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Are you leaving Dublin if it sucks?

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.

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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.

Sorry about the living situation that sounds bad

Yeah. That Demovids interview with him was full of gold as well.

I actually have a Wilson Effects Wah based off the Tychobrahe Parapedal for some years now, so I was delighted to find out he has a clone too.

Ah, it’s Dublin. This country is as silly as all the other ones.

Gorguts do that too - Luc plays a 7 string and Kevin plays a 6. It's a cool idea.

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.

Neurosis are the only band I travelled over water to specifically see.

12!strings are kinda great hutnI’m with John Butler in this one, the G should not be your highest note.

I wrote a song in dadgbd recently that I'm very happy with. Use the top three for powerchords, bottom three for arpeggios.

That’s the ‘Ohio’ tuning!

It’s so good.

Confuses the hell out me but it’s so nice.

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!

lately, it's been open G on strings 1-5, and the sixth tuned anywhere from A to D, depending.

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

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.

Hey you goofballs!
You might want to take a crack at "extremely open G"

GGDGG
(something like 42, 42, 32, 15, 15)
It's been a real inspiration for me over the years, including two albums worth of tunes, one is out already.

https://philipkdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/deep

Cool! sounds like a fun one for sure