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I use both but prefer drop tuning (6th and 4th string octave). I much prefer the interval pattern it gives.
Let's talk drop-tunings
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Like Jeff, I think the drop tuning thing really facilities a chordal playing style. I rarely ever do that "barre the power chord with one finger" thing when I drop tune these days, I tend to just mainly fuck around with chords that you can't hit/are almost impossible in standard interval tuning.
For the most part I mainly a standard interval guy.
In fact I HATE using tunings below E standard (or well, B standard, since I don't actually own a 6 string anymore, I play 7 strings only now) unless it's drop D or drop A.
Whenever I tune down all the strings even while still in a standard interval tuning, it just throws my ears off entirely.
What I mean is, I guess I'll play the 9th fret of the E string and my ear expects to hear a C# note, but if I were tuned down to say, C standard, I wouldn't hear that note and in my head it feels and sounds wrong to me.
Drop tunings I can use, because I can constantly reference against the higher D (for drop D) and A (for drop A) strings, but otherwise my guitars are always tuned B E A D G B E unless I play anything in drop D or drop A.
For the most part I mainly a standard interval guy.
In fact I HATE using tunings below E standard (or well, B standard, since I don't actually own a 6 string anymore, I play 7 strings only now) unless it's drop D or drop A.
Whenever I tune down all the strings even while still in a standard interval tuning, it just throws my ears off entirely.
What I mean is, I guess I'll play the 9th fret of the E string and my ear expects to hear a C# note, but if I were tuned down to say, C standard, I wouldn't hear that note and in my head it feels and sounds wrong to me.
Drop tunings I can use, because I can constantly reference against the higher D (for drop D) and A (for drop A) strings, but otherwise my guitars are always tuned B E A D G B E unless I play anything in drop D or drop A.
Lasse Lammert
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for my own stuff I'm suing way too many 4th and 3rds, so drop tuning is not an option.
another Band I'm playing live guits for plays in drop-tuning....it definitely makes stuff easier, but it somehow completely fucks with my mind..I just can't get used to it....I never know which key I'm in etc...
I can't even solo on the high 5 strings, cause somehow I can't really see the patterns like I'm used to...fortunately I'm only playing rhythms in that band
another Band I'm playing live guits for plays in drop-tuning....it definitely makes stuff easier, but it somehow completely fucks with my mind..I just can't get used to it....I never know which key I'm in etc...
I can't even solo on the high 5 strings, cause somehow I can't really see the patterns like I'm used to...fortunately I'm only playing rhythms in that band
abt
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Guitarists have a habit of finding the root note on the 5th and 6th string, if this is you then think of the 4th string as you would the 6th you'll be used to the notes on the 6th string in no time.
Lasse Lammert
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nah, I don't really have a particular string I'm finding the rootnote on..often it's the second or third string even....the problem is just that I know "something is fucked up and not like it should be" that kinda keeps me from playing freely.
I know I could get used to that very quickly if I'd be mainly playing dop tunings, but since I need the 4th chords etc on the two low strings I'm 95% of the time playing standard tuning.
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I've been playing in a drop tuning ( drop C) for many years, right now I'm on standard B and well, riffs are really different in style between both tunings.
I don't think drop tunings are for numetal n00bs, and if it was, I couldn't care less. Nobody complains about devin townsend using a folk tuning or loomis usign the same tuning korn used ( also on a seven string)
Bah, give it a try marcus, it opens a lot of possibilities IMO
I don't think drop tunings are for numetal n00bs, and if it was, I couldn't care less. Nobody complains about devin townsend using a folk tuning or loomis usign the same tuning korn used ( also on a seven string)
Bah, give it a try marcus, it opens a lot of possibilities IMO
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I play in C standard.....it's comfortable for me, and I'm used to standard intervals. I find drop tunings too hard to set up properly on my guitar...but maybe I could just have some more patience.
Similarly to playing in drop tunings, .....I usually use 4ths anyway. It's kinda my thing....not because it's easier to bar then hit a power chord.....hell their both easy, but 4ths give serious chunk and heaviness...
