Alternate Tunings!

[Pepsihillo]

I've been messing with Robert Fripp's new standard tuning lately. Really fun if you're tired of the same old blues licks and chord voicings!

CGDAEG

or, with a 7-string: FCGDAEG

[Bassus Sanguinis]

I've been messing with Robert Fripp's new standard tuning lately. Really fun if you're tired of the same old blues licks and chord voicings!

CGDAEG

or, with a 7-string: FCGDAEG

Yeah, it's like a fresh start, plus You can easily run two octaves at any position. If You're into that. But I find the diminished and the jazzy chords hard when not impossible, so... kept the low C.

[bob the r0bot]

almost every sonic youth tuning
I will also occasionally tune my bass to DEAD for extra br00tz

[Achtane]

almost every sonic youth tuning
I will also occasionally tune my bass to DEAD for extra br00tz

DEAD is the blackest of tunings, so metal.

[StudioShutIn]

eBGDAA - Low e is tuned to an octave below the a string.

I need to try this. I'm really liking having the same notes or octaves right next to each other. Especially on the lower three strings.

It's great! My band used to do this until we shifted everything down a step.

I was using a tuning similar to that for a while...CGCGGC...based on a tuning that Alex Lifeson uses for a acoustic instrumental on Snakes and Arrows.
I basically took his tuning and put it a whole step lower, because the idea of tuning the G up to an A kinda scares me

[mathias]

almost every sonic youth tuning
I will also occasionally tune my bass to DEAD for extra br00tz

DEAD is the blackest of tunings, so metal.

Consequently, I heard ACDC is a very good bass tuning for classic rock. Of course you tune down to low-A.

[StudioShutIn]

almost every sonic youth tuning
I will also occasionally tune my bass to DEAD for extra br00tz

DEAD is the blackest of tunings, so metal.

Consequently, I heard ACDC is a very good bass tuning for classic rock. Of course you tune down to low-A.

Does this mean that CBGB is ideal for late-70's punk?

*Ba-dum Tsh!*

[mathias]

definitely.

[Pepsihillo]

Yeah, it's like a fresh start, plus You can easily run two octaves at any position. If You're into that. But I find the diminished and the jazzy chords hard when not impossible, so... kept the low C.

Yeah, true. It's a really great tuning if one's into playing classical and it's great for improvising and lead playing but some chords are really difficult.

Any 3-note chords are easy enough but when you start adding 6ths and 7ths it's just hopeless

Although I don't think that diminished chords are that hard? And I love the way you can play add9 chords just using one finger on this tuning (well, if you use just one finger it's missing the third but that gives it that weird and cool "I have no frigging idea where I'm going with this" sound )

[StudioShutIn]

And I love the way you can play add9 chords just using one finger on this tuning (well, if you use just one finger it's missing the third but that gives it that weird and cool "I have no frigging idea where I'm going with this" sound )

a.k.a. a 'suspended' sound?

[Pepsihillo]

a.k.a. a 'suspended' sound?

Ah, that's the word i was looking for

[Gearmond]

Mike Kinsella's secret tuning:

EAEABE

[mathias]

There's always the old Farmer tuning: EIEIO with a broken 1st string.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Yeah, it's like a fresh start, plus You can easily run two octaves at any position. If You're into that. But I find the diminished and the jazzy chords hard when not impossible, so... kept the low C.

Yeah, true. It's a really great tuning if one's into playing classical and it's great for improvising and lead playing but some chords are really difficult.

Any 3-note chords are easy enough but when you start adding 6ths and 7ths it's just hopeless

Although I don't think that diminished chords are that hard? And I love the way you can play add9 chords just using one finger on this tuning (well, if you use just one finger it's missing the third but that gives it that weird and cool "I have no frigging idea where I'm going with this" sound )

Well hopeless or near hopeless is the word, if You play bass guitar and do chords most of the time. Nothing a combination of two fuzz pedals wouldn't fix, sure, but You can pretty much stop adding strings to chord above three notes with that much fuzz.

Ja Pepsihillo perhana - jäbähän on Suomesta! Montakos meitä nyt on täällä, kolme?

There's always the old Farmer tuning: EIEIO with a broken 1st string.

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[snipelfritz]

There's always the old Farmer tuning: EIEIO with a broken 1st string.

There's also that tuning that's really great for Freddie Mercury and Klaus Nomi songs...

AIDS