Chords for The Greek Bouzouki Guitar Tuning

A little while back I made a video where I turned my [Em] guitar into a kodo. _ _
_ _ _ _ I got a lot of great feedback from that video, people trying it and people generally seem
to like it when you mess with your guitar.
So today I'm going to mess with my guitar.
Not quite as extreme as turning it into a kodo, but I am going to turn it into another instrument.
A bazooki.
The only guitar player I've heard doing this is Phil X, who's the guitar player for Bon
Jovi and Phil X and the [Dbm] Drills.
_ [A] _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _ [N] He's a really great guy and an amazing guitar player.
I've actually stolen a few of his licks over the years.
Thanks Phil.
So my plan for this video is phase one, turn my guitar into a bazooki.
The process is pretty [Em] simple.
We're going to detune the E string [Eb] until [Dm] we can get it enough slack to pull it off the
fretboard _ and put it right in there in the B string nut slot.
Then we're going to tune the [Abm] E string to a unison B.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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The point of this is to create the
bazooki effect, which is sort of like a flanger chorus [A] hybrid.
[D] _ _ [Eb] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ As you get [Em] closer to [E] the pickups here, the strings [G] start to widen out, so it's actually
kind of hard to catch them.
[A] Maybe right down here is the sweet spot.
_ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [E] Finding I'm like sliding along to keep the strings pressed together.
This is pretty cool.
I think it's going to make for some epic [N] shred moments.
Phase two, compose a metal or hard rock track to solo over using the bazooki guitar tuning.
The challenge there is I want to make the composition of Greek descent, the harmony
I want to come from like a traditional Greek chord progression.
And Phil's a friend of mine, so I texted him and asked if he had a chord progression in
mind since he's like the bazooki master.
So Phil gave me two options for places to start regarding the harmony.
One was like a Yngwie Malmsteen type of thing.
I would imagine like a Phrygian dominant or some sort of harmonic minor flare in the harmony.
And then the other progression he gave me is apparently dependent on having a Greek
melody, which means the tendencies of the melodic rhythm and the note choices would
be Greek in nature.
I'll do my best.
Let's start to compose the track first, and then we'll get to the [E] shred.
Alright, so [N] to come up with the drum beat, there's actually a bunch of randomly Greek
doombeck, I think is how you say it, loops in logic.
_ _ _ _ I like that.
I'm going to emulate that groove.
Phil told me that most Greek music is in 7-8, so we're going to write something in 7.
So I have my drums open. _
_ _ _ We have to basically rock and rollify this beat. _ _ _ _ _
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[Db] There's not really a pocket there.
I'm going to make a couple adjustments and create one.
Also going to make it rock a little harder. _ _
_ [N] Alright, modified Greek beat into a rock beat. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I like it.
Let's put some instruments, I should say, stringed instruments in the [D] mix. _ _
[Eb] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _
Alright, so that's what I came up [D] with based on Phil's recommendation for a chord progression.
I think it came out pretty sweet.
I basically just took the root and the third of the chords [Ab] that he [Bm] recommended.
So it's a D, _ and the major third, [N] F sharp.
And then I went to, obviously, D sharp [Eb] and F double sharp.
And [Am] then down to a [Cm] C minor, [D] C and E flat.
And that was the groove I just followed, the 7-8 pattern.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _
A _ [D] _ _ little bit faster so you can feel that 7.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
Now that's pretty sweet and definitely going to be interesting when I get the bazooki solo going on.
Of course we had to get a little bit more metal after that, so we went to the [Bb] power chords.
_ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ I really didn't deviate from the harmony at all because I'm just going to leave it pretty
sparse and wide open for whatever is about to happen next.
Let's see what's going to happen next.
I'm going to do my best to blend bazooki [D]-isms and guitar-isms and some sort of squealing notes.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Dm] _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Ebm] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _