![]() ![]() I defended my thesis and was soon asked to teach 2 engineering courses at CU. “After teaching rock and ice climbing for 2 years, I decided to go back to grad school and get a Masters in Civil Engineering. LES: One of things that truly surprised me to read that you were an engineering professor at CU Boulder. That $10 guitar had a profound impact, not only on my life, but also on the life of my friends. As adults, the three of us make our livings playing music. It was the glue of our friendship and our faith. We would play Bob Dylan covers at the local coffee shop, and talk for hours about song lyrics. In high school I spent a lot of time learning songs I loved, and jamming with my two best friends, Tim & Jonah. Music has always been a passion, and something that I have loved doing, and having fun has always been my goal. Of course the downside is that I have plenty of bad habits that would make a classically trained musician cringe. I’m grateful that I never had formal training in the sense that my music developed organically. My goal became to know music theory well enough that I could “break the rules” in every song I wrote. I made up my own guitar theory, which I called “Trace’s seven chord theory.” When I took a music theory class in college I realized that I hadn’t discovered anything new. I never knew the “proper” way of learning, so I was free to think outside the box. Since guitar lessons were out of the question, I dove into learning guitar on my own. My brother’s love of heavy metal meant that we spent our time learning Metallica songs that we still jam out to when we are together. I was a frugal kid, and $10 seemed like a lot of money. TB: Guitar playing began as my brother’s idea, and he had to work hard to convince me to spend this tiny sum of money on a guitar. Looking back, how do you think that not being able to afford guitar lessons affected the development of your style and level of craft? ![]() I later heard you tell that you couldn’t afford formal lessons and you just had to figure it out for yourselves. That always makes me laugh – because it proves an old proverb “Once you begin the weaving, God furnishes the skein.” and the idea of not despising small beginnings. LES: Trace, you have a well told story about how you and your brother came to buy your first guitar when you were 10 or 11– a shared purchase for a vast $10 and got a magazine teaching how to play Metallica songs. I am grateful for his generosity and am delighted to share this with Cultivating readers. Trace remains not only one of my very favourite musicians, but also one of my favourite interviews. So, here are popular tunes in Celtic Tuning listed for you! You can find the tab links below every song and learn how to play every song.The following is an unreleased interview with Trace Bundy that I made with him a little while ago. However, it is also important to study and know the milestones of a particular tuning setup and the famous tunes and guitarists who used it. It is great to experiment with a new tuning setup by yourself and get to know it by improvising. If you haven’t tried this setup yet, please take the chance to meet with the inspiring world of it. You get to notice it by practicing and listening to the songs composed in DADGAD. Celtic Tuning was used by many musicians, especially in the 60s folk era, and you can find it in unusual genres or less-known singer-songwriters’ music.Ĭeltic Tuning has a distinctive and magical sound. ![]() ![]() Changing the tuning setup, we used to can be a trigger for your creativity and make you write new and unique tunes in a short time.ĭADGAD, also known as Celtic Tuning, is another famous alternate setup guitar players like to experiment with. No matter how often you exercise, you might get the same feeling. We guitar players sometimes can be stuck in a loop regarding creativity and playability. Changing the usual relations and sounds between strings might give you another perspective on your instrument. Tuning your guitar to alternate tuning setups can open new doors for any guitar player. ![]()
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