ALTERNATE TUNINGS DATABASE

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Here are my favorites -- add yours and maybe make suggestions about chord voicings:

DGDGBD (alt. low C or E)

CACGCE

DGDGCD

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

FAGFAG

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 28 August 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

CAFFEE

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 28 August 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

GAEDAD

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote a song with this tuning:

EG#DG#BD#

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I was always amused by the fact that a lot of Nirvana songs were in DGCFAD.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 September 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day I was playing around with this tuning where everything was tuned down two steps except the D & G strings, so that would be um CFDGGC (with the two G's tuned to the same octave).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

DDDDDD!!!! altho it doesnt last long

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Heh, I once tuned my rickenbacker 12 string to e/e/e/e/e/e. It sounded fucking awesome!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

CGCGCC

― rich henderson, Sunday, 23 October 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

gDGAD is the tuning required to make your banjo hopelessly Appalachian.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

CGCGCE or CCCGCE
DGDGBD or DGDGGD
DADF#AD or DADFAD or DADGAD
EBEG#BE
EAEAC#E

― amon (eman), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

BAGDAD iraqi tuning *ba dum tissss*

― amon (eman), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

DADF#BD
EAC#C#BE

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

I believe that A Perfect Teenhood by Trail of Dead is AAAAEA. I like this because it sounds shit up until the exact point you switch the distortion box on.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

EEEEEE

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

XZVWTT

― EEEEEE????????????????, Monday, 24 October 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I like tuning down a whole step to DGCFAD. I've set my SG up with a set of 11s and my P-Bass to this tuning. Going down to D seems like a good compromise, as the guitar is not encroching as much on the bass. I also like that everything that you would play in E or A in standard are now in D or G. Going to that low D power chord sounds really ace.

Some people pull it off, but going much lower than that you have to start putting those thick ropes on the guitars and I think the low strings just do not resonate right. I've messed with a couple of sets of those Ernie Ball Not Even Slinky Stringss tuning down to C with an attempt to find that High On Fire kind of sound, but I don't like how the strings on the guitar feel.

― earlnash, Monday, 24 October 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. I play 11s a lot of the time even when I'm tuned trad. I can get a little heavy handed...

If you're going to do something like tune all the way down to C# or C, you're much better off with a longer scale guitar like a Strat. On a Les Paul or a Jag or Mustang the strings will be much more floppy.

You could always try picking up a Baritone. Most of those are tuned B to B stock, and I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to tune them -up- to C or C#.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i use this tuning a lot. it sounds nice and muddy.
E G# B G# B E

― 6335, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

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