Mikael has been giving bits info on each interview lately about their next ablum. So far he's only worked on writting 1 song so far, 5 min. of it at least. Also the next release will be his first time using "open-tuning" on the guitars.
open guitar tunings being used for next album
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Leper_/-\ffinity
Child of The Grave
unknown
fuck ftagn
The Poona of Peshwa
Blood Glutton
unknown said:
Care to explain what open tuning is? is it like dropping down the lowest string a whole step or something?
Leper_/-\ffinity
Child of The Grave
Xes
Tahssa
StationaryTraveller said:
Open tuning basically means that you tune each string so that when you strum all of the strings together without fretting it sounds a chord.
Popular open tunings are Open D and Open G. You can have open anything though.
Example: Open D
d (high)
A
F#
D
A
D (low)
Open G:
d or g (high)
B
G
D
G
D (low)
Of course you can have all kinds of variations even in those keys, such as in Open G people often tune the high D all the way up to a G (be careful, you can easily break a string doing that).
JoeVice
Member
i hope you weren't serious there lepper affinity.....dropping the low string down one step would be a dropped tuning....opeth uses that tuning on a few songs (demon of the fall and blackwater park).....open tuning would be setting the open position of every string to form a chord when played...open.....its pretty cool....but like learning an entire new instrument.....depends on what tuning your in....there are endless possibilities.
the_drip
Martriden K
open tuning is a bunch of fifths like open C is
C G C G C E
STrapping young lad uses open tuning.
here's a couple others
Open-D D A D F#A D
Open-E E B E G#B E
Open-G D G D G B D
Open-A E A E A C#E
note:...for 7 string guitars
C G C G C E
STrapping young lad uses open tuning.
here's a couple others
Open-D D A D F#A D
Open-E E B E G#B E
Open-G D G D G B D
Open-A E A E A C#E
note:...for 7 string guitars
Leper_/-\ffinity
Child of The Grave
Leper_/-\ffinity said:
Hehehe.....what an idiot, doesn't even know what an open tuning is :Smug: ...
Really guys, I had no clue, I thought it was the same as dropped tunings.....sorry....
wankerness
Member
ARGH, I guess this will be the first Opeth album I can't play along to then. I hate Floyd Rose Bridges, as well as open tunings.
Mayh
Who's that Melinda person
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Oh damn you people that associate open tunings with NU-metal (think country or folk music)... It´s not like drop D as has been explained above. This is very interesting, finally Mikael is starting experimenting with diffrent tunings, I´m getting excited about this new album !
Ermz
¯\(°_o)/¯
Sux that I won't be able to learn the material, but I'm hoping he can really do something new with the tunings.
opethpainter
the psychedelic servant
Just because he says he is using open tuning doesn't mean he is going to use it for every song guys...He could easily use it for an acoustic song or an acoustic instrumental and the rest would still be E
the_drip said:
does that mean they'll be sounding anything like the guitar sound SYL creates?...sorry for my ignorance in this matter but i kno nothing about guitar tunign and such...i just listen to the music and if i like it then its good to me...lol
if anyone could just tell me some other bands that do this i'd appreciate it
btw the new hypocrisy fuckin kicks ass
Demilich
Remember
Does anyone else agree with me that experimenting like this sounds like a fucking good idea? I'm looking forward to another unique and different sounding Opeth album, as so far, even the ones everyone says are so similar (Orchid-Morningrise and SL-BWP-D1) sound very different to me, each having it's own special atmosphere and musical differences.
Nuts to hoping it turns out as Mike has said it will. Let's just hope it turns out the BEST the band can make it!
Nuts to hoping it turns out as Mike has said it will. Let's just hope it turns out the BEST the band can make it!
the_drip
Martriden K
yeah...they're all different..but they all still sound like the same band.
which is a good thing IMO.
I want to see Opeth do this Black Metal Concept album, that Mikael mentions he's dreaming up on teh lamentations DVD.
Isahnn can come do some guest vocals!
which is a good thing IMO.
I want to see Opeth do this Black Metal Concept album, that Mikael mentions he's dreaming up on teh lamentations DVD.
Isahnn can come do some guest vocals!
Evil Ernie
Ungodly freak, defiler
Mickeal as always been exploring the various unexplored capacities of the guitar. I don't remind of any metal band using open tuning, and I think it is a really good idea. This band have always been about being different from the straight forward death metal band, and taking the originality a step further is just going to ad to the uniqueness (is this a word?) of this great band.
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