I love this. I have the red WE tenor which I tuned to guitar intervals because I found it tricky to wrap my head around 5ths, and I'm marginally better at guitar. Two days ago I retuned to 5ths, determined to give it another go. The way Warren does Jubilee and Higgs Boson was the reason I got the tenor. Watching you play is really going to help. Thanks!
Since guitarists playing in bands rarely play all 6 strings at once, a tenor guitar could easily replace a 6 string in those situations. And with alternate tunings, maybe be better. I’m thinking power chords and line cliches.
I play a tenor to write all my current music on. I started with a normal guitar than got into ukulele and found the style / chords and simplicity of less strings more fun and it allowed me to write better songs not focusing on so much so I use a tenor guitar no not as a mandolin or banjo player (yuck can’t stand how those instruments sound ) but as a guitarist who wants minimalism.
I am complete noob with this type of guitars. Is it like an Ukulele from a chords point of view? Is it easier to learn than a standard guitar? Can you learn this instrument yourself, because iI don't think there is a teacher near my place for this...
I have one and taught myself to play, there’s less resources online however if you’re teaching yourself. I already knew some standard guitar so that made it easier for me to pick one of these up and teach myself.
There a lot of tunings possible. I tune mine in fifths like a violin/viola like DGAE of CGDA. Same tunings as a mandolin with I play. But You can use guitar tunings like the top four strings DGBE (capo on the fifth fret gives you ukulele tuning GCEA) or EADG. Also open tunings or ukulele, it's all possible. This is a very good string guide eastwoodguitars.com/blogs/news/warren-ellis-series-alternate-tunings-string-guide
I have built 2 of these guitars. One is tuned as a baritone ukulele (highest 4 strings of a regular guitar), and the other as a baritone guitar (b, f#, d, e). The middle 4 strings of a regular guitar. That’s tuned in 4ths. One has a 22 3/4 scale length, the other has a 24 3/4. Check out my RU-vid channel.
@@Pluck.play1992it’s not cool they don’t even acknowledge “Chicago tuning” aka dgbe aka baritone ukulele tuning for uke players in their string and tuning list very violin mandolin centric and I’ve seen a lot of ukulele players get a tenor because they can get a guitar sound while playing ukulele chord shapes.
