Breaking Music Rules

[zeeman]

Question of the day, is it okay to create and play your own notes and chords on guitars, for e.g in the standard tuning E-A-D-G-B-E, I play 2nd and 4 fret of low E and high E which makes 'F#, F#, G#, G#'. So are these tabs ok to play ?

Secondly, can we play guitar without plectrum, like strum with fingers ??? I know I might be breaking rules.

[stevie21]

Do anything whatsoever that you like the sound of. Keef Richards doesn't use the standard "EAD" tuning and he's done alright for himself.
Most of Hendrix's work deviated from the set of notes that you'd expect him to be working with. (I'm trying not to use the phrase "pentatonic scale" hahah!!)

Also, you can *strum* with your fingers but might you get big blisters. Again, do what pleases you.

[mattfox]

Nick Drake must be the king of inventing his own tunings!

http://www.algonet.se/~iguana/DRAKE/tunings.html

12 tunings for 37 songs... !

[simsfreq]

Breaking rules? Isn't that what being creative's all about? :)

[zeeman]

Oh cheers guys, thankyou so much. I'm relaxed now :)

[Chapel]

NO NO NO. If you break the rules, the lads call round and confiscate your fingers. Then you die in a damp bedsit, and go to hell.

 

It's in the bible.