Guitar Tunings

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edited April 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
I'm no professional with guitars and I haven't been experimenting with guitar tunings until recently I wanted to learn one tune by the band Low, and had to tune the guitar differently. I was pleasantly surprised by how interesting the guitar sounded and was wondering if you would tell some other interesting guitar tunings other than standart.

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  • rickp
    rickp Posts: 219
    This might prove useful to you:

    http://www.giventowail.com/new/tabs/tunings.php
  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    DADGAD is may favorite alternate tuning. Such a cool sound. Listen to White Summer/Black Mountainside to hear it put to good use.
  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    I've always wanted to try some Queens of the Stone Age tunings, where they drop like everything a full two steps. I wonder how loose the strings really get at that point.
  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    moster78 wrote:
    I've always wanted to try some Queens of the Stone Age tunings, where they drop like everything a full two steps. I wonder how loose the strings really get at that point.

    Not too bad if you're using 12's.
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  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    enharmonic wrote:
    Not too bad if you're using 12's.

    I'm using 10's. Next time I'm bored I'll give it a shot.
  • All Those Yesterdays
    All Those Yesterdays Posts: 2,723
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    DADGAD is may favorite alternate tuning. Such a cool sound. Listen to White Summer/Black Mountainside to hear it put to good use.


    Sounds just awesome on an acoustic.

    I also like tuneing normal but tuneing the High E string down one octave to match the octave of the low E.
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  • JofZ
    JofZ Posts: 1,276
    there is a book called alternate guitar tunings, look it up on Amazon, it is fantastic!
    Tunings open doors, and allow you to play songs the way they were intended to. PJ is one band that loves alternate tunings, and it is nice to have a couple guitars so you don't have to keep going back and forth.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    See the thread "Alternate tunings" that I just bumped.
  • leethal
    leethal Posts: 134
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    DADGAD is may favorite alternate tuning. Such a cool sound. Listen to White Summer/Black Mountainside to hear it put to good use.

    Yeah man i love this one, I can't play either of these like Page but the still sound aswesome. Have you tried the rain song tuning DGCGCD also awesome. Apart from those two I love Open G on electric w/ a slide and Open D on acoustic

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