Rllink
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When sitting by yourself, does anybody just tune a string to something that sounds good, then tune the rest of the strings to that string, and then just play it? Over the holidays I've been playing a bit down in the basement just myself, and I've not been using a tuner. It is actually kind of different. Several times I've just taken a string and tuned it to whatever I thought sounded good with my voice, then tuned the others to that. I have no idea if it is in tune with anything but itself. Yesterday I went down to play a song that I found in the key of C, but the starting note to the song is a G. So I just tuned the second string third fret at G to my voice and tuned everything off of that. It really worked well. Instead of trying to sing to my accompaniment, I was accompanying my voice. I'm going to experiment with it more and see what I can do with it.