To achieve this tuning easily just drop your guitar on the floor

You are correct that the guitar, all fretted instruments actually, are imperfect. It is in fact impossible for a fretted instrument to be perfectly in tune everywhere on the neck at the same time. If you want to see how the frets need to be installed in order to be in perfect tune everywhere, search "microtonal guitar". It's nuts. There is a better way. I learned this long ago from my instructor at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Your guitar is in tune at the fret you tune it at. If you tune the open strings, they are in tune but the farther up the neck you go the farther out it is. Using a tuner, tune it in the middle of what you will be playing. If you are playing the most common chords pretty much all at the 5th fret down, tune your strings at the 3rd fret. If you're going to be all over the neck, tune at the 6th through 10th fret depending on where (higher or lower) the majority of your playing will be. Instead of being in tune at one end of the neck and out of tune at the other, you will be in tune in the middle and only a little out higher and lower. This is especially helpful when recording on a multi-track unit. Tune the guitar in the middle of the chords you will be playing for the rhythm track and retune it up higher in the middle of your leads to record that track. Also be aware that when you pick a string it is at one note and it goes slightly flat as it sustains. You'll notice this on your tuner. If you are going to be playing short note runs, tune at the moment you pick the string. If you are going to be playing sustaining chords, tune it a little later, after it sustains for a second or two. Beginners may not notice what a difference this method makes, but those with a good ear will be astonished.

I've been an Acoustician/Recording Engineer since '85, so I have a pretty good ear. When playing with the capo on it was a no brainer. The Taylor tuning had a warmer, fuller sound that was more pleasing to the ear. The standard tuning was crisp but a little too crisp. An engineer would have put a filter on it, not on the taylor. Without the capo was a lot harder to tell. At times I almost thought you didn't change the tuning at all. There is a difference though.. It can really be heard at certain frequencies and like you said "when the strings are hit harder....." Great Vid! I've been playing with this idea for years, this confirms to me I'm not crazy

The taylor tuning just has that little extra soul to it, I can't really hear the difference but yet there is.. Weird..

Welp, I suck. No difference.

All this shows is that if my tuning is within 10cents i’m ok 😂

It must be awesome to have a brother that you can jam along with. So much you can learn from one another.

Thank you Obi Wan Kenobi for this lesson.

If Obi Wan tells you to tune your guitar lower, you do it, he has the higher ground.

My issue was that he did not use a lot of open chords near the nut (E, C, G, D, etc)

I really enjoyed the fluid transition between the 2 guitars in this video. Much nicer than the stops and fade outs on some of your other videos. Really helped me hear the slight differences.

Your playing is excellent as always but I love the editing in this vid... the dual playing edit is flawless... well done brother I'm seriously impressed... so much so that i just subscribed :D

It's so nice that you got your brother to come help you making this vid.. and dressing the same is adorable!!

Beautifully presented and played, thanks Paul! What a beautiful guitar.

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Honestly, if I went into the A/B without knowing what the difference was, I'd have just said the Taylor tuning had a new set of strings and standard an old and dead af pair.....

You are really kewl, and an awesome musician/guitarist. I agree that switching back and forth one sounds out of tune after getting accustomed to the nuance. As with any guitar, what sounds the most pleasing is quite subjective to the listener. Standard tuning to my ear, sounds slightly more ringing with clarity, while the Taylor method seems to have a bit more resonance. The pursuit of tone will forever be transient. What is right for one mood is less appealing in another.

Thanks for the cool informative video. For years, I’ve compensated the g and b strings, first tuning them as closely to standard pitch using a tuner, and then “sweetened” them to my ear by playing a few chord voicings at first, second and third positions... for years I thought my first guitars were just badly and hopelessly out of intonation...but after twenty years and lots of guitars, the g string when tuned to “correct” standard pitch always sounds a little goofy and unpleasantly sharp. Now I know I’m not nuts. A few cents flat from g3 196 hz, really sweetens the harmonic weight and seems to eliminate unpleasant dissonant overtones, instead lending pleasant subtle beating as the offset harmonic phasing seemingly magically makes sonic silk out of what mathematically/physically should produce the opposite result. Electric Guitars, through simple single ended valve amplifiers, being the unavoidably imperfect (even-when-over engineered to ridiculous precision) are such wild, expressive, and elegant air-bending, telekinetic wizard wands for telling stories by high jacking emotions through a persons eardrums. How lucky we are to get to hear and play...

Get us playing like that and we'll happily use either tuning :)