Omg since it sounds like a 12 string already imagine how massive it would sound on an actual 12 string! Maybe with a lead belly style too with the pick ring and whatever else he did
I remember when nothing else Matters came out. I was going nuts trying to figure out the beginning. I couldn't get it for the life of me. When I finally made it to Sam Ash music , to look at the tabs, I was embarrassed to see it was 6 open strings.
When I was deployed to Bosnia they came and played for us in a very small gymnasium at camp eagle. In front of a crowd of about 200 in December of 1999. It was really cool to hear them and meet them. It kind of felt like a small piece of home. Their plane almost crashed when they left because our airfield was extremely icey. So glad they didn't. But in a time when they were selling out much bigger shows. They took the time to see us and I always appreciated that.
I did security at Chameleon West recording studios here in WNY for Robbie of the GooGoo Dolls for the first three Music Is Art festivals. I'm not exactly a massive fan of the music, but those dudes are straight up awesome people, and they appreciate their fans very, very much. I've done security for quite a few artists who've come to my hometown to play the big hockey arena or football stadium, and even a few of the cool smaller venues here, but very, very, VERY few of them have ever been as cool to and respectful of the people around them who makes stuff work behind the scenes. Top shelf guys all around.
Seasons by Chris Cornell: FFCCCF (It’s open F5 tuning). From standard tuning you tune Low E up to F, A down to F, D down to C, G down to C, B up to C, and E up to F (you could try to tune G up to C, but safety goggles are recommended).
This guy is amazing at teaching guitar, I've been learning for over 20 years and the little tips he offers in between teaching the main lesson shows he knows his business. Such as how to tune with a capo if you don't have a chromatic tuner.
Learning how to play this song when I was kid changed my perspective on music entirely. It opened up my eyes to what can be done on a guitar. I basically never play standard tuning anymore. I love this song.
Yup. I have one of my acoustics tuned there...but I don't take a dozen guitars with me when doing a solo act; so my guitar tuned a step down does quite the similar & nearly unnoticed SAME THING (to many listeners). I had the distinct pleasure of showing Mr. Reznik himself this & he said that's how it started...until his final alt tuning we know today. Nice video, my musical friend🎶🎸
i had a nylon acoustic with a broken peg for the low E, so it couldn't be tuned up without slowly unwinding again, but it kind of kept its tune when looser so i dropped it all the way to A and made it AADGBE which can easily be modified in AADAAD too, but droppuing the E all the way to A kinda only works on nylon with standard gauge and even then it's so loose it handles differently lol
It's a simple fix to not get your B string to break all you have to do is replace it with a high E string problem solved and you can tune a lot of other Goo Goo Dolls songs by replacing the B string with a high e
I learned this song for the hell of it since my wife always listens to 90s alternative. I ended up writing a song of my own, then went higher with the tuning on electric, it ended up being G/A#. I play more noise/post punk/post-hardcore. It’s one of my favorite tunings. I have one guitar for that tuning and now I have 2 songs I wrote with that guitar.
String 1&2 : use two high e from 012&013 set tuned 1 whole step down, string 3&4 : two Ds from the same sets, string 5 : low E tuned 1 step down. And I have no idea how to get the low B.
This song was a pain in the ass. I remember when i was 15 getting into guitar i tried this song, didn't sound that hard but back then the internet resources weren't that developed and found a lot tabs with different information about the tuning, different notes some even used a CAPO... But never found a quite right way to play it back then.
PSA... AS A PROFESSIONAL GUITAR TECH, I would advise only being in this tuning temporarily and with fresh light-gauge (.012" to .053/.054) strings. Keeping your wood acoustic in this tuning for weeks/months at a time, especially as we go from cold/dry weather to warmer/more humid weather could cause wood warping issues that are costly to fix. Remember, with guitars, most issues / damage is caused due to humidity changes. Play on!
You can avoid the issue of the 2nd string breaking by using the high E string from a second set of strings. It'll more easily tune to the D with less tension.
Interesting point of the video with the unusual tuning, but that sound instantly reminds me of wanting to change the radio when this song came on back then.
Did the singer actually “create” this tuning like he says? Or has any other guitarist used this tuning before them? I guess it does seem like the only purpose is to play that one song though lol
Joni Mitchell has over 50 different tunings. Just tune strings to random pitches and move fingers around until you find pleasing chord sounds. Not exactly rocket science.
@ev25zv not rocket science, but when mathematics and physics collide you end you with mucic. Joni was phenomenal. She was playing far above her male older counterparts. The guitarist at the time, gave her the respect she earnt, in a highly male dominant field..
