go to bottom



Author: Subject: Guitar Tuning
FireStormX
Senior Member






Posts: 268
Registered: 2003-5-13
Location: Oakville, Ontario
Member is offline

Currently listening to:

posted on 2003-5-16 at 16:17
Guitar Tuning

Can somebody tell me how in the world Chris came up with his guitar tuning???





If a man has nothing worth dying for, he is not living. With this one special person, I have learned to live.

View user's profile Email user
Jeff K
Posting Machine






Posts: 823
Registered: 2003-5-9
Member is offline

Currently listening to: Head Automatica

posted on 2003-5-16 at 16:32
You can find different guitar tunings all over the net. Just search "alternate guitar tunings" on google or yahoo or any other search engine.

It's also possible to come up with tunings if you have a very basic knowledge of chord structure, which Chris obviously does.





http://www.westpointrock.com
http://www.myspace.com/westpoint


.WAR IS OVER - If you want it.

View user's profile Visit user's homepage ICQ status of Jeff+K This user has MSN messenger
Greg
Member






Posts: 99
Registered: 2003-5-5
Location: Truro Nova Scotia
Member is offline

Currently listening to: White Elephant, The Livid, Aphasia

posted on 2003-5-16 at 17:40
yeah.. i love chris's guitar tunings.. i use them a lot for writing





www.purevolume.com/edgewise

View user's profile Email user This user has MSN messenger
tremendous
Administrator






Posts: 2366
Registered: 2003-4-15
Location: Vancouver, BC
Member is offline

Currently listening to: Cigar Box Melody EP

posted on 2003-5-16 at 18:31
It's not rare at all. I would go on to say "it was used a lot by x, y and z" but I have no idea which famous bands use it (apart from The Livid) I just know it's pretty common.






View user's profile Visit user's homepage
theo
Recognised Member






Posts: 178
Registered: 2003-5-11
Location: UK
Member is offline

Currently listening to: eric gold/dire straites

posted on 2003-5-16 at 21:12
anyone know of any good bands where they have completely improvised their own tuning??





Alternate-rock king!

http://www.joski.co.uk

http://www.vexred.com

View user's profile Email user
LividChris
of The Livid






Posts: 118
Registered: 2003-5-6
Location: Mississauga
Member is offline

Currently listening to: CHIODOS

posted on 2003-5-16 at 22:24
Hey. The Eb sus4 open is the same as DADGAD, just half a step higher. I never heard of DADGAD until about a year after I started using Eb sus4 open. It actually started when I was in Drop d down a half step but using a capo on the second fret. The problem I ran into was that i wrote a riff (the intro to watch it die) that sounded cool with the two high strings open, but since I had the capo on it I couldn't have them open. So I sawed off one third of the capo. I then realized that I wasn't getting as much sustain when using a capo, so I just decided to tune my guitar to whatever the notes were when I had the capo on. It turned out to be Eb, Bb, Eb, Ab, Bb, Eb.

The tuning for Shaded and a couple of the new songs is Eb minor 7. Jeremy actually made up a slightly different version of that tuning a while ago. I just started writing in it. In his version the high E was tuned to a Db, as opposed to an Eb.

The other tuning I use is just Drop D down a half step.






View user's profile Visit user's homepage
tremendous
Administrator






Posts: 2366
Registered: 2003-4-15
Location: Vancouver, BC
Member is offline

Currently listening to: Cigar Box Melody EP

posted on 2003-5-16 at 22:52
You never play in standard tuning, Chris?






View user's profile Visit user's homepage
Sin Ogaris
Über Poster






Posts: 1557
Registered: 2003-5-13
Location: Australia
Member is offline

Currently listening to: Coheed and Cambria

posted on 2003-5-17 at 01:09
Only guy/band I can think of who uses really outrageous tunings is Don Ross, for Afraid to Dance I thnk it's EBEDBE or something along those lines, it's a known tuning but I can't think of the name. But yeah, stuff like that and also other, even wierder, tunings.






View user's profile Visit user's homepage AIM status of Sin+Ogaris This user has MSN messenger
Adidas
Senior Member






Posts: 407
Registered: 2003-4-20
Location: Arkansas
Member is offline

Currently listening to: A Change Of Pace

posted on 2003-5-17 at 02:58
lost prophets use CGCFAD alot, if u call that "outrageous". its only drop d then drop whole step. i think chris' tunning is probably the weirdest i've seen. but its fun to play around w/ EbBbEbAbBbEb





"What are you doing?" >.>

View user's profile Email user Visit user's homepage AIM status of Adidas This user has MSN messenger Yahoo status of Adidas
tremendous
Administrator






Posts: 2366
Registered: 2003-4-15
Location: Vancouver, BC
Member is offline

Currently listening to: Cigar Box Melody EP

posted on 2003-5-17 at 13:13
I ran out of top E strings once, and was too lazy to go to the shop and get a new one. So I had a 5 string guitar for a couple of weeks, and I wrote a song with it. Now I can't play it with 6, the E string always gets in the way






View user's profile Visit user's homepage
Jeff K
Posting Machine






Posts: 823
Registered: 2003-5-9
Member is offline

Currently listening to: Head Automatica

posted on 2003-5-19 at 18:35
If you're into crazy tunings check out Michael Hedges. He's an acoustic guitar virtuoso.





http://www.westpointrock.com
http://www.myspace.com/westpoint


.WAR IS OVER - If you want it.

View user's profile Visit user's homepage ICQ status of Jeff+K This user has MSN messenger
dr_booyeah
Newbie






Posts: 1
Registered: 2003-5-20
Location: Toronto
Member is offline

Currently listening to:

posted on 2003-5-20 at 23:53
interesting tunings

It's nice to see a band (the Livid) that uses some interesting tunings. I'm in a band who uses some interesting tunings as well.
ie: D G D G A# D
C G D G A# C
C G D G G C
open C is always nice as well
D A D G A D is a favourite as well.

Anyways, you guys are sounding good. Take it easy.






View user's profile


go to top