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 Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:23 pm
All I know how to play in is standard tuning...Could you list what notes to tune to in each setting? I might join a friends band as a rhythem guitarist.
Just in case, I play a an LTD ESP Viper-50FM on a one foot tall Marshall amp.
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:24 pm
Tune your low e down to a D. You are now in drop D. A bar over the first three strings gives you a power chord. Makes rhythm that much easier.
There are many different tunings you can make. You just ahve to figure out how to make chords from them.
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:37 am
Yeah, you can tune your guitar to any wierd or wonderful combination that the strings with allow. You just have to figure the chords out.
A useful tip, when tuning your guitar to drop D, fret the second fret and tune that to your low e. You'll then be in drop D.
Or if you're tuning by ear, fret th seventh fret on your low e and tune that to your A string.
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:59 am
Or if your good like me, hit the your E and A strings with your pick and drop the E until you hit the sweet spot for the power chord wink
If your into blues you can try open-G or open-D, which are both used commonly in slide playing. If your into NOT blues (lol), then you can try stuff like C standard (not sure how to tune to this), which is used all the time by the band Cold, or drop-C, in which you basically drop the pitch of all your strings by a whole step, then drop the sixth string down yet another whole step. VERY low, crunchy tuning. Used by alot of metal bands. Rammstein recently switched over to using drop-C when the Rosentrot album came out.
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:32 pm
you can go an octive lower........that's what a lot of metal bands do
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:43 pm
creecher08 you can go an octive lower........that's what a lot of metal bands do I've never seen any metal bands go an octave lower. You'd have to put like 16 guage strings on just to keep any semblance of playability! It would also cause the guitars to get lost underneath the bass, causing a muddy mess, more often than not.
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:48 pm
You could use a capo:
They make your guitar chords sound clearer and easier to hear.
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:38 pm
Um, my guitar is usually in Drop D, or CGCFAD. To get the CGCFAD, get in Drop D, then tune like you normally would.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:41 am
headbanger29 Um, my guitar is usually in Drop D, or CGCFAD. To get the CGCFAD, get in Drop D, then tune like you normally would. That's actually called Drop C unless I'm mistaken... Drop D would be DADGBE.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:06 am
hylianhero27 headbanger29 Um, my guitar is usually in Drop D, or CGCFAD. To get the CGCFAD, get in Drop D, then tune like you normally would. That's actually called Drop C unless I'm mistaken... Drop D would be DADGBE. Yeah thats drop C. If you notice, every string is tuned down a whole step from E standard tuning, except for that low 'C', which would be two whole steps down from E standard. That = drop C cool
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:07 am
Territorial Art You could use a capo:
They make your guitar chords sound clearer and easier to hear. Though they're more for key changing wink
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:16 pm
Thanks guys, you've really helped me. I think I'll use Drop D...Is that what many metal bands use?
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:38 pm
Drop D is where it's at if you're playing metal.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:00 pm
Yeah drop D is pretty standard for most metal. Alot of heavier metal bands are starting to switch over to Drop C though, as well.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:26 pm
What tuning is this?
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