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The Runaway 
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Posted: April 04 2010 at 17:29 |
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My guitar is tuned, from low to high, Bb, Bb, Db, Bb, B#, and the high E is ripped, so I can make vibrating sounds with it (ask Joel). I tuned it based on joke tablatures on the Uncyclopedia thread about Progressive Rock. I intend to make those tabs possible (69th fret win!), and I will upload it here.
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Epignosis
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Posted: April 04 2010 at 17:33 |
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EADGBe
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Hanke666
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Posted: April 04 2010 at 17:49 |
E standard, but I've been experimenting with CGDACF on an acoustic. It's like Guitar Craft Standard (Robert Fripp doesn't want it to be called NST anymore) for the lazy man, or something like that. Maybe I should call it Guitar Craft Modal? 
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The Runaway
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Posted: April 04 2010 at 17:57 |
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I'll try it.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: April 04 2010 at 20:40 |
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My basses are either in standard tuning or cello tuning (CGDA). I've started to prefer cello tuning.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: April 04 2010 at 22:08 |
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I've got my Danelectro tuned (low to high) GGCEAE right now. The two lowest strings are in unison.
Before that, it was DADFAE
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: April 05 2010 at 01:53 |
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My ESP is tuned to DGCFAD with .010 strings, the Variax is in standard tuning with .009 strings.
Edited by Mr ProgFreak - April 05 2010 at 01:54
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Any Colour You Like
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Posted: April 05 2010 at 02:02 |
I don't know what my guitar is tuned to at the moment. It's probably out of tune. It's the Post Metal thing to do. 
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Posted: April 05 2010 at 03:39 |
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I think mine is more or less close to the standard tuning.
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b4usleep
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Posted: April 05 2010 at 03:56 |
 Vompatti wrote:
I think mine is more or less close to the standard tuning.
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Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
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CPicard
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Posted: April 05 2010 at 11:36 |
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D-D-Aa.
It's a dulcimer.
Otherwise, my bass is tuned D-D (I play very primitive music).
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halabalushindigus
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 14:15 |
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D-A-D-G-B-D a little Phil Keaggy (attempt)
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assume the power 1586/14.3
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 14:46 |
The guitar is A-E-A-E-A-E at the moment, jamming out some weird stoner riffs  And the bass is 1,5 steps down (C#-F#-B-E) to play along with Sabbath's heavier songs 
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jampa17
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 15:07 |
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
My ESP is tuned to DGCFAD with .010 strings, the Variax is in standard tuning with .009 strings. |
Whole step down Mike... what music do you play with it...?
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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jampa17
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 15:08 |
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I play with standard tunning, but most of my compositions are in Drop D as well... easier to play my kind of metal that I love... but like both tunnings...
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 15:25 |
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When it's not EADGBE, it's DADAAD.
Another nice one is utilising only four strings, it's D, Bb, G, E. Easy chords all over the fretboard, and slighlty avant/flamenco/eerie feel.
My mandolin and bass are tuned by the standard (but mandolin is not reversed for left-handed as my other instruments), my balalaika is Dda, with medium gauge acoustic metal guitar strings.
Bouzouki in standard tune.
Upright bass lowered to DAEB (necessity, the neck is fragile).
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 16:13 |
last.fm
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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halabalushindigus
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Posted: April 06 2010 at 16:24 |
and my tuner better have fresh batteries because I can't tune by ear any more. Used too, can't anymore
and nobody better rip me on this!
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assume the power 1586/14.3
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Posted: April 07 2010 at 13:37 |
Abstrakt wrote:
The guitar is A-E-A-E-A-E at the moment, jamming out some weird stoner riffs
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I jammed together a 6-min song today in that tuning. It's a rather slow instrumental in 6/8, kinda alternative or experimental grunge/metal.
Starts with a nice litte fingerpicking pattern that alters a bit as it moves along, then off for some really nice and really heavy low-tuned riffs, before returning to the fingerpicking, and finishing off with a call-and-response riff between the low and high strings.
Sounds really nice! A bit like Kyuss or Pelican 
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: April 07 2010 at 16:23 |
I have several guitars that I keep in different tunings pretty much all the time:
Ibanez RG - Standard
Ibanez 7-string - Something that amounts to open A
Les Paul - Open C (Devin Townsend, anyone?)
SG - Drop D
Alvarez acoustic - DADGAD
Fender acoustic - Standard
I hate tuning, so I just keep it like this so I don't have to fool with it  |
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