Favourite Guitar tunings
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Topic: Favourite Guitar tunings
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Subject: Favourite Guitar tunings
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 00:25
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Guitarists, which are your favourite tunings? At present, I'm really digging Open D and Open C. I also play around with custom tunings, more often than not forgetting to write them down or remember them. Makes for some nice experimentation.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 00:36
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low to high: DADFAE (open d-minor) is probably my favourite, my Danelectro is permanently in this tuning. DADGAD is a classic DGDGBE (G6 open) GGCEAE (where the bottom two strings are in unison) GGDGBE (as above) |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 00:39
Open D minor is nice, I often use that as well. DGDGBE is one I've never tried, nor the bottom two. I may have to check that out.
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Triceratopsoil wrote:Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 00:41
| Those three are very good for droning music. I'm especially fond of open G6 on an acoustic guitar. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 00:51
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Standard. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 01:37
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Going from lowest string to highest: C Bb D# C# G# C# (no idea what this tuning is called, used a ton in Sun Kil Moon's stuff. Great for fingerpicking) D A D G B F# (had to use the F# to play one song, sounds good with the drop D too) D standard is always nice too, even if it's fairly basic. ------------- 
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 02:29
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DGDGBD is duh best evah (after standard of course) drop D is also fun as well as open tuning with a slide or for tapping! ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 04:02
| DDDDDD |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 07:21
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Somewhere between loose enough to get the brown notes and so tight you break strings.
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 11:38
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I tune my fretless to BEADGC so it's all fourths. It makes so much more sense than ruining everything with the random major third interval for just one string. Yeah it makes it more difficult to play generic music with open chords, but it's better for everything else. Sometimes I take it up to E and do the same, so EADGCF ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 04 2011 at 11:38
That one is fun too |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 07 2011 at 14:08
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I found a couple more I've used in some notes for songs I had written down a long time ago. FGDGBE is pretty good, and DADEAE is very silly but can work well. |
Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: August 07 2011 at 14:17
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EADGBE, all the time. Open D and open A are fun though. But if I'm feeling adventurous: K L M N# O P ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show) 
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 07 2011 at 14:21
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E. I cut off the other strings. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: August 08 2011 at 13:04
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My guitar is missing two strings and hasn't been tuned with a tuner in months, I twist the knobs randomly. So avant. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: August 10 2011 at 00:14
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DGCGCD DADGAD Most of the time though I'm just in standard, but alternate tunings are a great way to experiment with different textures and tones. ------------- 
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Posted By: mrbean667
Date Posted: August 11 2011 at 02:39
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Standard B all the time but I really love Open C to noodle around with.
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Posted By: Turillazzo
Date Posted: August 11 2011 at 04:20
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Open Hexatonal: EA#DF#CE Once i played this tuning with bottleneck in a jam, with a flute. Never had so much fun. |
Posted By: clarkpegasus4001
Date Posted: August 11 2011 at 13:15
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Bass and guitar always tuned to E flat because of what I play. I like this and standard tuning also. ------------- Tony C. |
Posted By: Flimbau
Date Posted: September 06 2011 at 14:31
| I like open g minor for some of the really nice celtic pieces. Alot of Pentangle/John Renbourn/ Bert Jansch uses this tuning. |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: October 01 2011 at 22:35
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I like ostrich tuning |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: October 17 2011 at 15:01
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Drop D (DADGBE) exclusively for the past 20 years after using it to play along with Helmet (although I first used it to play a 16th Century lute piece when I had classical guitar lessons as a teenager). ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 05:32
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I've got a weird one on one of my electrics: AECGBD Pretty good too. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 06:12
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New favourites of mine: D A D F# B E Nice for playing acoustic fingerpicking stuff with bar chords and slides, writing a ton of stuff in this right now. Another favourite: Not so much a tuning, but a capo on the 4th fret (from the bottom of neck up) so it frets every string except the low E, and then tune (what would normally be) the B string up half a step. Obviously you can tune every string up 2 steps and the B up 2.5 steps but it's a lot easier with the capo, + the smaller frets at that distance make fretting chords a lot easier. Although if you were so inclined to tune up, you can tune it as: E C# F# B E G# If you have light enough string gauges/are game to play with that ridiculous string tension. -------------
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 18 2011 at 12:08
| Every tuning Sonic Youth have ever used, except EADGBE |