So if I were to drop tune, most I my stuff would have to be played as a regular minor 3rd.....
just my 2 cents
Cheers
Similarly to playing in drop tunings, .....I usually use 4ths anyway. It's kinda my thing....not because it's easier to bar then hit a power chord.....hell their both easy, but 4ths give serious chunk and heaviness...
So if I were to drop tune, most I my stuff would have to be played as a regular minor 3rd.....
just my 2 cents
Cheers
STINNETT
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When I lay a finger across the E and A strings, I want to hear an inverted fifth. Anything else just feels screwed up to me. So with the exception of when I play a few Van Halen tunes, I never play in drop tunings.
I'm also one of those weirdos around here who greatly prefers the sound of a guitar in standard tuning.
I'm also one of those weirdos around here who greatly prefers the sound of a guitar in standard tuning.
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When I lay a finger across the E and A strings, I want to hear an inverted fifth. Anything else just feels screwed up to me. So with the exception of when I play a few Van Halen tunes, I never play in drop tunings.
I'm also one of those weirdos around here who greatly prefers the sound of a guitar in standard tuning.
But surely you have a spare guitar tuned down a whole step for those Chuck Schuldiner days?
STINNETT
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It's been ages, but I think I do have a guitar tuned to D standard. I used it last year to play with Killarus a few times. (Including "Trapped in a Corner" when they played a show with Obscura
), and I haven't touched it since.
RemoWilliams
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It's been ages, but I think I do have a guitar tuned to D standard. I used it last year to play with Killarus a few times. (Including "Trapped in a Corner" when they played a show with Obscura
Sweeet. "Trapped in a Corner" has to have some of my most favorite solos ever. My Andy LaRocque worship has been building.
But I guess to be a bit more on topic, I have my guitars I have one tuned to standard and the other a half step down.
In the 2 bands I've been in, we've always played in drop tunings. Drop B and dropped C for my first band, and now just dropped C for the band I've been in the last few years. Playing in standard tuning almost feels odd nowadays, unless I'm playing an acoustic.
My band toyed with the idea of playing in standard tuning or at least standard intervals tuned down a whole step (DGCFAD), but I always ended up sounding like a bad 80's thrash band ripoff. In Dropped C, now I just sound like a more modern thrash ripoff, which I guess is better!
My band toyed with the idea of playing in standard tuning or at least standard intervals tuned down a whole step (DGCFAD), but I always ended up sounding like a bad 80's thrash band ripoff. In Dropped C, now I just sound like a more modern thrash ripoff, which I guess is better!
Mago
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When I started playing the e-guitar Drop-C# tuning was my standard because of Disturbed mainly.
Nowadays I'm in D# Standard 90%.
you can definitly do a lot different things with Drop tuning (harmony in chords you cant do that easily in standard tuning).
but somehow standard tuning feel more like "riffing" to me than drop tuning...and the songs tend to sound quite the same and metalcorish everytime I do something in drop
I think only one drop song will make it on the album. but it's nice to jam around.
easier to play but more difficult to write songs for me.
Nowadays I'm in D# Standard 90%.
you can definitly do a lot different things with Drop tuning (harmony in chords you cant do that easily in standard tuning).
but somehow standard tuning feel more like "riffing" to me than drop tuning...and the songs tend to sound quite the same and metalcorish everytime I do something in drop
I think only one drop song will make it on the album. but it's nice to jam around.
easier to play but more difficult to write songs for me.
GarethSE
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i find that drop d is the lowest that i am willing to go, anything lower and you risk being stuck in smuck. but then again i really like notey, fast riffing and shit, and played through my cheap ass gear, it sounds like a sphere of mud. plus yu cat get that high and tight sound/tone of the 80s shred, which to me is sooooo nice.
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drew_drummer
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I was a standard-tuning guy for several years. thought the same as you, marcus. Drop is nu-metal. I seem to get much more ideas out of drop-tunings lately.
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