Alternate Tunings

[smopo24]

or you can just do it like wes borland and tune all of your strings to f; yea, limp bizkit!

[Professor Riffs]

Originally Posted by smopo24

or you can just do it like wes borland and tune all of your strings to f; yea, limp bizkit!

Or you could go his route of the 4-string guitar tuned F# F# B E. As much as LB totally sucks every suckable thing, the 2 unison strings right next to each other can be pretty lethal.

If I had any pride, it would also sucks to admit I like something done by Limp Bizkit. But, I don't.

[lucidlou]

I do mess around with the Jimmy Page inspired DADGAD tuning every blue moon. I used to know the Rain Song in it's entirety, but it's now long forgotten.

[dagosto]

Rain Song is actually not that hard to play in standard tuning.

[lucidlou]

Originally Posted by dagosto

Rain Song is actually not that hard to play in standard tuning.

Yeah, but it never sounds quite right in standard tuning IMO.

[plishous]

I don't mess around much with alt-tunings but when i do two that I enjoy are:
D A D A B E, And the tuning of a twelve string on a 6 string guitar
Try it some time...

[Nubus]

one thing i like is when the band is in tune with each other, but a bit off from standard 440Hz = A, specially from song to song. makes it alive.

[smopo24]

they used to pitch songs higher a few cents by speeding the tape machine to give songs more of a sense of immediacy and make the males sound younger (to appeal to a teen audiance for a greater period of time).

[Drengur Grar]

My two favorites are: Mauna Loa tuning...which is ...i believe in the key of C or C# ...
and open E tuning which is.. EBEG#AbE I believe...Bo Diddley used to use it quite a bit..i think mr. Keef Richards did as well as my hero Johnny Marr...you can hear it especially on "Headmasters Ritual"

[smopo24]

i always heard that johnny marr just tuned 2 full steps up, with no capo! he may have used more than one, but "the headmaster ritual" is a great tune.....all of meat is murder (with the exception of the title track) is flawless.