Ideas from Magazine Reviews 1. Put Woodies G-Band on first string, 8th fret. Finger pick ideas based around a C Minor Chord shape at the third fret. Credit: Total Guitar 2. Put G-Band on bottom string, 5th fret and play an A Minor/C Major/D Major with the low A unison ot enrich the chords. Credit: Traditional Music Maker 3. Put G-Band on the bottom string, 3rd fret. Drop-tune first string to D. With GADGBD new riffs and patterns came together surprisingly quickly. Credit: Total Guitar Ideas from Users 1. You can easily play a sustained bottom A which is popular with rock guitarists without needing long stretches. Credit: Jimi Savage 2.
Place the G-Band on the third fret, bottom string (G note). Credit: Woodie 3. Fit Woodies G-Band to the top E string at the third fret then think "Albert Lee" & country trills. Credit: Woodie More ideas from users I have tried: Take the G-Band II and put it on the 6th & 5th string, 2nd fret then put the G-Band I on the 6th string 3rd fret to create an open G6 chord. Then you can solo to your hearts content which a drone of G voices underneath. this can sound very Middle Eastern. Credit: Jimi Savage One of the tricks that I thought was a lot of fun was placing the 2-stringer on the third fret of the A and E strings while using the regular model on the 8th fret of the high E. Makes for a lot of interesting playing in the key of C - almost like turning the guitar into a deluxe Appalachian dulcimer. Credit: Dave Hodge guitarnoise.com (USA) And now for something completely different! I play Indian classical music on guitar and to do this I tune the guitar strings to different tunings, depending on the raga. I generally use the key of D as the tone base so one tuning might be DGDGDD low to high. I intend to place the G-Band on the 12th fret of the 1st string thus giving the guitar a chikari string (the alternative of building a small nut on the 12th fret for the 1st string restricts the guitars use). The G-Band II would allow me to have a high 5th as well (after altering the tuning). What about a G-band that holds down the 4th and 5th strings? Credit: John Hogg Have you any ideas that you would like to share with us? We'd love to hear from you. Please email us at woodie@woodiesgband.co.uk
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