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by khqc 933 days ago
Were you able to transfer some of what you learned back to standard tuning or did you never go back?
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I never went back. But it still helped me for the standard tuning(mostly for playing other people songs).

When playing in standard tuning I see 6 string guitar as two parts a 4 lower string and 2 higher string that are offset half tone.

So I usually end-up with less movement in the standard tuning as I usually just stay on either those 4 lower or 2 higher strings depending on which note I've started.

Jumping between those two sections is not that much of a problem but I have to do it consciously.

But it still a lot better then just learning each scale and key separately! I just see no need for standard tuning in my playing and probably could get better at this "section jump" if I had used it more.