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Re: (OT) Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings



My favourite tuning is to line-up all the pegs in a straight line, parallel to the headstock.
 
Not sure why but it usually sounds better than having all the pegs go perpindicular...
;-)
 
 
ted.
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--- On Wed, 12/3/08, tEd ® kiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net> wrote:
From: tEd ® kiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net>
Subject: (OT) Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings
To: k_indust@yahoo.com
Cc: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 11:11 AM

Howdy,

One tuning that I use ALL OF THE TIME . . . and seldom see on any charts
(exactly) for one reason or another is:

C,G,D,G,B,D

Or raise it a half step:

C#,G#,D#,G#,C,D#

I's just like open G (or open G# if raised a half step) but with a Sus 4 on
the bottom.

There are a lot of tunings on those charts that will have 5 out of the 6
strings like mine but differ by just one string.

I love the ready dissonance that's always available between the bass string
and the 5th string.

That's what I've used for about a dozen years now (or some transposed
variant thereof).

Just thought I'd pipe in with my 2 cents.

Cheers,

Ted


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---- Kelly Industrys <k_indust@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> Here's an interesting list Alternate Guitar Tunings from a number of
bands and musicians ranging from joni mitchell to metallica.  There are short
clips of the songs so you get to hear what the alternate tuning sounds like:
http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/story2.html
> 
> Here's a larger list of guitar tunings only:
> http://www.howtotuneaguitar.org/tuning/alternate-guitar-tuning-chart/
> 
> I was reading about the new and somewhat expensive gibson dark fire guitar
and found that it does alternate tunings as well as self tune. It also allows
each string to have its own effects etc...  It's worth a look if you
haven't seen it. 
> 
>
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/DarkFire/Technology.aspx
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.kellyindustries.com/
> 
> 
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