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Thanks! I saw this tuning not long ago and blew me away, that is why I was wondering on learning on mirrored 4ths instead of MR. But given the model and string that I have available, I'll stick to classic or MR at most.
I have never tried the 4th's tuning on a 10 string because the prevailing wisdom is that you
do not get the same chord variety. So I guess that the notes are there but ergonomically it
does not work...
The Stick police might come after me for saying this
but if you are in "Classic" tuning
you can shift the melody side down to Matched Reciprocal" very easily as the bass side
will remain the same. There might be a slight intonation issue but at least you can get the
sense of what the two different tunings are like because they are so close. I know it is completely a subjective thing, so I cannot say with a good conscious that MR is better than Classic but i have tried every tuning except the 'Duel Bass" one and I always come back to MR. And that was after two years of Baritone Melody...
One discovers that the tunings on the Stick are essentially similar, even Baritone Melody is the same in that the shapes one uses to get the chords and scales are the same. It is rather, the spacing between the hands that is different. So Baritone Melody, for example, the string set on the "melody" side is tuned down (baritone) and the string gage is stepped down as well but because the tonality of the whole melody side being lower the playing position of the two hands tends to be further apart; the right hand moving
up the fretboard toward the bridge to find the sweet spot.. It is the groove tuning preferred by Greg Howard who I believe invented the Baritone Melody tuning through trial and error, or maybe just because he is a very smart person
...
With Classic, because the tuning is higher the right hand
tends to come down the fretboard and sometimes there is a clash between the hands. Matched Reciprocal is the third bowl of porridge in my humble opinion
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Your Pollycarbonate Stick can accommodate any of the three with a little tweaking
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The Stick was made for tweaking
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