Before accurate tabs or RUclips, I spent an entire evening working this song out in standard so my 2 man acoustic band could play it at our gigs. We only played it once live but I promise that somehow I made it sound exactly like the song lol. It wasn’t until years later I found out it was this crazy tuning. I don’t remember how I played it back then but I do remember there were several guitar gymnastics I had to perform in order to get chords to sound like the real song lol. I remember thinking ‘there is no way the goo goo dolls guy is this much of a freak on guitar!” 😂.
Sometimes I'll tune my classical to CGCGCC, which seems limited in possibilities, but is surprisingly versatile, and goes from dark drone to bright depending on what i do with it.
Nope, Johnny gets the credit for the tuning and Tim didn't contribute acoustic guitars for that track, he played mandolin and lead electric, including solo. He was actually brought just for the mandolin, but he also brought his electric guitar gear, hoping they gonna let his use it, and they did.
I'm always amazed how guys like this explain it. What he says in words i could only feel in my heart but it's good to know there are people out there who take the time to explain it even tho i still don't get it lol
alternate tunings are cool. I learned to play The Rain Song [Zeppelin] in the key of G [I know it's in open C] as per a song book. So, i figured out to make the low E and the A both tuned to G, so a double G. It sounds really cool.
In an interview for a guitar magazine circa 2001 (can’t remember the publication), John said he used different gauge strings so as to achieve the D tuning throughout. Otherwise yikes! Break city 😅😓
That's why its recommended you use a custom set of strings for this tuning. Thicker strings for the low E and high B are almost mandatory to play it. At least unless you wanna break a string or chase around a floppy noodle on your low notes. 🤷♂️
If you don't require the original key, tuning this a half step down can give you a tiny bit less tension and you can always slap a capo on to bring it back up if absolutely necessary.
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Thats why that song almost has a 12 string vibe. Never knew this.
Yeah I always thought it was a 12 string
Rzesznik did the same thing with Name.
Same
Omg since it sounds like a 12 string already imagine how massive it would sound on an actual 12 string! Maybe with a lead belly style too with the pick ring and whatever else he did
They use a mandolina too
Even crazy he has perfect pitch and came up with it in his head
this tuning took my beloved high e string from this world
You mean b string
Why? Did you time your E up an octave to D instead of down a full step?
I've had strings break from detuning, but maybe I'm j doin sumn wrong
@@bwoah3753 if you detune really fast and release the tension quickly there's a chance for the string to break
@@bwoah3753 Strings were probably just a little old or your tuner posts could have abrasions that can snap the strings.
Me nodding in agreement while understanding nothing.
Don't
@@kevintyler7932 do
relatable
No worries, cause it's not likely that anybody that's ever played in that tuning would understand what in the hell he's babbling about either..
@@RNicolasRuvalcaba 😅😆
I've Lost 3 three of my eyes on this tuning.
Two blue and a brown eye?
@@tvrbob8681I got that! 😂
I get losing two eyes, but how did your one-eyed Willie also lose his eye during this? 😱
Check out some CSN tunings ie guineveire , 4+20 etc
Even crazier
Does that mean you're third eye blind now?
*tunes to this, string snaps, neck folds on the body and keeps folding and folding until it folds itself into the quantum realm* i saw it happen once
When you can kinda hear a riff but you can’t figure out how to play it
I remember when nothing else Matters came out. I was going nuts trying to figure out the beginning. I couldn't get it for the life of me. When I finally made it to Sam Ash music , to look at the tabs, I was embarrassed to see it was 6 open strings.
Exactly!!
Well those tab books are notoriously awful so don't feel too bad. I'm sure the only part they had tabbed right was the open strings 🤣😂@@jz3894
Same!!!!!
@@juanpamoreno325 the intro of the song is open. When the singing starts its em. But I'm talking about the intro
I've broken so many strings tuning my guitar to this. It was always unnerving when you had to go back after tuning to tweak them.
When I was deployed to Bosnia they came and played for us in a very small gymnasium at camp eagle. In front of a crowd of about 200 in December of 1999. It was really cool to hear them and meet them. It kind of felt like a small piece of home. Their plane almost crashed when they left because our airfield was extremely icey. So glad they didn't. But in a time when they were selling out much bigger shows. They took the time to see us and I always appreciated that.
Oh wtf it almost crashed? How? Like was it just barely taking off or something?
