mine :

E B E A A D

kerble wrote:Fun way to confuse yer fingers. I had this 12string tuned weird and the harmonics were fun to fourtrack with. I hunted this info down from an old AP about the tunings Polvo used. Figured this'd be a good place for it.


On Exploded Drawing and This Eclipse they used E B A G A F.

Some of Today's Active Lifestyles and Celebrate the New Dark Age were done with lowG G C C C E as well as them just tuning down half a step.

Cor-Crane secret was done in D A A G D D,

with "Vibracobra" and "Lazy Comet" done in D A# A# # D D


Faiz

How do you do this on a 12-string? Shockingly (um, not really) I have never, ever tuned my 12 string. I don't know how! I just made the heavy strings E, and the thinner strings an E one octave above it (standard Glenn Branca tuning, for me)

shagboy wrote:

sndo wrote:CGDGBE
This tuning is like playing a classical instrument because of the first few intervals being in fifths. Like having drop D in the first two positions with the ability to add a major or minor third on top when playing in the first position. 9ths are easy to reach in both positions.

love that one... use it all the time. you can easily make a lot of great chords that sound unfamiliar to rock listeners weaned on standard.

love em or hate em, at least half of all pavement songs use that tuning

tons of newer sonic youth songs are in this one (or are easily playable) too. i love it.

i started to play guitar strictly because of sonic youth, so the very first thing i did was tuning a classic nylon string guitar (which i borrowed from a friend, i still have laying around somwhere) to GGDDEbEb. it stayed in this tuning for half a year or more. oh how jeleaus i was about people who were able to play popular songs with open chords and impress chicks with it.

i remeber making a pretty interesting tuning based on GDD in the middle, with high strings being dissonant and the low.. uh. good advice: after you move to another one, write this shit down.

A vs B wrote:and I used to use Drop D religiously
Double drop D is pretty sweet too
or Dminor variants

D A D F A A
D A D F D D

I've used these a ton...but now the guitarist I play with (now that I'm mainly playing bass) is using DADGGG almost exlusively.

tuning a bass up a minor 3rd to G sounds pretty kickass.

burun wrote:

kerble wrote:Fun way to confuse yer fingers. I had this 12string tuned weird and the harmonics were fun to fourtrack with. I hunted this info down from an old AP about the tunings Polvo used. Figured this'd be a good place for it.

How do you do this on a 12-string? Shockingly (um, not really) I have never, ever tuned my 12 string. I don't know how! I just made the heavy strings E, and the thinner strings an E one octave above it (standard Glenn Branca tuning, for me)

Shit. I have the tuning on a piece of paper somewhere. If I find it, I'll post it up. I believe you are tuning the 12 string in the correct (Note + One Octave up) manner. I think the tuning I was using was basically the same way (note and one octave up), but just wasn't in EADGBE.


Also, sitar tunings are fun for guitar:

GCCFCC


brrrrrooooooong!

Other than drop D, which hardly counts, I've never gotten into alternate tunings that much. I'm not agin' 'em, I just like the challenge of coming up with interesting stuff while staying within the parameters of ye olde standard tuning. Though occasionally I've tuned the strings fifths apart like a cello or violin.

Though coincidentally, just right now I picked up my guitar to find my G and high E knocked down a half step, and it's kind of interesting.

Dropping the low E to B is fun. Soundgarden did that a lot, such as on "Rusty Cage". (Or you could be like Korn and buy a 7-string.) There is a song on Badmotorfinger, "Mind Riot" I believe it is, where every string is tuned to E.

I would like to try tuning every string down an octave, but you'd need some heavy-ass strings for that to work.

lemur68 wrote:Dropping the low E to B is fun. Soundgarden did that a lot, such as on "Rusty Cage". (Or you could be like Korn and buy a 7-string.) There is a song on Badmotorfinger, "Mind Riot" I believe it is, where every string is tuned to E.

A-B-B-A is way better than the Soundgarden tuning.

kerble wrote:A-B-B-A is way better than the Soundgarden tuning.

Bwahahahahaha.

I remember reading once how LiLiPuT named "Heidi's Head" that because the guitar was tuned to E, A, and D.

Not sure if it is true, or if I am remembering it correctly.

burun wrote:

kerble wrote:A-B-B-A is way better than the Soundgarden tuning.

Bwahahahahaha.

I remember reading once how LiLiPuT named "Heidi's Head" that because the guitar was tuned to E, A, and D.

Not sure if it is true, or if I am remembering it correctly.

It spells out a chord progression in the song, H being, I think, G? in German notation. It's mentioned in the liner notes of the KRS release.