Favorite weird guitar tuning.

[Sophii]

I've battled with my guitar multiple times to find one set tuning.

Unfortunately I have Nick Drake syndrome and tune my guitar to all sorts of weird shit. So my discussion is: Do you have a favorite weird/open/extended tuning you like to play in?

Right now I'm really digging CGDGBE for a nice open sound. It keeps the high end high and the low end fucking monstrous.

 

[MaverickStang]

As I Lay Dying - Parallels DGDFAD instead of DGCFAD


AGCFAD

No it's not me. I'm just showing it has been done.
For some reason it creates a 7-string sound almost.

(CGCGCEb)
File Below (It's really in CGCFAD-Drop C), but it creates a different atmosphere.

 

[Sophii]

AGCFAD is one of my favorites. Its a classic Mastodon tuning and great for djent styled stuff.

 

[Paul Reed]

H setup is also not bad.

 

[Sophii]

Hm? H setup?

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

BEADGF#B, Lead Belly's tuning, amazing for spicing up anything blues or folk.

 

[Sophii]

So 7 string B standard but shift the bottom two strings down to B thats on a 6 string? Interesting.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Yep. Huge part of why no one sounds like Lead Belly, they aren't aware of that tuning when trying to play like him.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

GCDGBE and DCDGBE are really intesting for blues stuff, particularly E pentatonic riffs.

 

[Sophii]

Holy shit now those are some funky lookin tunings.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

I usually use them for Elmore James and John Lee Hooker riffs, really dirty boogie stuff.

 

[MaverickStang]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings

I think this is all of them? There is another wiki-page, but it doesn't list a variety of different tunings. I believe this is the wiki-page you want to find different tunings.

 

[Sophii]

^ that wiki page is my bible.

 

[PrincessHades]

Whichever one won't warp my guitar neck.

 

[Sophii]

So none of them? :^)

 

[PrincessHades]

So none of them? :^)

I tune to drop D when a song requires it, but that's about it.

I have a second guitar (75 dollar 1980 Sears storebrand) that I usually keep either a half step or a whole step down.

 

[Sophii]

Smart idea.
I'm too much of a dumbass to own more than one guitar.

I mainly keep it in E standard, but all my old stuff is written in D standard or Drop C, so I tune accordingly:

EADGBE
DADGBE
CGDGBE

 

[Bryant]

I've battled with my guitar multiple times to find one set tuning.
Unfortunately I have Nick Drake syndrome and tune my guitar to all sorts of weird shit. So my discussion is: Do you have a favorite weird/open/extended tuning you like to play in?

Right now I'm really digging CGDGBE for a nice open sound. It keeps the high end high and the low end fucking monstrous.

You probably think I am being silly, but I am being 100% serious......... go find a Goo Goo Dolls forum and look for guitar stuff. Their lead guitarist/singer, Johnny Rzeznik is not a virtuoso by any stretch of the imagination, but he is very inventive and uses lots of bizarre tunings with success. No reason his stuff won't translate into metal.

Bryant

 

[Sophii]

You probably think I am being silly, but I am being 100% serious......... go find a Goo Goo Dolls forum and look for guitar stuff. Their lead guitarist/singer, Johnny Rzeznik is not a virtuoso by any stretch of the imagination, but he is very inventive and uses lots of bizarre tunings with success. No reason his stuff won't translate into metal.

Bryant

Johnny Rzeznik is a killer musician. And I actually really like the Goo Goo Dolls. I mean, Iris is in an absolutely bizarre tuning. BDDDdd.

 

[Zonfar]

Man, I didn't know odd tunings we're so popular. I typically use just drop tunings anywhere from drop D on my 6 string, to drop A on my seven string, to Double drop E on my 8 string.

The idea of tuning the guitar in any other way so all the scales i've learned wouldn't fit! But I guess thats how a lot of people feel about drop tunings in general who just stick to standard tunings