Guitarist Guild: A Musical Community Beyond Strings
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mick on February 06, 2016, 06:56:25 PM
Been playing around with alternate guitar tuning, my favourite by far is drop D. What's yours, and why?
Here's a couple of youtube vids using the drop D tuning method.
https://youtu.be/mJcZIsQaWwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NnTh9rPCg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38mxf6q25c4
Today, I've been experimenting with Open G tuning. It's interesting and fun to say the least. You can easily get some good rhythm stuff going with one or two fingers. Here's a youtube vid I found to show you what I'm on about.
https://youtu.be/szeklc_Pnck
Drop D is fun, especially with some distortion. I like open tunings for clean with chorus effect, although I usually don't know what I am playing, but I hate retuning. One of my excuses why I need more guitars. Multiple tunings of each guitar at the ready.
I am still a little confused on 12 string tuning. Most twelve strings are tuned to D (two steps down on all strings, not just a dropped E to D), but transcriptions usually show them tuned as standard and no mention of capoes, nor have I seen anyone using one. Maybe I just didn't notice?