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Lesson 5: 1-5-8 Tuning, Part B
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Let's try this one.
Let's do into the whole.
Let me try it again.
Oh, it likes that one better.
Oh, it likes that a lot.
Now what I did?
I went to the 5th fret, but, uh-oh, this instrument has an extra fret.
This one didn't have that one right in here.
This has a first fret, a 1 and a half fret, and the second fret, and then the third fret.
So the 4th fret in this instrument is one past my markers.
In this instrument, the 4th fret is where I put the marker.
I built this one so I know where it went.
Okay.
I plucked and it went the wrong direction.
Not a crisis.
Alright.
Now I need to make my melody string match.
Now I'm gonna choose the 158 tuning that I did before.
Little quiz.
Where did I go on the bass string to get that one to match?
If you wanna count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 1, 1a half, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a half, 7.
That's where I went.
I made it match at the 7th fret.
The other place I could do it is at the 3rd fret on the middle string.
So that happened pretty quick, didn't it?
The more you do it, the easier it becomes, the more your ear gets attuned to what you're looking for.
Now that one got tuned to itself.
Let's see about this one.
Oh, who would really like that pitch?
Yeah.
It just comes alive.
These are way far away, aren't they?
I went too far.
So when I go too far, my suggestion is to tune up to a note rather than tune down to a note.
Now those are far away.
Aren't they?
Does this sound a lot a lot higher than you expect?
Now I've got these 2 that are right next to each other.
I don't have to touch anything else.
I just have to make these 2 matter.
This is a Ginger from Xpadden, and it was built to be played in g.
So it really likes being here, and the tone just comes alive when I'm at this higher pitch.
And I just gave away one of my clues I was going to ask you a minute ago.
If you remember you might win the prize.
Now let's look at this one and let's whoo into the hole.
La la.
There it is.
Now on this instrument, there is a 0 fret, which we are not gonna count when we count how many frets were going up in order to find our tuning place.
That 0 fret is in front of the knot to make sure the string stops vibrating right here.
So one, 1a half, 2, 3, 4.
Just a little bit higher.
Alright.
Now melody string.
I can go to the 7th fret or the 3rd fret in the middle.
So what we've done is tune all of these to themselves.
For this lesson, Steve chose to tune a dulcimer with only 3 strings.
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