ejecta
Active member
gtrwun":1z5syztf said:Business":1z5syztf said:gtrwun":1z5syztf said:No George...you got it all wrong man.....Death Metal is the second most complicated music to play!Greazygeo":1z5syztf said:So if I take this correctly, it's all about where your two lowest strings are tuned so that one finger power chords sound cool?
From the bands I've seen and heard, seems a large amount of them don't even know what tuning is.....
I've heard that parrot-talk from metalheads a millions times...
Apparently, Jazz music is super easy to play, once you learn the intricacies of playing Death Metal? Who'd of thunk?
I don't know guys... playing spaghetti noodles over blast beats with cookie monster screaming in your ear has to take some "talent".
Shawn Lutz
New member
I swapped all my guitars to 6 string bass and tune thenm down an octave from norma bass...call it s super bass if you will. I tune basically to negative E, really makes the solos pop and not all country twangy like standard E or Eb on guitars. I gargled some glass chippings and now have the modern metal vocalist (if you call it that ) down to a T..Oscar the grouch has nothing on me
nighttrain69
New member
Drop D (DADGBE
The most frequently used alternate tuning and one of the easiest ones to work with. The only difference from standard tuning is that the low E string is tuned down to D. Examples include the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence,” Led Zeppelin’s “Moby Dick,” Nirvana’s “All Apologies” the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” and Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.”
Open D (DADF#AD As the name suggests, basically an open D major chord. Used on the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels” and much of Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks.
Open G (DGDGBD They should just re-name this the Keith Richards tuning—heard on the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman,” “Brown Sugar,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’,” “All Down the Line,” “Tumbling Dice” and “Start Me Up,” among others. Zeppelin made good use of it, too—“In My Time of Dying,” “That’s the Way,” “Dancing Days,” “Bron-y-aur Stomp” and “Black Country Woman” all being fine examples.
D Modal (DADGAD An especially lush-sounding tuning. It is the secret behind the sweeping epic majesty of Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” as well as “Black Mountain Side.”
Baritone (ADGCEA; perfect fifth below standard) or (BEADF♯B; perfect fourth below standard A staple of 1960s country music. In rock music, the guttural almost-a-bass-guitar sound of baritone has been used by everyone from the Beach Boys (“Dance, Dance, Dance”) to Cream (most of Fresh Cream) to the Cure (“Carnage Visors,” “Pictures of You”).
AND LETS NOT FORGET THE GODFATHER OF HEAVY METAL DROP TUNING TONNI IOMMI
The most frequently used alternate tuning and one of the easiest ones to work with. The only difference from standard tuning is that the low E string is tuned down to D. Examples include the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence,” Led Zeppelin’s “Moby Dick,” Nirvana’s “All Apologies” the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” and Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.”Open D (DADF#AD
As the name suggests, basically an open D major chord. Used on the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels” and much of Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks.Open G (DGDGBD
They should just re-name this the Keith Richards tuning—heard on the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman,” “Brown Sugar,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’,” “All Down the Line,” “Tumbling Dice” and “Start Me Up,” among others. Zeppelin made good use of it, too—“In My Time of Dying,” “That’s the Way,” “Dancing Days,” “Bron-y-aur Stomp” and “Black Country Woman” all being fine examples.D Modal (DADGAD
An especially lush-sounding tuning. It is the secret behind the sweeping epic majesty of Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” as well as “Black Mountain Side.”Baritone (ADGCEA; perfect fifth below standard) or (BEADF♯B; perfect fourth below standard
A staple of 1960s country music. In rock music, the guttural almost-a-bass-guitar sound of baritone has been used by everyone from the Beach Boys (“Dance, Dance, Dance”) to Cream (most of Fresh Cream) to the Cure (“Carnage Visors,” “Pictures of You”).AND LETS NOT FORGET THE GODFATHER OF HEAVY METAL DROP TUNING TONNI IOMMI
Mesa\Kramer
New member
Over 40 and Drop D for the past 20 years
dooredge
Well-known member
My favorite: C-G-C-F-A-D