who rocks crazy altered tunings?

[Zounds Perspex]

just asking because I'm about to get back to my roots, do some restringing, and scrape the pentatonic crust off my playing.

F#-F#-B-B-D-D anyone? what's yer favorite tuning of pain? hey, you plain ol' open tuners are welcome, too.

[devnulljp]

I play a lot of the old standard alt tunings, open G, open A, open D, open E. I used to always have a guitar that was always in Robert Fripp's new standard tuning -- CGDAEG -- I need to get back to that. It's an odd one for sure.
Played classical a bit in C# minor (c#, g#, c#, g#, c#, e) -- you ever heard Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi?

[jfrey]

It's not odd, except I don't know anyone else that uses it. Perfect fourth tuning. I keep one guitar in it.

[Zounds Perspex]

uh, you mean fifths I think? except that high G. and of course violinists, cellists, and all those sorts tune in fifths.
what string gauges do you use for that, jfrey?

[Zounds Perspex]

I play a lot of the old standard alt tunings, open G, open A, open D, open E. I used to always have a guitar that was always in Robert Fripp's new standard tuning -- CGDAEG -- I need to get back to that. It's an odd one for sure.
Played classical a bit in C# minor (c#, g#, c#, g#, c#, e) -- you ever heard Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi?

I have not heard that, but I have used minor open tunings before.
I've never understood why they weren't more popular - just add a fret on one string and you have a major chord,
and then minor is there for the taking. I always had the G string tuned to the third, though.

[Zounds Perspex]

Albert Collins tuned to F minor, too.

[Zounds Perspex]

Oh! and that tuning you listed for Carlo What'shisface, devnulljp, is the same one Albert King used. weird.

[jfrey]

uh, you mean fifths I think?

No. P4 tuning. The strings are fourths.

For example:
E - F# - G# - A
1 - 2 - 3 - 4

So E P4 tuning is:
E - A - D - G - C - F

what string gauges do you use for that, jfrey?

I use it on my semi-hollow with DR Lite and Heavy 9s (or sometimes Elixirs). The gauges are:
9 - 11 - 16 - 26 - 36 - 46

[Zounds Perspex]

ok. but the tuning dev listed - CGDAEG - is mainly fifths, hence the confusion.

[GardenoftheDead]

Guitar player in my last band used some wacky tunings he came up with himself. Stuff like GAEGAD and so on.

Aside from the basic down-tuned versions of Standard and Drop D, I hate playing in stuff like. It's so limiting.

[Joe Gress]

I've got one bass tuned in fifths. Gonna start learning some cello stuff to reinforce it, cause its a lot of fun.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I like open tunings, major and minor. Having 2 strings tuned the same is great too, like GGDGBD, you get this really cool chorus-y thing going on. C G D G B E is cool, I might try tuning fully in 5ths some day.

[Adoom]

A fair few.

A fair, fair few. About 27 odd.

CADGAE, AACEBC, CGCGCd#, B F# B E F# B, these would be favourites.

I'm actually only learning E Standard now. It's an interersting tuning.

[nuclearfamily]

I always messed around with alternate tunings... until I saw Lee Ranaldo play at a music festival last year. Now I almost exclusively use alternate tunings and some open tunings. Personally I find limiting yourself to standard tuning to be very limiting. I love inventing new chords and finding new combinations everytime I pick up my guitar. I find standard to sound kind of ugly now. Anyways these are a few of my favorites:

FACFCF
G#G#G#BbCC
DGDGBbD
CGCFAB
EBEEBE
F#AEG#C#B

Also has anyone tried Lou Reeds ostrich tuning? Having all the strings tuned the same would be kind of cool but I don't want to go through all the effort of put six A strings on my guitar.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I tune for AA to BF#BEG#C# which is basic drop style B, if my 8 string ever comes in.... (fukkin USPS parcel post is now at 3+ weeks)..... will be DADADGBD or maybe even weirder depending on how it feels and what i plan on doing..... I've also played around with BF#BF#AB which was pretty cool for some drone stuff i was playing around with doing some crazy 6 string bar chords....