The Orkney Companion
The Orkney Companion, by Topher Gayle, is a 58-page book just bursting at the seams with information for guitarists learning the beautiful Orkney tuning (C-G-D-G-C-D).
The book features:
- over 600 chord voicings organized by key (click here to see a sample chord page)
- tips for the DADGAD guitarist looking for something new
- eight tunes in TAB and score with chord grids
- four useful scale fingerings
- tips on capo use in Orkney
- more! (Click here to see entire Table of Contents)
A page of easy, useful Orkney chords can be downloaded for free right here (pdf format).
The following wonderful artists use Orkney tuning. Check out their websites!
- Steve Baughman - Steve is one of the planet's most enthusiastic Orkney evangelists, with many Orkney tunes on his recordings
- Bill Hammond - You can hear Orkney on his tunes Mark's Motorbike, Hector the Hero, and If I Gave You
- Chris Proctor - Chris writes philosophically about alternate tunings in general and Orkney tuning in particular
- Mark Hanson - Here's an instructional article about Orkney tuning by Mark Hanson in FRETS magazine.
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