mr dave

i think it's because you pretty much covered all the bases as to why it happens with your first reply hehe.

i noticed the discrepancy myself a while back when i tried learning piano. the whole idea of the 'middle C' and how my father's traditional method of considering notes 'do re mi fa so la ti' where 'do' is 'C', as opposed to 'A B C D E F G' made me recognize that E wasn't the universal root even though it's the impression guitars give you.

it's one of the reasons i keep a guitar tuned to C. i'm basically trying to unlearn the idea of chords being A B C etc. and just knowing them as shapes 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. where a guitar is traditionally played with E as the dominant chord, that shape becomes 1st, but with the guitar tuned down to C that 1st chord shape comes out as the universal 'do'. plus tuning down to C sounds awesome hehe

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