guitar tuning on Fiction

[Firefest9]

Is it me, or did they use drop B alot on this album?

 

[Caotico]

You, sir, are correct.

We used drop B tuning for about half of the songs. The rest is regular C# tuning as usual.

 

[stardrowned]

All of dt songs use D# tuning! I'm quite certain. Did you change the tuning on this album?

In Flames on Lunar Stain is D but afterwards they changed to C.

 

[Villain]

All of dt songs use D# tuning! I'm quite certain.

Wrong. I'm not a guitar-person, but some albums have different tunings for sure. This was clarified in the old FAQ, but it is no longer up at the DT site and I can't find it right now (much less remember all of it). But as Niklas just said, their "regular" tuning is C#.

-Villain

 

[Killermik]

skydancer - C# of chaos - E gallery - D# enter - C# mind's I - C# projector - C# haven - D# damage - C#

I also miss the old FAQ I wish I had saved more than 2 sentences.

 

[Taliesin]

Dropped tuning... I knew something smelled fishy :Smug:

 

[stardrowned]

Whoa ! I never knew that, I just supposed that the tuning is always D# cause the only song I play for them is Punish My Heaven, so I thought the rest would be the same as it it

 

[King Chaos]

Weird. My band also uses C# for all our songs. Not drop C#, just actual C#, F#, B, E, G#, C#... By no real influence from DT, as far as I'm consciously aware. This probably means I can play along to the damage done album using my own tones.

 

[Dark_Silence]

and on the Live Damage DVD, they play all the songs in C#, even Lethe and Punish my Heaven...
I also like to play in that tuning. It sounds great for arpeggios.
Once I tried to play some Metallica stuffs with that tuning because i was too lazy tu re-tune it, and it gives the songs a kind of sad feeling.

 

[Cuthalion]

I have always liked playing in C or C# but that means you have to use wider strings, and that on the other hand means that you can forget about playing songs in E since the tension will make the sound not as good and it also hurts your fingers. Unfortunately i have only one electric guitar if you can call it that and i have enough trouble with playing some of our own songs in dropped D and then tuning to E standard and then again to dropped D and so on.

 

[Doom]

Vaguely relevant to this topic, but: I'm sure I read somewhere that DT put all their guitar tabs up on their site, but I can't for the life of me find them. Am I being stupid?!

 

[Dark_Silence]

nah, they dont do it anymore... but take a look here on the old website
http://www.darktranquillity.com/oldie/media/tabulature.html
there are some tabs, but they were not written by the bandmembers themselves (exept for a very few ones written by Martin H.). Most of them are in text format... which sucks. I prefer guitarpro tabs.