WITCHFINDER GENERAL Guitar Lesson

From the album Death Penalty by Witchfinder General, released in 1982. A NWOBHM classic
In C Standard Tuning:
C tuning is a type of guitar tuning. The strings of the guitar are tuned two whole steps lower than standard tuning. The resulting notes can be described most commonly as C-F-A♯-D♯-G-C or C-F-B♭-E♭-G-C.
Full lesson coming soon.

[@boneyardmilitia1836]

Bought the death penalty album in 82..Best investment I made as a young kid..Loved Zeebs voice

[@mickcrocodiledundee6353]

Awesome stuff Dunsy! More Witchfinder General please!

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Great band! Will do a full lesson for this in the drop tuning and normal tuning.

[@heatherbell...akahurricane8910]

I can't believe you're playing WITCHFINDER ❤❤❤....OMGOSH!!! LOVE this band....for decades...❤❤❤from gma in Ontario Canada

[@ronnierazor4302]

Damn, so cool you covering that band! And their album covers are great too!

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Definitely controversial at the time, for sure! Great band and probably the lowest of tunings I had ever heard back then.

[@heatherbell...akahurricane8910]

OMGOSH I'm so fkn happy I found this group

[@gunsrulecommiesdrool]

I love the General ! Good job Bruh ,!

[@ianaster1104]

OMG I LOVE THIS BAND🤘🏻

[@aaronlalli3730]

Hell yeah!

[@buck7477]

Your doin Gods work Mr. Dunsy Sir!

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Bringing obscure Metal to the Masses!

[@bipbopboom]

One of my faves!! Awesome job!!

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

I was thinking about you showing the album cover the other week there! 🤘😄. Still love to do a video with ya at some point to discuss this era from a viewpoint from both sides of the pond.

[@thywarhag1131]

Yeah 🤘 thank you cheers mate 🍺🍺

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Always happy to share The Metal 🤘🍺

[@captbss]

That explains why the strings have so much play

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

9’s on a Gibson scale at C standard = almost impossible to keep in tune too! 😆

[@ronaldziegler1537]

Ozzy number 2

[@douglaschristine8387]

Hi Dunsy, you sure have alot of albums and alot of music I don't know at all. Long story short a girl I lived with left all my albums out in the rain and by the time I got home from work they were ruined.

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Oh man, that's nasty, all those albums gone?!

[@Cooper-cs6dp]

There’s just something about low tuned guitars in the 70s and early 80s that didn’t have such an extreme amount of gain, venom, sabbath, witchfinder general, candlemass, Motorhead etc

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Yeah, that's actually a great point - on this I think I just used a Marshall, nothing too high gain at all. Totally different sound than you hear these days from folks who are way down in C standard.

[@Cooper-cs6dp]

@@DunsysGuitarWorld I do like the later sound of lower tuned guitars, like the 90s death metal sound. I like both the 70s/80s tones and the 90s tones equally

[@bathory5026]

Man, I always figured they were in C#. It's crazy they were just a half step above Carcass.

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

Yeah, this is low! I was using 9-42 strings as well, could hardly keep a barre chord in tune!

[@bathory5026]

@@DunsysGuitarWorld I use 10-46 and it's bad enough in C# lol

[@stevencrash]

Love that record, still have the OG vinyl!
Weird tuning...can you play it in open tuning as well for us?

[@DunsysGuitarWorld]

No problem - will do a lesson that features both the album tuning and how to play it in standard tuning too.