Richard Thompson Acoustic Guitar Lesson - Get the Most Out of Alternate Tunings | ELIXIR Strings

Guitar legend Richard Thompson demonstrates how to get a richer, fuller sound out of your guitar using alternate tunings and ELIXIR Strings.
Watch and learn as this Fairport Convention icon performs licks and chords in DADGAD, as well as some hybrid picking virtuosity in open C major 9 tuning - CGDGBE - while playing an excerpt from his 1991 classic, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
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[@henry1237]

That cheeky smile at the end after rocking out VBL blew my mind! Legend.

[@Stringman1950]

RT is fabulous, ridiculously underrated and one of the greats.

[@helethead]

He might not be well known to the masses, he is definitely not underrated to anyone who knows of him.

[@patrickmorgan4006]

Absolutely!

[@markknopflerisnot]

As Monkeydog says, not at all underrated...generally regarded by players all around the world as a folking genius

[@37Dionysos]

Thanks! Hell, you get 100 guitar lessons and a new idea of the whole instrument just by watching his shows!

[@Ironjack53]

listen to RT all day ,magnetic voice and supreme guitar playing = bloody genius .great to see tips from the master ,even if it is an advertisment

[@glennwiggins4044]

Rated one of the top 20 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine. Amen to that!

[@AnnaGibson23]

I feel so privileged to have seen this. Thank you, maestro.

[@kennewton6626]

Anyone who plays guitar, any style, ought to know this is like getting a free tennis lesson from Serena Williams. Thanks, Richard, and Elixir Strings.

[@ElixirStringsMedia]

Thanks for watching Ken!

[@jonathanh8187]

Perfect metaphor.

[@JayMon39]

Suspend your praise of this guy fort a second and if you are a musician, pay attention to the theory he is explaining for a second. Jesus. Absolutely amazing.

[@bluesriot2]

thank you so much Richard for sharing a bit of your tremendous and legendary musical wisdom , and i agree those elixers are hot stuff

[@CameronCooper]

I served him in the pub I used to work in last year. Richard you're welcome to get in touch.

[@bubbatheking9225]

Richard, Hello from Idaho. Come visit sometime and thank you for the free lesson! Wow!!!!

[@johngibbs799]

Thank you, Richard!!! 🤠

[@volkerke5315]

I take my hat off to you, sir! Greetings from Germany

[@arrowspellets2728]

Sounded Awesome! I always listen to wisdom!! Thank you!!!

[@timmcgurl]

Richard also uses the CGDGBE tuning when he sings Sandy Denny's classic masterpiece Who Knows Where The Time Goes. With the standard DGBE, he plays a standard position D Major on the Chorus Who Knows, then he wraps his thumb on the 2nd-Fret to add the Low D for the D bass for a fuller D chord. Then Where The Time Goes, he'll hit the wide open Low C and the two fingers of the first part of a standard C chord, without a 3rd finger on the 3rd fret, cause it's not C but Bb, with the A string tuned down to Open G.

[@robhead22]

Thank you!

[@ulrichmetz2968]

Thanks Richard, symphatic! Uli

[@ianryan5727]

Thanks!

[@Adamfront]

Very interesting.

[@xyzcomp08]

I use this tuning for VBL and it makes it easy and fun, but adds a extra melancholy to the song you can't get in standard tuning.

[@vibraband]

A kind genius!

[@terryprohaska]

The tuning he uses on "Vincent Black Lightning" is often referred to by slack key players as "C Wahine" tuning!!

[@Nono1234x]

After 50 years of experience: Santa Cruz Prabolics are the real thing. Forget about the rest!😘

[@sameash2990]

The open C tuning is really good for playing lute music.

[@francesandpeterannear5010]

A really great guitar player and communicator. Thank you. Is it just me or is the soundtrack distorting?

[@ElixirStringsMedia]

Thanks, we'll check out the video quality, thanks for your comment!

[@danielpodell6806]

20,922,789,888,000

[@maxcuthbert100]

I'm fairly sure CGDGBE was originally from Hawaiin slack key guitarists .

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

Max Cuthbert - funny you should say that because when he said "this gives you a G6 tuning" I thought - hey the ukulele is in C6/Am7 and it is also possible to create fantastic chords using one finger - and almost impossible to make a bad sound!! I tune mine with a low G which gives me a linear (as opposed to the more usual re-entrant tuning) tuning :G C E A. I've noticed that I can finger pick a lot of RT's songs - Down Where The drunkards Roll/ Dimming of the Day and they sound pretty good using the same chords as RT uses - perhaps the similar tunings are why it works??

[@user-ih9dg3uz5y]

fuck I tried this and broke two strings

[@pierre-de-standing]

Those tunings are going down, breaking strings changing to them should not happen. Going back up again however, be careful, though I've never had that problem and I often go from standard to CGCGCD and back again several times no problem. I use 13-56 Elixir phosphor bronze.