tunings

MoROcca

for those of you in the "anti-nonstandard tuning coalition," this may be a bit painful, but oh well...

i found a whole list of alternate tunings on google. hope it helps some of you.

johnniespring

those are all boring

Doog

I like making up tunings and see what it sounds like.

johnniespring

i like having a sound in my head and making up a tuning to get that sound.

MoreCowbell

Yeah, I do the same...whatever makes my 7 string sond like korn.

vivadeluxxe

More Cowbell said: Yeah, I do the same...whatever makes my 7 string sond like korn.

You have a 7 string?

It dosn't look like this does it?? :/

MoreCowbell

FVCK NO!!!!! I'll never own one...unless it looks like that ofcourse! 😆

Doog

I'd buy a 7 string, it's not like you have to be in a nu metal band to make use of a lower string.

julian

Yeah, those are pretty lame tunings, except for DADGAD, DADGAD is great.

now, if you want some real alternate tunings, try making up some of your own.

I tuned my guitar CCCCCC (So I could play George Harrison's sitar based songs) then found out a week later Lou Reed used DDDDDD On VU + Nico.

I use CADGBC on one of my songs.

The way I choose to use an alternate tuning isn't so I can do new chords, its so I can do new drones, although for most songs, using Be as drones works great, and if it doesn't sound quite right, bringing the chords up an octave works nicely.

(half of my favorite bands use drones, so I sort of picked it up)

StevieK

I got this tuning I like using a lot: E A D G B E

It sounds really cool.

Aug

Stevie K said: I got this tuning I like using a lot: E A D G B E
It sounds really cool.

hahaha...smart ass.

lately I've been detuning again. 1/2 step and full step.

holikujak

i like DADFAD alot, its what skip james used for his hard time killing floor blues

superfuzz

Stevie K said: I got this tuning I like using a lot: E A D G B E
It sounds really cool.

agreed! well, recently i did a dadgbd, im going to try faddad later today, i try any tuneing that makes a word or phrase. like daaaad.....im a loser, so?

hurbet

i likd the bish bash bosh tuneing bing bang bong

Doog

Stevie K said: I got this tuning I like using a lot: E A D G B E
It sounds really cool.

Oh! So witty!

Have you tried F U K O F F?

(haha, I'm just playin', yo)

Aen

Right now I'm rockin' DADD on my tele, DADAAE on my Jazzmaster, which I never would have tried unless i had picked up a friends guitar and written a song inlike, 10 seconds with that tuning. It seemed to me like that hi E would foul things right up, but it goes nicely.

Then of course the bariotne is BF#BB

dinosaur

drop d can be fun. i used to play everything in Eb(whatever) but i cant be bothered to tune up all the way to standard. sonic youth tunings are amazingly fun (like F#F#F#F#EB)

iCEByTes

get a Slide do and do it 😀

its amazing , i think its Open G , anyone know what is that tunning ?

and i tryng discover what tunning shawn lane used here

friggin amazing ... that song make me stunned

Zekk

I use Half step up with high e tuned to C alot.

echelon

Zekk said: I use Half step up with high e tuned to C alot.

hey thats the "Placebo" tuning (cos Placebo use that in ALL their songs!).

yeh i use that alot too...but without the half step up (so EADGBB)

that extra B makes everything in the key of E sound minory and kinda haunting..it's awesome