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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 :omg:

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) :idk: 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) :idk: 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) :idk: My theory is pretty weak.


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


:thumb: 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