Careless Whisper on One Guitar (Alex Misko)
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange commenters cite it as a concrete example of a guitarist retuning mid-performance, alongside other players who use the technique.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What it is
A solo fingerstyle guitar arrangement of George Michael's "Careless Whisper" performed by Alexandr Misko. The performance uses altered tunings and retunes the guitar mid-song, and the tab is sold on his shop.
What people said
Recommends Jere Kupari · 2020-05 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Simulate "modern pop sounds" on grand piano?”
When you wrote that piano always sounds like a classical instrument, I immediately thought of Iiro Rantala . He, I think, always sounds very pop like, or non classical - even when playing classical music! Rantala also does a lot of percussive stuff. He solves the volume problem mentioned by hirschme by playing dampened strings, or playing the strings directly with his fingers inside the piano ( string piano [LINK] ). But then you have the problem of reaching the keys at the same time. Ok, Iiro Rantala didn't invent prepared piano [LINK] , but when combined to his pop like jazz style, the results are interesting. I will pick a couple of examples from Tunteiden ilta radio/video stream show [LI
Recommends MMazzon · 2021-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Are there pieces that require retuning an instrument mid-performance?”
I'm not aware of classical music pieces that require some occasional retuning, but if they exist I suspect they are written specifically for a particular virtuoso performer who can pull it off reliably every time. On the other hand, some virtuoso performers do exist, who among other things take advantage of the possibilities offered by the instrument's tuning machines. One example is this: A similarly gifted guitarist, Luca Stricagnoli, occasionally does something like that, but I couldn't promptly find an example. And while this isn't strictly an answer to your question, but to give an idea of what some people can do, I once saw Vishwa Mohan Bhatt change a broken string in the middle of a l
Cites Richiban · 2022-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Are there pieces that require retuning an instrument mid-performance?”
This is becoming more common in guitar as well, with Alexandr Misko (e.g. in Careless Whisper [this video] ), Jon Gomm (e.g. in Passionflower [LINK] ) and Mike Dawes all making use of this technique (most use equipment to aid in the tuning; Jon Gomm doesn't). Charles Berthoud also does it on bass (e.g. [LINK] ).