Frank Gambale demonstrates alternate tuning

Guitar fusion legend Frank Gambale demonstrates the alternate tuning on his guitar's second neck by playing a short solo. Performed at the Baked Potato in Hollywood on September 14th, 2006.

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[Genemusic111]

you mean samson with his hair giving him strength?

[gambaleecar]

mr. gambale my repects!

[Frisbieinstein]

Very pretty.

[zackypooofillinois]

@Guitareben the guitar is in a different tuning so he is able to play chords and such that aren't properly available in standard tuning.

[Zepster77]

@Zolier oh aren't you clever..... not

[fishybishbash]

Very pretty. Reminds of 'Selling England By the Pound ' era Genesis

[Zolier]

@danielworks

His tuning is low to high I-A-M-G-A-Y

I'm not sure though..

[dennoow]

He tuned his guitar different. He tuned it up a perfect 4th so the tuning is ADGCEA instead of EADGBE. It's kind of similar to a baritone guitar but not quite.

[Guitareben]

excuse my stupidity, but what has this guy done different?

[snoognz]

Wow, that had me spellbound, can't believe how much he has contributed to the world of guitar music yet he gets so little recognition back. He has really found something special with his new tuning setup it makes the guitar sound more like an enchanting harp.

[pointpurple]

Beautiful.

[dennoow]

Well if you retune your regular strings it will yeah. I did it on my old guitar, you take a 0.10 set A, D, G and B string, and then a 0.09 set D and G string for the top two strings. It works very well! The main advantage is that it's all a 4th higher and the tones are closer together. It's a lot clearer, no muddy sounding tones so it's a big help in your chordal playing :) I don't use it much I must say though!