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One of the coolest things you can find on Brazilian music is a seven strings guitar. The range of those guitars is amazing. They get really low and can play some interesting bass lines. I was one of those guys who would wish to have a seven strings guitar but at the same time I don’t like to complicate things too much. So I thought how it would be to tune down my six strings guitar to get the range of a seven strings. That is how I ended up with the tuning CGDGBE. It works like a charm. You can play all those low bass lines known as baixarias from a seven strings while playing the normal stuff you already know on the six. In order to get used to this alternative guitar tuning let’s play a couple of exercises. If you pay attention there is not much difference with the standard tuning. Only the sixth and fifth strings. We will start by playing the C major scale on the first position.
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Now let’s extend it.
Next is the G major scale in first position.
And the G major scale extended.
This article comes from the book “KEYS TO BRAZILIAN GUITAR by Fernando Perez”.