who rocks crazy altered tunings?

[GardenoftheDead]

AEAGF#A is an interesting tuning.

[unownunown]

yooo i love weird tunings. i post this link every time this thread comes up.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/tab/tuning.html

also if you give a shit about scales and chords and orienting yourself and shit, try guitar pro. it'll show you scale graphs and chords for any tuning if you just press a. (assuming you've set the tuning first)

[wozzly]

the Fripp tuning is interesting, but with my normal, light gauge-strings I always use, it's impossible to make it sound right. If I ever had another electric, I would try it out.

[Chankgeez]

Lately I've mostly been playing in DADGAD.

I also like Carl Kress's tuning, BbFDGAD.

Before that I was playing in EADF#BE for awhile.

[smile_man]

my standard tuning is EAC#G#BC#

so twinkly.

the CGDGBe tuning is really nice too, good range.

my favourite are joan of arc tunings.

recommend me some pentatonic tunings, i want into that.

[voerking]

after playing in standard tuning for 22 years, i've been using C-G-D-G-C-D exclusively in a new band i'm playing with. embarrassingly, i found it on a Sonic Youth website. it works for me, though.

[smile_man]

after playing in standard tuning for 22 years, i've been using C-G-D-G-C-D exclusively in a new band i'm playing with. embarrassingly, i found it on a Sonic Youth website. it works for me, though.

C next to G is just a great combo. I also like CGCGBe

[Bret608]

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.

Hey, I think I used to have my guitar in this for over a year! Or at least the two F#s are awfully familiar. It was the tuning Sonic Youth used on Kool Thing and a number of others. I also did the "Brother James" tuning for a while and liked it maybe even a little better. Can't remember it right off, but I believe it starts off GG at least.

I also saw what you mentioned about Lee's pedalboard and I agree...when I lived in NYC from 1995-2000, I went to see his various side projects anytime I had a chance, so I was able to get pretty familiar with his board. I haven't seen them live in years at this point, but I love that the one guy with the website that documents all their gear goes out and gets fresh pics pretty much anytime they tour.

[unownunown]

my standard tuning is EAC#G#BC#

so twinkly.

the CGDGBe tuning is really nice too, good range.

my favourite are joan of arc tunings.

recommend me some pentatonic tunings, i want into that.

i'm playing in acdega now. try that, it's fun.

[nuclearfamily]

Also a great site to check out is wikipedia's list of guitar tunings. Some cool stuff on there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tunings

[smile_man]

my standard tuning is EAC#G#BC#

so twinkly.

the CGDGBe tuning is really nice too, good range.

my favourite are joan of arc tunings.

recommend me some pentatonic tunings, i want into that.

i'm playing in acdega now. try that, it's fun.

shit, i dont think i can go that low on my guitar.

[bigchiefbc]

I think we have one of these threads come up every couple of months.

Personally, my guitars are almost always in one of the following tunings:

standard drop-D
one whole step down from that (CGCFAD)
Placebo tuning (FA#D#G#CC)

And when I want to get all dissonant, I use what I like to call the "Root" tuning, because it's based on that sick-sounding chord from Deftones' "Root" (EA#D#GBE)


My basses are always in either ADAGD or CCGCG (DADG or CGCG for my 4-string)

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

an old friend of mine used to use "BADDAD" tuning a lot...it sounded pretty cool, cept when he forgot to pick me up from soccer practice.

[coldbrightsunlight]

an old friend of mine used to use "BADDAD" tuning a lot...it sounded pretty cool, cept when he forgot to pick me up from soccer practice.

[WeHuntKings]

Oh man. I have to try the BADDAD.

I pretty much always keep my acoustic in some sort of DADGAD. Cept 1 or two steps down depending on the day.