I also used to play violin and want a tenor so yeah NST is a lot of fun and makes plenty of sense. Though of course violin you don't really play 4 note chords haha. But the principle of where the notes are and how to play scales etc.
I can’t really, it’s where most of the work for the corporate dudes I’m working for need their workers, though everything is in limbo right now. I found a place so I’m just waiting to hear back from them but it leaves me kinda on the breadline unless I can get the odd bit of freelance work. I am definitely going just to saunter about the country for a few months and hit up the Aran Islands at some point.
I’m just waiting for the inevitable second wave to strike to derail those plans.
Yeah, my love for droney chords that sound lush is the thing that makes me think twice about NST.
Much harder to pretend I’m a better guitarist than I actually am.
I know there’s ways and means. DADGAD is just something I know how to navigate best I guess. Like Steve Von Till says, it takes the two things I know how to make my hands do and makes them sound cool.
Man I love Neurosis. I wonder how much of that tension comes from SVT going DADGAD/AADGAD and Scott Kelly going the standard drop D variant.
Big Neurosis fan over here as well. Brilliant quote from SVT I didn't realise they used different tunings, that's fun. I love what they manage to do with the layered guitar parts.
That makes a lot of sense that Steve and Scott use different tunings. when I saw them last year I was struck by how often they were playing what sounded like the same part, and would like subtly drift into complementary parts. great stuff.
my forever tuning is CGCFAC, so basically double drop d down a step.
I had a lot of fun this past year with AEADGC, drop A but all the intervals other than the 5th and 6th string are 4ths all the way up. Had a 12 string in that tuning as well. great for filling space in a band without changing the tone colors of chords. I was playing rhythm guitar in a band where my role was to both make a lot of noise and also stay out of the way, so having access to powerchord shapes everywhere made that really easy.
Oh, cool! I didn't know. *Puts on Ohio, followed by the new Homegrown*
Originally I was gonna use open g. I wanted to do the arpeggios based in gmaj, for ease of playing, but I also wanted the lowest power chord to be an f, and I normally play open d minor, so less fuss re-tuning live is good... so I ended up with this thing, which I quite like!
I fucked around tuning up the low E to an F# for huge chords when playing high up in the neck, had to compromise some cause I felt I really needed to be able to hit a low D chord. I ended up with C# F# D G A E and It's awesome
imagine finding out your son is your daughter & she's into noise music
having just gotten a Squier Jazzmaster, i can see why Kevin Shields likes those largely-unison tunings. a JM is perfect for that, especially with the rhythm circuit.
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I didn't realise they used different tunings, that's fun. I love what they manage to do with the layered guitar parts.
