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Join guitarist Charlie Starr as he provides a mini-lesson on one of his favorite alternate tunings: Csus2. He explains which strings to tune down and which to tune up to get this beautiful, droning, sitar-like quality on your acoustic guitar.

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00:00It was taught to me by a good friend named Levi Lowry.
00:02I was sitting next to him once and he played, he strummed it, he grabbed a second guitar and he
00:07strummed it.
00:08And I said, what the hell is the tuning that you're in?
00:10And he said, well, it's this weird C tuning.
00:13And basically, you take your standard tuned guitar.
00:19So now you're down to G with the A.
00:22Then you go down to C with the D string.
00:28And then you go down to C with the low E string.
00:37Which is way, way down there.
00:39You're going to want to have at least medium gauge strings on your acoustic or else it may start sounding
00:45like a mousetrap.
00:47You go up with the B string, a half step.
00:56And then you go down to D with the high E string.
01:13So, it's almost like a sitar.
01:15You go down to C with the A.
01:15Let's see.
01:16What do?
01:16How do?
01:16How do you feel?

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