Question for Mike about guitar tuning on the new record

[GraveyardVision]

maybe one song with a different tunning.. Drop D !! no more than that
I think that other tunnings are limiting the music

 

[soundave]

maybe one song with a different tunning.. Drop D !! no more than that
I think that other tunnings are limiting the music

That's pretty funny.

 

[all_sins_undone]

I think people caring about guitar tuning is funny in general

 

[Arjen W.]

maybe one song with a different tunning.. Drop D !! no more than that
I think that other tunnings are limiting the music

Err, why. Sticking to just one tuning forever limits the music more, don't you think?

 

[Mikael Åkerfeldt]

Hi guys!

All but one is standard A tuning, the odd one is just a drop D. The guitars both sounds and intonates better so it was a choice from early on.
I like opening tunings though which is why I used it on some of the GR songs.

Cheers
Mike

 

[in limbow]

Standard A? Is that standard EADGBE or something different?

 

[all_sins_undone]

was about to ask the same

 

[wankerness]

Typically, A standard is standard tuning dropped to A aka ADGCEA which would be totally badass imho. But maybe he just meant standard tuning.

 

[in limbow]

That would be kind of odd, and nu-metalish so I would assume he just meant standard E.

 

[wankerness]

That would be kind of odd, and nu-metalish so I would assume he just meant standard E.

I like how everyone is like OMG DOWNTUNE = NU METAL when most every death metal/melodic death metal band on the planet massively downtunes. The only bands I can think of that play in A standard are like, Nile. Not Linkin Park. If you're going to associate a tuning with nu metal, associate drop B (not B standard, most bad nu metal bands are too crappy to play powerchords with more than one finger) with it. Actually maybe Nile plays in drop A cause they're pretty terrible, but hey, point is a lot of bands downtune massively that aren't nu-metal. I think the most common tuning for melo-death bands seems to be B standard (BEADF#B), and this is just the slightly lower version. They'd have to use baritone guitars to not have messed up intonation though so I'm thinking he jsut for some reason called the normal EADGBE a standard.

 

[Arjen W.]

I'm pretty sure he meant standard E, which is handy in a way, won't have to struggle with odd tunings again to learn the new Opeth riffs, hehe.

 

[Lasse]

So, opeth should the same thing..?

Nu-peth

I never said that!

 

[wankerness]

I'm pretty sure he meant standard E, which is handy in a way, won't have to struggle with odd tunings again to learn the new Opeth riffs, hehe.

Yeah, with my stupid floyd rose guitar I never ever felt like playing the GR stuff because of the time it would take to get in the right tuning which would then be useless for playing anything else ;_;

 

[Mikael Åkerfeldt]

Yes, it means standard E. I use to say A for some reason...

 

[Scherprechter]

Well, regardless, here is some Opeth transposed to A:

http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=audio&file=opeth_in_a.mp3

Corpsegrinder Åkerfeldt

 

[all_sins_undone]

lol

 

[all_sins_undone]

Yes, it means standard E. I use to say A for some reason...

word

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Standard A? what happened to Standard E?

Im not a big fan of drop D either, but I have faith in Opeths creative use of the Drop D tunings unlike other bands that drown in it like Devildriver.

 

[Maggai]

I also say standard A sometimes. I think it's because that's the tone i learned to tune the guitar after. The tuningfork with the A note, the sound in the phone A etc.

And it's really annoying that people scream out NUMETAL if drop-d or lower tunings are mentioned. Bands were tuning down way before numetal was thought of.

But now we know the tunings for the new Opeth album! Thanks Mikael!

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Thats awesome, standard E is the best man, very cool news.