Favourite tuning?

[Paul_C]

Std. tuning at the moment, but I do noodle using a modified phrygian dominant scale that is daft enough not to be recognised as a "proper" scale.

1 – ♭2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – ♭6 – ♭7 –style?

E standard has always sounded too high pitched for me (too much grunge during my formative listening years), so I keep my guitars in D standard these days.

Bennroe, I love open minor tunings.

It started as a Japanese In Sen pentatonic scale - 1 b2 4 5 b7

Then I started adding a couple of notes which I later discovered made it the phrygian dominant - 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 b7

But now and again I like to throw in a couple more (bear in mind this is noodling without any backing track, so there are no actual "wrong" notes as such) which means it sometimes becomes 1 b2 b3 3 4 5 b6 6 b7

I'm sure there's a better way of describing it - I'm probably just jumping between two mostly similar scales - but that's what I generally muck about with, more often than not in D, so that I can chop together bits and pieces from different recordings and they have a passable chance of being compatible

It's nice to sometimes expand to use all the notes, and then other times drop back to the In Sen pentatonic to force myself to think a bit more about what I'm doing other than just hit the next note in the scale.

[Bon Hoga]

I quite like GDGDDG on my bari. It's not a very versatile tuning and there isn't much you can do with it, but everything you manage to pull off sounds aces.

[voerking]

oh, yeah, i'm also a fan of EBEEBE, which is used by both the SunCity Girls' Sir Richard Bishop & James Blood Ulmer.

[Errant Tiger]

DGDGAD. Like DADGAD, only one lower. Also DADFAD (open Dm) and DGDGBbD (open Gm), both of which (erroneously) make me feel like I can do no wrong.

[repoman]

I messed around with tuning to open whole tone tonight which wound up sounding interesting. It makes you sound more "intelligent" or some shit, like 20th century classical or sumptin....makes an inquisitive sound.

[Toropicana]

I'm really into DAAAAAD (I Only Said tuning) at the moment.

[Zounds Perspex]

Open C rules - CGCGCE. Sounds radd dropping that E down to the minor third, too.

[brecht]

DGDAAD. Got it from a My Disco interview way back, when they were still playing noise rock.

[Bassist_Diver]

I usually stick to standard, Eb standard, and drop D, although I don't need to strum or play chords.

[adamajah]

Ooh I wanna try the 'jazzy' EGDGBE thing

Right now I'm really liking D Standard with some thicker gauge strings for some pleasant ... girth

[Zounds Perspex]

Open C is still my favorite tuning for acoustic guitars, but having a lot of fun with Open D and "double dropped D" on electric lately - DADGBD.

[voerking]

I messed around with tuning to open whole tone tonight which wound up sounding interesting. It makes you sound more "intelligent" or some shit, like 20th century classical or sumptin....makes an inquisitive sound.

what was the actual tuning? you could do all tritones, or all major thirds & consider it a whole tone tuning. or were the strings actually all tuned a whole step (major 2nd) up from each other?

speaking of tuning in tritones, that's what Sonar does. i always wish they did a bit more with it, though...

[Phosphene Audio]

My favorite, or at least most common, tuning is "out of," but I do use others from time to time.

[Phosphene Audio]

This one is in a tritone tuning, E B flat E B flat B flat E






DADGAD






Every string tuned to an A.


https://microwaves.bandcamp.com/track/executive-indecision




EADGBD

https://microwaves.bandcamp.com/track/jet-jaguar

[weebles]

I'm a big fan of C# G# C# F# A# C# on my Jazzblaster.

Open tunings on an acoustic are *chef's kiss* and I generally stay in regular old open D.