Thanks man❤ also another lowry 😎 i spell mine like lowery
@bambampewpew32 the run way was icey and they almost slipped off the run way or something to that effect
Don’t care
@@stormcorrosion176 who hurt you dawg
I did security at Chameleon West recording studios here in WNY for Robbie of the GooGoo Dolls for the first three Music Is Art festivals. I'm not exactly a massive fan of the music, but those dudes are straight up awesome people, and they appreciate their fans very, very much. I've done security for quite a few artists who've come to my hometown to play the big hockey arena or football stadium, and even a few of the cool smaller venues here, but very, very, VERY few of them have ever been as cool to and respectful of the people around them who makes stuff work behind the scenes. Top shelf guys all around.
Tbis was my favorite break down of anything ever tbh, it was beautiful tha k you
Imagine it played on a 12 string
Beyond ethereal 😳🌌😌
Dawg I don't got time to retune all that 🤣
Then someone comes along with
an 18 string. Like 6 minute abs...
ruclips.net/video/lbgduHLQW-g/видео.htmlsi=6sME5L2c7WuB-xFc
I don’t know if it sent correctly but it’s a video I found of a guy playing it on 12 string
Seasons by Chris Cornell: FFCCCF (It’s open F5 tuning). From standard tuning you tune Low E up to F, A down to F, D down to C, G down to C, B up to C, and E up to F (you could try to tune G up to C, but safety goggles are recommended).
This guy is amazing at teaching guitar, I've been learning for over 20 years and the little tips he offers in between teaching the main lesson shows he knows his business. Such as how to tune with a capo if you don't have a chromatic tuner.
Rzeznik always has to make sure his guitar tuning on paper looks as weird as his last name.
Fun fact, it means Butcher in Polish.
Or as weird as his face looks now.. 😅
@@harold420that’s badass
That's like most people's names in the 716
Studio musician Tim Pierce actually came up with this guitar piece 👍🏻
Learning how to play this song when I was kid changed my perspective on music entirely. It opened up my eyes to what can be done on a guitar.
I basically never play standard tuning anymore. I love this song.
Yup.
I have one of my acoustics tuned there...but I don't take a dozen guitars with me when doing a solo act; so my guitar tuned a step down does quite the similar & nearly unnoticed SAME THING (to many listeners).
I had the distinct pleasure of showing Mr. Reznik himself this & he said that's how it started...until his final alt tuning we know today.
Nice video, my musical friend🎶🎸
I slightly similar tuning that I love is DADDdd. Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional uses it on his first album The Swiss Army Romance
i had a nylon acoustic with a broken peg for the low E, so it couldn't be tuned up without slowly unwinding again, but it kind of kept its tune when looser
so i dropped it all the way to A and made it AADGBE
which can easily be modified in AADAAD too, but droppuing the E all the way to A kinda only works on nylon with standard gauge and even then it's so loose it handles differently lol
Ah yes the aptly named "daddy" tuning
Now way! That's why I could never figure or how the fuck it is played, omg
It's a simple fix to not get your B string to break all you have to do is replace it with a high E string problem solved and you can tune a lot of other Goo Goo Dolls songs by replacing the B string with a high e
Gotta give cred to Tim Pierce who was the session guitarist on the studio recording
Was just going to say that. He played the demo of the song on his channel. It was him that sugested this tuning. 🙂
Dude is a genius. Song would be nothing without his input
Tim also wrote and played the solo.
So glad I learned about Tim Pierce from Rick Beato. His discography is nothing short of amazing. ❤
And the mandolin
“Weirdest guitar tuning ever”
Bro has never heard of Sonic Youth
Who cares?
who?
REAL
Or Lou Reed's ostrich guitar...
@@ant0ni0sant0sapparently you
Wow! Thank you for explaining this, Dre! That explains why the sound is so unique.
I learned this song for the hell of it since my wife always listens to 90s alternative. I ended up writing a song of my own, then went higher with the tuning on electric, it ended up being G/A#. I play more noise/post punk/post-hardcore. It’s one of my favorite tunings. I have one guitar for that tuning and now I have 2 songs I wrote with that guitar.
Can you play stairway to heaven?
Link please. We want to hear it
Not fair to keep songs written, not recorded and to yourself. Do the right thing, record and share those beauties.😊
This is actually genius
I would really like to hear a 12 string tuned like that.
Search for it on here. It exists.
String 1&2 : use two high e from 012&013 set tuned 1 whole step down, string 3&4 : two Ds from the same sets, string 5 : low E tuned 1 step down. And I have no idea how to get the low B.
It did break my string 2 times 🥲
If tuned to this exactly two times. It sounded absolutely amazing. But I broke strings both times. Never again. And it's been over a decade.
@@ChrisMiles94just tune it to the tuning but do it a half or full step down and capo the first or second fret
use 1st (e) string on the 2nd pos (b)
@@ChrisMiles94 Did you lose your iris?
