Favourite alt tuning?

Grunfeld

Is this an alt. tuning?  I dunno...
Norm at Stingbusters sold me the wrong capo.*
He said he was gonna put it right but the lying hound got distracted...
Just as well, because in the meantime I've got to have a lot of fun with this thing.

I don't know what the tunings are called.  But the capo block your 2, 3, 4 strings.  It's up to you where you slide it.


* NPCP "Silver - Slightly Curved - works on inner 3 strings only Fits 6 string guitars"

AliGorie

Grun, if u'r changing the pitch interval relationship between the strings (from 'standard) too an alternative (different) one by means of a turning a machine head or by a 'partial capo'  then the tuning system is alternative

ICBM

musteatbrain said:

DADDAD 
I really like the flabbiness with the G string sooooo low

You're the only other person I've heard of using this. The one I use normally is EBEEBE, but on my 12-string which is tuned down a tone that becomes DADDAD. Sounds amazing.

ToneControl

I use DADGAD, which fortunately can be used  by non-folk-robots ;-) for other purposes, like any tuning. I have an acoustic and a strat set up with this with dedicated gauges

I like  the rain song tuning, I've set up a wide neck acoustic to better allow open strings to ring out when doing shapes near teh 12th fret
DGCGCD

fifths: I have tenor in this, also 
I have a baritone acoustic tuned to 
 G  D  A  E  B F#

Also I've been playing fingerstyle spooky stuff on an acoustic in open G

When I had a vg88 and then a vg99, I used to use this:
AEAAAD
-7 -5 -5 +2 -2 -2
which produced some very nice Metheny textures

Plectrum

I don't use alternate tunings much when playing live. It's just too much faffing about. On the odd occasions I do it's mostly drop D or that well known pop song where you tune the top E string down to Eb. Never really got into DADGAD but use open G and open D when playing slide at home.

ToneControl

for live electric playing in different tunings, are you chaps aware of the VG strat?
or a vg99 for that matter

Lewy

I like Open C Minor for spooky blues. Using it here:

https://www.reverbnation.com/lewiscohen/song/25244711-one-kind-favour

https://www.reverbnation.com/lewiscohen/song/25244700-hellhound-on-my-trail

Nikko

Albatross, by Corrosion of Conformity is a nice sludgy drop D song. At least that's the tuning I play it in

stickyfiddle

Not quite so "alt" but I really liked D standard on my old Taylor. Something about that guitar just opened up and sounded marvellous - either the change in tension or resonant frequencies or both.

Haven't tried it on the Dove. That's tonight sorted

bingefeller

The "Jeff Kollman" tuning - CGDGBE.

bingefeller

I like that half Nashville tuning Pat Metheny uses with his baritone acoustic - A-D-G-C-E-A, but the 3rd and 4th strings are tuned up an octave higher.  

BigLicks67

Open D for when I want to play stuff off Blood on the Tracks or dropped D for Bert Jansch type excursions.

viz

Lewy said:

I like Open C Minor for spooky blues. Using it here:

https://www.reverbnation.com/lewiscohen/song/25244711-one-kind-favour

https://www.reverbnation.com/lewiscohen/song/25244700-hellhound-on-my-trail

@lewy Sounds great. Are you singing too? 

Lewy

viz said:

Lewy said:

I like Open C Minor for spooky blues. Using it here:

https://www.reverbnation.com/lewiscohen/song/25244711-one-kind-favour

https://www.reverbnation.com/lewiscohen/song/25244700-hellhound-on-my-trail

@lewy Sounds great. Are you singing too? 

Ah thanks! Yes, singing too.

viz

Awse. 

HAL9000

Ry Cooder: Hey Eric, what's that strange tuning you're using?

Eric Clapton: EADGBE.