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Sonic Youth 37 09.13.2007 12:06 AM

Black Tele: Standard
Blue Tele: "Silver Rocket" tuning
Les Paul Copy: "Kill Yr Idols" tuning
Teisco: no strings

king_buzzo 09.13.2007 01:32 AM

jazzmaster-standard
strat copy #1- #f#f#f#feb
strat copy #2 - GGDDGG

eatmychild 09.13.2007 11:32 AM

I got a child's accoustic the other day for £10 and it's currently in

F#
D#
B
A
F
D

samuel 09.13.2007 02:52 PM

D
G
A
E
F#
A

atsonicpark 09.13.2007 04:05 PM

I started playing in B D E G A B recently; it's a modified Guqin tuning.

What I'd like to invent is a guitar that is constantly and obviously going out of tune as you play it.. like, as you play single notes, the guitar is going out of tune (without you having to detune it yourself)... though I guess this can be accomplished with a second person helping you out... which I've recently been experimenting with (I was playing some complex arpeggios for a new song and my friend was fucking with the volume control and pickup selector and spinning the whammy bar around as I did this and it sounded amazing; hardly a new concept but I'm trying to forge a new aesthetical practice of the "two people playing the same guitar" composition).

atsonicpark 09.13.2007 04:24 PM

Oh shit, I just learned that Agato from Melt Banana plays in FAEACC#


new tuning!

Stondis 09.30.2007 11:54 AM

EBBF#BE which I came up with this morning, it's nice because you can play power chords on the 3 lowest strings, the top 3 are tuned in fourths and you've got the doubled B for cool double string action.
Maybe other people use this one...

Anyone ever buggered up their axe with some abstract tuning???

val-holla-ing 09.30.2007 12:52 PM

DADFAE. it makes a pretty open tuning.

val-holla-ing 09.30.2007 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Oh shit, I just learned that Agato from Melt Banana plays in FAEACC#


new tuning!


that's agatA.

what was he playing in before?

alyasa 09.30.2007 01:02 PM

Standard, and sometimes Open C:
CACGCE, tuned to low C

pbradley 09.30.2007 01:10 PM

Standard tuning because I'm not a pretentious artsy fag.

alyasa 09.30.2007 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pbradley
Standard tuning because I'm not a pretentious artsy fag.

That's nice, do you play major chords?

pbradley 09.30.2007 01:30 PM

Mainly just metal ones.

Yeah, I play major chords depending on the song.

alyasa 09.30.2007 01:37 PM

Metal major chords? That's heavy, no pun intended... Have you ever worked in the D Phrygian Major scale into your guitar playing? I like its middle eastern tonality...

val-holla-ing 09.30.2007 01:47 PM

ah yes. it's that minor 2nd between 1st and 2nd and the 5th and 6th scale degree. it's totally system of a down-esque. \m/

pbradley 09.30.2007 01:47 PM

nope

val-holla-ing 09.30.2007 01:51 PM

nope-ope.

atsonicpark 09.30.2007 01:52 PM

sorry, it's agata, brain fart.

i think he always plays in that.. i don't reccomend tuning your guitar to that, unless you have some loose strings, your strings WILL BREAK in that tuning..

alyasa 09.30.2007 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by val-holla-ing
ah yes. it's that minor 2nd between 1st and 2nd and the 5th and 6th scale degree. it's totally system of a down-esque. \m/

Yeah, totally tool too... :)

val-holla-ing 09.30.2007 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alyasa
Yeah, totally tool too... :)


maynard = too much fucking metal for one hand. \mm/ he's gawd. a sometimes hairless gawd.


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