Dead Winter
STAHP
Drop C# is just Drop Db...it's the same thing. I think what he was saying was that they always play in a semi-tone below whatever the whole tone...whether that whole tone is B, C, D, or E, it's gonna be lowered half a step every time. Bands who have singers who typically sing a little flat always do this. Alice in Chains is another example. They usually play in either Eb or drop Db.
Either way it could be sharp or flat. D# is Eb, C# is Db, A# is Bb, etc, etc.
Even if he plays it in dropped tuning, you don't have to drop your tuning...just tune all the strings down and use a power chord instead of one finger...that's what I do. I'm fucked up, though...I must be a savant or something because I play worse with drop tunings. My hands feel more "balanced", for lack of a better word in normal tuning, even if I'm tuned down. We tune to C normal and use either a six string tuned to B or a seven string for the song Artificial. Tried just dropping the top string to B but I was all fucked up...I'm such a retard.
neal
wizard in black
Lunar Still
Doodle drawrer
Det Som, your strong opinions wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so totally wrong all the time.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
DreamNeonBlack
Member
Det Som Engang Var
Viking Bastard
Beleive me guys, I love Seed Awakening. I fucking love EOR.
That post originally only said "Psalm of Shitdia", but I thought "Shit Awakening" sounded kind of funny so I ninja-edited it.
That post originally only said "Psalm of Shitdia", but I thought "Shit Awakening" sounded kind of funny so I ninja-edited it.
neal
wizard in black
but it also lowered the impact of 'shitdia'
you have to pick and choose and not be too repetitive for maximum comedy
you have to pick and choose and not be too repetitive for maximum comedy
Det Som Engang Var
Viking Bastard
I did think of that, neal. But by that time it would have said this post has been edited and that would have brought it down further.
derek
Grey Eminence
neal
wizard in black
Chromatose
Squid pro quo
reese_apoc
May the HORNS be with you
NK
Complete Bastard
There was no dropped tuning on any of the Nevermore stuff I worked on. By dropped tuning, I mean the bottom string dropped down a fifth. Most of the time, if not all, they tuned to Eb, so the guitar is a semitone down from standard E. On Jeff's solo album, the guitar is tuned to Bb, a semitone lower than standard B. There's no dropped tuning on that either.
reese_apoc
May the HORNS be with you
from the badass producer himself.
rock:I could have sworn the same thing. any thoughts, NK?
Det Som Engang Var
Viking Bastard
Dead Winter
STAHP
But if there was a drop tuning on the 7 string guitars, then they would've dropped the top string to A. Are you sure you're not just talking about tuning down? Tuning down isn't the same as dropped tuning.
Det Som Engang Var
Viking Bastard
Well, on a six string guitar. I even remember Loomis whining about how he used drop C# for Lydia in Guitar World.
NK
Complete Bastard
All the Nevermore string tunings are in normal ratio to each other, i.e. no individual string is dropped at all. The guitar may be downtuned overall, but that's not the same thing as a dropped tuning, where the bottom string is often tuned down another full tone. This was done a lot for slide guitar back in the day, and also in the nu metal era as well.