He uses two E strings and drops them to D rather than B to D
I appreciate the "Django" shirt 👍
looking for someone who noticed that. Django was the goat
This song was a pain in the ass. I remember when i was 15 getting into guitar i tried this song, didn't sound that hard but back then the internet resources weren't that developed and found a lot tabs with different information about the tuning, different notes some even used a CAPO... But never found a quite right way to play it back then.
I didn’t understand all the words you said but this is super awesome and informative!
Briefest and most thorough invitation to explore a tuning that I’ve ever watched. Thank you for your compact awesomeness!
I always feel like I'm cheating when I go to far from basic standard/drop tunings but this is genuinely pretty cool. Also confusing af but cool 😂
More hypnotic & less chance of string breakage...tune the Dstring to 144.2hz ~ A432hz
Then tune the guitar from D string
still waiting to see this in standard
I’ve found out a standard sound I did for iris
Bm G A D... try it thank me later
That B string rings out, so much more than the others. It sounds like it’s screaming, in pain.
I tune my 1959 Kay florentine cutaway..super loud geetar..DAddAD...yummm
I wish more musicians used custom tunings. Iris has such a beautiful drone to it.
*I broke my Banjo string once. There was a lot of blood everywhere but once it healed it was peachy cream.💯*
Thanks for this.I love that song, everytime I pick up my guitar to try to play it,it slips from my mind and I totally forget all about it.
Happy birthday to Django!
I have no idea what this guy is talking about however I am fascinated
PSA... AS A PROFESSIONAL GUITAR TECH, I would advise only being in this tuning temporarily and with fresh light-gauge (.012" to .053/.054) strings. Keeping your wood acoustic in this tuning for weeks/months at a time, especially as we go from cold/dry weather to warmer/more humid weather could cause wood warping issues that are costly to fix. Remember, with guitars, most issues / damage is caused due to humidity changes. Play on!
Literally every time I try to tune a guitar to play this song, my string snaps.
Your videos are so underrated
Thanks to you i now realized that tuning can give a unique color and identity to the musician
Thank Tim Pierce for that tuning and song. Greatest session player ever.
Pretty sure he only handled the mandolin playing and the solo
I found this so insightful! I enjoy it even more knowing how cleverly composed it was
You shouldn’t use a standard string set for a tuning like this but rather a specialized set
What set usually?
what string set do you know of that would be specialized for a wacky tuning like this
@@lowkeybttd It would have to be a custom set made from different set gauges
@@josku5 and on what gauge the B string should be?
You can avoid the issue of the 2nd string breaking by using the high E string from a second set of strings. It'll more easily tune to the D with less tension.
Interesting point of the video with the unusual tuning, but that sound instantly reminds me of wanting to change the radio when this song came on back then.
My guitar looking like me "yea you not gonna try that on me do you?"
Did the singer actually “create” this tuning like he says? Or has any other guitarist used this tuning before them?
I guess it does seem like the only purpose is to play that one song though lol
I'm pretty sure it was actually their session guitarist's idea.
@@xenophagia yup it was Tim Pierce.
Joni Mitchell has over 50 different tunings. Just tune strings to random pitches and move fingers around until you find pleasing chord sounds. Not exactly rocket science.
@ev25zv not rocket science, but when mathematics and physics collide you end you with mucic.
Joni was phenomenal. She was playing far above her male older counterparts.
The guitarist at the time, gave her the respect she earnt, in a highly male dominant field..
Cool video man the sound of that guitar was unique now i know why
Before accurate tabs or RUclips, I spent an entire evening working this song out in standard so my 2 man acoustic band could play it at our gigs. We only played it once live but I promise that somehow I made it sound exactly like the song lol. It wasn’t until years later I found out it was this crazy tuning. I don’t remember how I played it back then but I do remember there were several guitar gymnastics I had to perform in order to get chords to sound like the real song lol. I remember thinking ‘there is no way the goo goo dolls guy is this much of a freak on guitar!” 😂.
Fascinating. I’ve always loved open chord tuning
I love the use of alternate tunings. I think it’s really creative in a world where you can play every mainstream song with 4 chords
Sometimes I'll tune my classical to CGCGCC, which seems limited in possibilities, but is surprisingly versatile, and goes from dark drone to bright depending on what i do with it.
So it's a C5 power chord tuning? Nice
"a nearly perfect symmetrical tuning to fashion a hypnotic drone" what?!! 😂😂
Oh my gosh too much trouble just to play a song. 😢 (Great breakdown though)
The best song ever written honestly. Home by Daughtry being 2nd. And then I'm Still Here by John being the 3rd. o 3o
Use a lighter b string.
