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mathias wrote: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...

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For my basses: standard drop C. For guitars: CCCEBB or CGCGCD#. For baritone: standard drop A#
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What about high-strung/nashville tuning?

EADGBE, but EADG are all an octave higher than usual (use 12string-type guages). Then play usual chord shapes, but with magical chime to it.
Then chuck away any chorus pedals you own.

Actually, chuck 'em away anyway.
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D-Rainger wrote:Then chuck away any chorus pedals you own.

Actually, chuck 'em away anyway.


Let me guess - You don't have a feedback looper then? ;) It will turn them magical, if You didn't like chorus effect on its own right.
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I messed around with this tuning yesterday and it sounded pretty awesome.

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Just started screwing around in open Dmin -- Skip James' tuning.
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bubstance wrote:
Abanoise wrote:For my basses: standard drop C. For guitars: CCCEBB or CGCGCE#. For baritone: standard drop A#

Do you mean F? 'Cause E# isn't in the key of C, nor in any scale that begins with C. That's a sharp 3rd, my friend.


Sorry man, it was a D#... :thumb:
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devnulljp wrote:Just started screwing around in open Dmin -- Skip James' tuning.
'suseful.

DADFAD

This tuning is my flavour of the week :lol:. I just love finding droney barre chords and riffing on them forever. It feels super lazy but its fun as hell.
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I tune to DADG, when I bother to tune.
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lately i've been ALLLL about DADGAD. it's so beautiful. i think it's really hard to play something that sounds bad in DADGAD. :lol:
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unownunown wrote:lately i've been ALLLL about DADGAD. it's so beautiful. i think it's really hard to play something that sounds bad in DADGAD. :lol:


Fuck yeah DADGAD. I'm so lame that everytime I use that tuning, I always have to play kashmir :picard:
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My old (and only) guitar teacher told me that alternate timings were useless, I quit the next lesson.
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5 string bass tuned to C-C-F-B flat-E flat. Gives some extra kaboom on the 2 C's.
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