string "Chicago" tuned banjo. I didn't know that there was such a thing as a tenor guitar, but I definitely want to get one. Doing what I did with my banjo has opened up a whole new avenue in music making for me, and I'd like to see what happens with a four string guitar. Any suggestions on where to find one?

Some great tips. And I hope there are some younger players too. Those audience guys all look like me.

So, can somebody explain to me why it makes sense to have a tenor guitar tuned this way rather than muting the low E and A and just playing the top 4 strings of a standard tuning 6 string when you want these sounds, and still having those strings available for when you want them? I get that for an accomplished guitar player who wants something that sounds like a banjo, and who has a tenor banjo fall into their lap, this tuning would let most of their scales and skills map over seamlessly, but for me as a pretty mediocre guitarist who also has a couple of mandolins and an Irish bouzouki and a banjo which I also play pretty marginally at best, a big part of the allure for me of an instrument tuned in 4ths or sawmill tuning is how different things just naturally fall out when you’re noodling around, and some kinds of riffs and patterns just fall more easily under your hand with some of those tunings. Also, my attention drifted a bit in the middle, but am I correct in understanding that the presenter is basically just introducing the group to pentatonic scales?

The Colombian Tiple has the same tuning.

If you save up someday you’ll be afford those extra two strings lol