Much respect to your Django shirt! Do you play any manouche jazz?
Kevin shields would not be impressed
Kevin Shields would hit someone on the head with that big ass pedal board of his
this song was so fuckin perfect
You know why the tuning is like that?
Because...
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I'd give up forever to touch you.
I felt that flinch buddy... that is...something you feel vicariously when you see it happen and "DAMNIT!" When it happens to you lol
Tim Pierce, the session guitarrist who recorded probably all guitars in the actual record is probably the one to credit for this!
Nope, Johnny gets the credit for the tuning and Tim didn't contribute acoustic guitars for that track, he played mandolin and lead electric, including solo. He was actually brought just for the mandolin, but he also brought his electric guitar gear, hoping they gonna let his use it, and they did.
Who wrote the song again? Ahh yes. The man who actually is the frontman. Tired of people trying to discredit him over the years
Actually there is an interview on it and the songwriter is credited for this tuning idea
John created all the tunings for their songs. Iris isn’t the only Goo Goo Dolls song with strange tuning.
lol you said "probably" twice and then everyone correctly told you you were wrong
Thurston Moore: Hold my guitar and my beer! 😂
I’ve snapped 3 strings trying to tune for this song so I just gave up
This was the first song I tried learning when I got my first guitar. I didn’t know anything about tuning and ended up snapping half my strings too.
You could drop the tuning a half or whole step and then capo to bring up to the proper key.
Thanks guys I’ll give the tips a try!
@@HazyShaydthat's what I'm going to do when I try and learn this song.
To all those afraid of snapping strings, you can also tune down to A instead of B and C instead of D and throw a capo on the second fret.
Nice django shirt
That final warning is no joke I almost went blind with that string break trying this exact tuning
The intro is played (and written) by the legendary session guitarist Tim Pierce, iirc. Source is his videos with Rick Beato.
The lead only. The main riff is still written by Reznick. The man is a song writing genius.
Don't put your guitar through all that just to play that song.
Idk why (other than having to retune it every time) but I absolutely hate alternate tunings
I'm always amazed how guys like this explain it. What he says in words i could only feel in my heart but it's good to know there are people out there who take the time to explain it even tho i still don't get it lol
Iris tuning = you can't play the guitar.
Oh!?
Have you tried tuning your guitar to their song Name yet?
Tell me.
I did not understand a single sentence but thank you for this info anyway
I've always hated that song, now I know why
Bcz of this weirdly beautiful tuning, ive often been using this tuning to play my other songs which i wana play in D or Bm❤😇
Tim Pierce did most of the guitar and mandolin on that track. He’s a legendary Los Angeles session player who many years in Rick Springfield’s band.
alternate tunings are cool. I learned to play The Rain Song [Zeppelin] in the key of G [I know it's in open C] as per a song book. So, i figured out to make the low E and the A both tuned to G, so a double G. It sounds really cool.
I did this tuning. All my strings survived, but my guitar was never the same after
In an interview for a guitar magazine circa 2001 (can’t remember the publication), John said he used different gauge strings so as to achieve the D tuning throughout. Otherwise yikes! Break city 😅😓
The pic of Django on that shirt is such a mood
He comes up with the most off the wall tunings.
I always thought they used a mandolin along with guitars in this song.
That's mind blowing!! I had no idea and it's really brilliant.
Thanks so much for this 🤘😎
"When you are with meeeeuuhhh, ahm freeeeeuhhhh" 😂
That's why its recommended you use a custom set of strings for this tuning. Thicker strings for the low E and high B are almost mandatory to play it. At least unless you wanna break a string or chase around a floppy noodle on your low notes. 🤷♂️
While I haven't enjoyed all their output: great band, great songwriter, great voice and most importantly inspirational guitar underdog.
Goddammit. Now I have to listen to this song again and relive those teenage growing pains. Thanks, I hate it.
I LOVE this---no clues as to the technicalities....but I love it!!❤❤❤❤
If you don't require the original key, tuning this a half step down can give you a tiny bit less tension and you can always slap a capo on to bring it back up if absolutely necessary.
Feels like i've stumbled into a beatniks meeting in 1959
I’ve never heard it described as an “ideolect tuning” but my god is that a perfect way to describe unique tunings
Suite Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, stills and Nash is all six strings tuned to E
Almost sounded like some creed when he strummed through all the cords for a second
I remember when this came out I learned the tuning. This is still one of my favorite tunings.
Your guitar teacher helped you out so much. That's nice to see.