Dog Gone on #Trey and Open Tuning

Not much in the hopper this evening, except something I meant to link to a few days ago. The Dog Gone Blog has a nice post up on Trey’s use of open tuning:

“Time Turns Elastic” is the next step in this compositional technique. Pushing forward in new directions, Trey landed on a very obscure tuning in which to compose his newest masterpiece. “TTE” is written in ‘open C6′ tuning (C-G-C-E-A-C), which sounds exactly as complex as it is. Without going into the specifics, this tuning allows for a wide variety of chord arrangements, using open strings. These interesting chord voicings can be heard all throughout the song, especially in the solo acoustic version (click here to watch the video). But, few realize how challenging, and how forward-thinking this new composition is, and have dismissed it for whatever reason.

I’d certainly like to see Trey run through TTE on Tuesday, although I think it’s unlikely to happen.