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Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:50 am
by The4455
EADGBE
Compared to you guys, it's FUCKING ABSURD

Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:58 pm
by foomanfat
Thinking about "bomb" tuning my baritone.
EEADF#B
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:58 am
by Astricii
Recently I've been writing songs in EADGae
amazing how tuning one string down can make for a really usable tuning that lets you play in pretty much your normal style but forces you to think just that little be differently. think I saw something about it reading up on Swervedriver and some of Adam Franklin's tunings.
this one pretty much makes all your Major Barre Chords on the E string become Add11 and major A string chords become Sus2 lots of 4ths and 2nds added so it's Gazey as FUUUCCCCCCKkKKKKkKKkKKkK

Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:02 pm
by WayToHip
My jaguar is right now in DADGAD, and my LP is in C standard (CFA#D#GC).
I can get my Kashmir and QOTSA now.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:38 pm
by foomanfat
foomanfat wrote:Thinking about "bomb" tuning my baritone.
EEADF#B
I took this a step further and just went: DDADGB
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:33 am
by RR Bigman
I used to play in a band with a guy who tuned down an octave; he had to buy six string bass string sets. We ended up kicking out the bass player. Does that even count as an alternate tuning?
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:05 am
by IEatCats
I started playing in Open C tonight after watching a Devin Townsend video. I'm never going back.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:24 pm
by maxwellm
Dadaad. Is that crazy? Often play the doubled a string as a single melody line and let the others drone. Sometimes go with a barre across all strings. Whatever.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:21 am
by IEatCats
I like the idea of a drone string, but it never really translates to songwriting for me.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:11 am
by Bassus Sanguinis
maxwellm wrote:Dadaad. Is that crazy? Often play the doubled a string as a single melody line and let the others drone. Sometimes go with a barre across all strings. Whatever.
No, that's crazy awesome for weird 'n wonderful droning and absolutely infernal disharmonic stuff. I used to tune a bass to DDDG for some songs and play it like it was a guitar.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:24 am
by snipelfritz
maxwellm wrote:Dadaad. Is that crazy? Often play the doubled a string as a single melody line and let the others drone. Sometimes go with a barre across all strings. Whatever.
This is more or less what I do with my CCGCGC tuning.
Any suggestions of where to go from there? Maybe tweak one string to add some classy tasteful interval (sus2 or something)

My theory is pretty weak.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:52 pm
by maxwellm
I don't do theory very well. The only reason I ended up with Dadaad was I couldn't figure how to do a monotune tuning without breaking half the strings. I like the fifths tunings because they don't have that yucky third to tell you how to feel when you're listening.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:48 pm
by Zounds Perspex
snipelfritz wrote:maxwellm wrote:Dadaad. Is that crazy? Often play the doubled a string as a single melody line and let the others drone. Sometimes go with a barre across all strings. Whatever.
This is more or less what I do with my CCGCGC tuning.
Any suggestions of where to go from there? Maybe tweak one string to add some classy tasteful interval (sus2 or something)

My theory is pretty weak.
D would be open-ended. I like satan, so I'd add an F# in there.
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:56 am
by Bassus Sanguinis
Zounds Perspex wrote:snipelfritz wrote:maxwellm wrote:Dadaad. Is that crazy? Often play the doubled a string as a single melody line and let the others drone. Sometimes go with a barre across all strings. Whatever.
This is more or less what I do with my CCGCGC tuning.
Any suggestions of where to go from there? Maybe tweak one string to add some classy tasteful interval (sus2 or something)

My theory is pretty weak.
D would be open-ended. I like satan, so I'd add an F# in there.

F# tritonus sanctus diabolus in musica est
Re: who rocks crazy altered tunings?
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:08 pm
by RR Bigman
Tune every note to D; instant art crowd hipster cred