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it depends on the type of alternate tuning. a lot of open tunings are a lot more intuitive imo, at least for riffs. standard tuning is kind of stupid, that damn b D;

also guitarpro has a tool that shows you all the chords and all the scales for any root in any tuning. it is fantastic.

I can understand open tunings that let me barre straight across and get a given chord.. I could easily work out what notes are what on the 6th string and therefore know what chords I'm playing. But if strings aren't the same intervals that I'm used to, I'd probably be lost. Half of my "scales"-based riffing is intuitively knowing what intervals sound good more than anything else.

I just found out that not only did I pass the class I thought I'd horribly failed, but my prof is also letting me take the midterm I missed months ago due to my own stupidity for extra marks. On top of that, I'm happily drunk and my terribly misbehaved kitten is actually being good for once (meaning asleep on my lap, I'm sure I'll pay for this in the morning when I want to sleep and she wants to play though).

unownunown wrote:Standard tuning is kind of stupid, that damn b D;

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It's for flexibility - gives you a wide range of options in what you can play. There are probably some other reasons but I don't know them. If you wanted everything to be fourths though you could just tune to EADGCF. I've done that a few times. It's ok I guess.

madmax1012 wrote:

mathias wrote:How do you wrap your head around scales/riffs in alternate tunings?

THIS. i think we need an alternate tuning enlightenment thread.

just gonna go ahead and ask...should I create one in the Music section?

Do it.

adrianlee wrote:Do it.

aaaand..done!

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SPACERITUAL wrote:

is that the plot of Harry Potter turned into fake status updates?

standards fine your just hipsters
plenty of amazing songs are written in standard

i'm so old that stuff that was hip when i was a teenager has come into style again and then become passe.

This page...

As lame and obnoxious as I think college kids obsessing over it is(Rule of thumb: You shouldn't be older than Harry in the book you're reading, if you're watching the movie, go drown yourself in a well), Harry Potter is kind of hardcore. If an orphaned kid was locked in a closet for most hours of the day by his only living relatives in real life, and people found out about it, that would be national news. People would be going apeshit about that kind of child abuse, and it would be made into a Lifetime Movie. Either way, Harry Potter still totally wishes it was Lord of the Rings though.

maz91379 wrote:Um so i like how much better of a guitarist i become when i drink alcohol and use fuzz pedals. Acoustic through fuzz is win. If only there was a way to harness those tones and semi tame them. Does a hollowbody get close?

There's pedals that claim to tame feedback, which might help if you set the threshold high enough that you get some feedback, but not uncontrollable feedback.

Otherwise, a volume pedal would work great. Put it after the fuzz, so you get full signal in to be distorted, and adjust volume to amp to taste.

I always through that a cheap Epi Studio Dot paired with a Big Muff sounded glorious. Into a loud clean amp. Cheap setup if you get it all used, too