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Cygnus X-1 
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 Posted: February 02 2006 at 13:13 |
down tuning is sometimes cool for heavy songs, but i mostly stick with standard
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King of Loss
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Posted: February 02 2006 at 13:43 |
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Drop D or C usually. Unless I want to play some Death Metal, drop tuning to B is required.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: February 02 2006 at 13:44 |
 King of Loss wrote:
Drop D or C usually. Unless I want to play some Death Metal, drop tuning to B is required. |
With Jazz strings? 
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: February 02 2006 at 14:54 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
King of Loss wrote:
Drop D or C usually. Unless I want to play some Death Metal, drop tuning to B is required. |
With Jazz strings?
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as said before Adrian Smith of iron maiden sometimes brings up the AADGBE tuning to normal guitar...i think he used a bass string for this tuning 
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Andrew Vernon
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Posted: February 03 2006 at 18:31 |
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My guitar is mostly in DADGBE or CGCFAD. My bass I experiment with a lot. I've tried standard, DADG, CGCF, BEDG, and BADG.
The notes move around, and you can find some really good riffs by using non-standard tunings. I don't find tuning down on my bass to be difficult or that it causes any problems.
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over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
feed my will to feel this moment, urging me to cross the line.
reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
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Syzygy
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Posted: February 04 2006 at 06:48 |
Alternative tunings really come into their own for solo acoustic guitar - the DADGAD tuning popularised by Davy Graham in the 1960s opens up a lot of possibilities and isn't that difficult to get used to. Guitarists like Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy, John Renbourn Richard Thompson and John Martyn all use it (with variations) to great effect. Jimmy Page was heavily influenced by that generation of UK folk guitarists and the acoustic Zeppelin tracks frequently use similar tunings.
Open G/D tunings are good for slide, and were pretty much standard among old school blues players.
Nick Drake, David Crosby and Joni Mitchell have used all kinds of odd tunings to create unfamiliar, usually jazzy chord patterns for their highly individual songwriting.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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KoS
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Posted: February 04 2006 at 23:54 |
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not a fan, since i have cheap guitars, though DADGAD tuning on acoustic is cool
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arcer
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Posted: February 05 2006 at 05:57 |
Yup I'm a big fan of DADGAD and open G on acoustic. My dobro is permanently tuned to open G and sounds great either finger picked or with slide but on electric guitars it's almost always standard tuning. Maybe it's because I'm a crap player 
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novella
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Posted: February 07 2006 at 20:02 |
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I tend to use D standard down one whole step or drop C
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If you ever reach the moon before I do wave goodbye.
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Goldenavatar
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 02:14 |
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I find drop tunings to be mostly unneeded. I mean what's the point of dropping to D unless you're actually playing a tune in D? Dropping to D doesn't help much if the tune's in B or Eb for example. I do like exploring open tunings though. You can get a lot of resonance from your guitar with an open tuning, plus you get the bonus of some very interesting chord voicings.
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chromaticism
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Posted: February 12 2006 at 11:31 |
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Whole step down (D, G, C, F, A, D) for the heavier stuff I write on the key of D minor; it's standard E otherwise and nothing else.
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: February 13 2006 at 12:10 |
I dont tihnk theres any problem wiht drop tuning at all.
YOu guys sound pretty snobish by saying "Oh no drop tuning! thats stupid becuase im a real musician and i play my instrument how everyone else does"
If you hear a song in your head, that should have a low D chord, tune it down. You shouldnt confine yourself to preset limits of your intsrtments . Thats kinda what prog is about. The freedom to do what you want even tohguh thats not the norm.
Also i enjoy doing alternate tunings. One of my favourites for acoustic guitar is
Daddad. its sexy.
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
-Stone Beard
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