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CGDGCB Bright C - Guitar tuning, chords & scales

Description - Bright C

Daniel Padim’s tuning, It is amazing sound.

Bright C Tuning

Dive into the 'Bright C' tuning, a captivating arrangement popularized by Daniel Padim, renowned for its 'amazing sound'. This tuning creates an open and resonant soundscape, offering a unique sonic palette for exploration. It's built around a C root with open intervals that suggest both major 7th and 9th qualities, creating a rich harmonic foundation.

Verbal Analysis

The 'Bright C' tuning lives up to its name, immediately presenting a bright, open, and somewhat ethereal quality. The low C and G provide a strong, deep foundation, while the upper strings open up into an inviting, almost suspended harmonic landscape. The open strings resonate beautifully together, creating a sense of spaciousness and complexity. It's a tuning that encourages melodic playing and chordal experimentation, often lending itself to ambient, fingerstyle, or modern progressive genres. The overall feel is one of lush harmony with a subtle tension provided by the major 7th, making it excellent for evocative and atmospheric compositions.

Technical Analysis

This tuning sets your guitar's open strings to C2 G2 D3 G3 C4 B3. Analysing the intervals, we find:

  • The low C2 (6th string) and G2 (5th string) establish a powerful perfect fifth.
  • The 4th string D3 introduces a major ninth (from C) or a perfect fourth (from G), adding harmonic tension and interest.
  • The 3rd string G3 echoes the 5th string, reinforcing the perfect fifth and providing a strong, resonant drone.
  • The 2nd string C4 brings back the root an octave higher, completing a strong C major triad feel (C-G-C).
  • The 1st string B3 is a major seventh from the root C, creating a clear Cmaj7 quality.

Combined, the open strings (C, G, D, G, C, B) form a Cmaj7(add9) chord, notably *without* the major third (E). This absence of the third contributes to its open, bright, and slightly ambiguous or suspended character, allowing it to fit into various harmonic contexts.

Chordal Implications:

  • Open Chords: The open tuning itself forms a Cmaj7(add9) (no 3rd), providing an immediate rich open chord. Simple barres across certain frets will yield full, resonant voicings, especially on the lower strings where the C-G-D-G configuration offers strong power chord and suspended voicing possibilities.
  • Power Chords: The low C-G and G-D-G relationships make it exceptionally easy to craft powerful open or barred fifth chords, ideal for rock or drone-based music.
  • Melodic Potential: The unique intervals, especially the D on the 4th string and the B on the 1st string, create interesting melodic opportunities and drone possibilities over the C root.
  • Fingerstyle: This tuning is highly adaptable for fingerstyle, allowing for rich arpeggios and interwoven melodies where the open string harmonies can ring out. The B3 on the high string adds a beautiful upper extension to C-based harmonies.

How to Tune Your Guitar to Bright C

To achieve the Bright C tuning, follow these steps from the standard EADGBe tuning:

  • 6th String (Low E): Tune down 4 semitones from E2 to C2. (Note: This is a significant drop. Consider a heavier gauge string if you prefer higher tension and less slack.)
  • 5th String (A): Tune down 2 semitones from A2 to G2.
  • 4th String (D): Keep as is; no change from D3.
  • 3rd String (G): Keep as is; no change from G3.
  • 2nd String (B): Tune up 1 semitone from B3 to C4.
  • 1st String (High E): Tune down 5 semitones from E4 to B3. (Warning: This is a substantial drop, exceeding the recommended limit for standard gauges. A heavier gauge string is strongly advised for optimal tension and playability.)


Here are the target notes for each string:

  • String 6: C2
  • String 5: G2
  • String 4: D3
  • String 3: G3
  • String 2: C4
  • String 1: B3

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