Members DougH Posted February 6, 2006 Members Posted February 6, 2006 I got bored and decided to try alternate tunings. I found a site that has a good downlaodable .pdf book with a bunch of different alternate tunings and chords etc. that is a good start. I thought I would share and also ask about what your favorite alternate tunings? How do you use them? Any tips or easy to play songs that use alternate tunings? http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/alternatetunings/alternatetunings.html -the booklet (requires adobe acrobat reader) is at the bottom of the page and is a good read if you have never tried this before.
Members weewillie Posted February 6, 2006 Members Posted February 6, 2006 Only alternate tuning I've ever tried is open G a la Keef Richards. I'm told many guitarists blag it with standard tuning when playing Honky Tonk Women etc. but I reckon it just don't cut the mustard. It alters the whole tonality of the guitar when you tighten/loosen the strings. As the venerable Stone once said: "All you need is five strings, three fingers and one asshole".Keep the faith
Members soc_monki Posted February 6, 2006 Members Posted February 6, 2006 im not a big alternate tuning kinda person...i use dropped D and its variations (dropped C, etc) but other than that, i like my standard tuning too much i tried open G once, and a few others and i was just like "i havent gotten totally comfortable with standard! i dont need to learn another way to play guitar yet!" LOL DADGAD is pretty cool though...LOL a lot of people are anti-dropped D because most people just use it for the easy one-finger power chords, which are cool...but you can do so much stuff with it...adding melody lines over the root chord...hell, i dont even know what these chords are called but heres an example...|-------------3----|----9-------1-----|----7-------1-----|----7-------1-----stuff like that...simple, but adds a lot of color to just a normal power chord, and is so easy to do (and would require some stretching on a standard-tuned axe!)
Members UFOScorpion Posted February 6, 2006 Members Posted February 6, 2006 I just saw a mag that had a version of Greensleeves (very cool folk song done on guitar and sometimes flutes, etc) in DADGAD tuning. It was on the newstands..... Jeff Beck did a great version on his Truth album in the 60s - have no idea if it was std tuning or not. Page uses some DADGAD-type tunings for Black Mountain Side and similar songs.
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