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SpiderCapoTuningsCompendium

Thereare63possibletuningsateachfretoftheguitar.Eachfret
offersnew,uniquetuningpossibilities.Calculatinguptothe15th
fretthatequals945possibletuningswithouttouchingatuning
peg!
Verymuchroomforindividualselection,taste,sound,and
identity.

Thetuningsareshownfromthelowest,bass,6thstringE,
tothehighest,treble,1ststringE.Likethis:
[6th,5th,4th,3rd,2nd,1st].Example:[000400]isSpiderCapoat4thfret
andonly3rdstring,G,isdepressed.
So,thenumbercorrespondstothefretatwhichtheSpiderCapois
applied.

Herearesomeselectionsinusebyindividuals.Wewanttoadd
yours!
Pleasedropanemailto:spidercapo@gmail.com!

[111011]forplayinginEb
[001100]Peter,Emajor7,JustLikeaWoman
[110011]forplayinginBb,F
[100011]MartinBlanes,FartherWithin.
[220022]forF#PhrygianorSpanishsound
[220002]variationofabove
[022200]DADGADupastep
[022222]dropDtuningupastep.
[002200]Peter:for,WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps
[224442]DanUttendorfer:[fullcapo2ndfret=DADGADup[2]frets].
Original,"I'veNeverBeentheGett'inKind"
[330033]MikeWebb,ChristmasTABSongbook
[330033]openGtuning
[330003]variationofabove
[003330]StaffanSvahn
[335533]AaronLennox,"ClawHammer"Banjotuning.Fullcapo3rd
fret
[400040]DougYoung,sussoundAcousticGuitarMagazineReview

[000400]DougYoung,DropCTuningAcousticGuitarMagazine
Review
[005505]Aminortuning
[555505]TCophony,SongonSpiderCapowebsite.
[0600066]FredHandwith6thStringdroppedtoD
000707]PatrickWoods.StormWatch.Hisguitaristunedin
DADGAD![thisopensupanother945tunings]
[770707]BminorFirebirdSuite
[070077]Jos Torres. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a20SYV1Q_aU
[888088]Peter:KalimbaTuning
[00000,10]DavidChiapetta,DPedal

Ofcourse,Icouldlistmathematicallyaswellforthosewhowantalong
listoftunings.Herewellgetyoustartedatthe1stfret:
[100000],[010000],[001000],[000100],[000010],[000001],
110000],[011000],[001100],[000110],[000011],[101000],
[010100],[001010],[000101],[100100],[010010],[001001],
[100010],[0100001],[100001],[111000],[011100],[001110],
000111],[101100],[010110],[001011],[110100],[010110],
[001101],[100011],[110001],[101010],[010101],[111100],
[011110],[001111],101110],[010111],[110110],[011011],
[111010],[011101],[110011],[111110],[011111],[101111],
[110111],[111011],[111101],[111110],..Whew,Ithinkyouget
theideahere.Yep,thereare945ofthem,andanyoneofthemmaybe
yours!

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