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Lesson 4: 1-5-8 Tuning, Part A
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The other common tuning that a lot of people use is a 1 5 8 tuning.
There are 7 steps in the scale before the note repeats, and that top one is called the octave for 8.
So 123-456-78.
Oh, I need to make this one come up.
How do I know how far to go?
I have two choices.
The 7th fret on the bass string.
Is one way I'm gonna pluck and loosen.
The other way is to go to the middle string at the 3rd fret.
And now my scale starts at 0 and goes to 7.
And that's that old Joe Clark scale.
Well, there I told you.
I promised I was gonna break a string sometime.
I just broke it.
That was a tired string and I'm going to have to replace it.
But for right now it demonstrated that when I tuned I could tune it.
And I didn't cry when I broke the string.
I was surprised and it did flap across my finger, but let's just check no blood no foul.
I'll have to remove that and replace it.
I'm not going to do that now because what we're doing is talking about tuning.
I made my instrument tune to itself.
Now let's try this on the other instruments.
Don't worry. If you break a string, you can always get another. In this video, Steve teaches the traditional method of "hooing into the hole," the way dulcimers were tuned before we had batteries for tuners or tuning forks. Then he demonstrates how to tune the strings to 1-5-5 intervals.
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