0:51 Black key tuning: F# A# C# F# A# F 1:53 Banjo Tuning GDGBD 3:39 Open D DADF#AD 5:40 New standard tuning CDGAED 7:32 Nick Drake Tuning CGCFCE 9:08 Baritone Standard Tuning BEADF#B 9:47 DADGAD!
Two of my favorites: Open C: C G C G C E Drop C: C G D G B E, which keeps the upper four strings on familiar ground, and given a bit more oomph to the bass register
CGCFCD# is better imo just because all you have to do is fret one note differently for a major chord and you've got the extra 4th to give the chord a unique flavor
Most alternate tunings used by Soundgarden are fun to play around in. Also +1 for baritone guitars, I got an ML1 modern and it changed my world. Such an underappreciated instrument.
Could just use baritone tuning, rather than purchasing a baritone guitar as well, since the *only* difference between a baritone and standard guitar is scale length. A 25.5 in. scale length guitar will handle B standard (BEAD F# B) fairly well, if you beef up the strings a bit. Using .13 gauge strings in B standard, quite literally, will have roughly the same poundage and tension as using .10s in E standard. (I wouldn't go lower than A though on a standard guitar, though. Intonation WILL get really shitty really fast if you don't have the extended scale length.)
I think the main reason baritones fly under the radar is because people just prefer to get an extended range instrument at that point, and I don't really blame them lol
"Ostrich" tuning is most fun. D-D-D-D-D-D. Some Ds are a bit tight and tense. Some Ds are floppy and loose. With an acoustic you wan't to bend the Hell out of the loose Ds for a cool Indian Sitar sound. On electric you need huge amounts of reverb and a tremolo cranked at maximum volume.
how do we actually alternate tuning? does the clip on tuner detects specific tuning like F#? or is it just fixed to detect the standard tuning? i’ve never bought a tuner i just use the phone app. i’m considering buying a tuner if it does the work hahah
I just love drop D for how soft it can make songs. Everlong is a perfect example- there's some beautiful soft, slow and low areas where the D string adds a sort of rumble under the chords. The chorus uses it to get some more bass for the powerchords. Best alternate tuning, by far.
Drop d is mostly all I play of course I’m a metal head but even when I’m just messing around when I pick up the guitar and just start noodling and jamming around drop d is the best and my All time favorite. It’s like best of both worlds can write some heavy ass riffs but also play casually without changing tuning or anything.
I get Keith Richards didn’t use the low E string but it’s easier to just drop it to a D and use it as a drone note it’s also killer for playing with a slide
I dont even bother tuning it. I just leave it as a low E and try not to hit it when I'm playing. I usually use it for slide and playing Keith stuff (as do most people)
Sounded cool by Ichika Nito too! Man, I'm stuck with one cheap acoustic guitar:( ... Not that if I had better one I could close to anyone of you guys even in distant future tbh
@@caesaro.2286 They got that from Lou Reed, who called it ostrich guitar. He used it on the Velvet Underground songs "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Heroin", and "Venus In Furs".
@@hickorymccay2994 the singer John Rzeznik is known to just go wild with tunings when writing songs so it's probably just coincidence that it's "ostrich tuning"
Also good tuning(s) that i use are Fmaj9 FACGCE Dmaj9 DAC#EAE Gmin7? or Bb6/D - either way i'm using the first 3 strings as a drone chord DGDFBbD Try em out, they fun
I spent a whole year in new standard once. Wrote some of the best music i've ever made, and I came back to standard a way better player in general. Really underrated tuning imo
Robert Fripp's playing might not be understood by some. However,he's unique and original ,obscure,abstract etc. King Crimson would change total band line up players from album to album, but just Robert alone still keeps the King Crimson's sonic melodic vibe alive. You know it's King Crimson regardless of the era and line up. He deserves recognition for originality.
I tuned my guitar to open D cuz I was watching a playthrough of "Shibuya" by Yvette Young (well, she plays the song with a capo, but whatever), but because my strings are like six months old, they don´t stay in tune well. One day, coming back from college, I picked up my guitar and the strings tune themselves higher by a semitone, but I didn´t like it, so I tuned it another semitone higher and now I play in open E, wich I like sooooo much more than open D. (I could´ve just said this at the beggining, but I don´t have anything else to do).
if you know Nick drake surely you know Elliott Smith? he also did weird tunings, and also died young, and was a amazing acoustic song writer. Independence day would be a great song if not introduced yet, very cool use of some sort of open c tuning.
I have my own tuning. I call it the Dulcitone Tuning, because it's based off the the Dulcimer tuning, and it sounds very medieval. It's DADDAD. Really simple. Sounds nice on acoustic.
Lukas Kuipers have fun with that whammy bro!!! Or have different guitars for different tunings like I do so you don’t have to worry about all that tuning shit
Realiscally you could just Block it, play around with different tunings and then when you find the one you really like, just unblock it and readjust the claw in the back till the guitar is back in tune to what you want it to be. all it is, is a tention balenceing act between the strings and the springs in the back, if the guitar was in tune with the block, then all you would need to to do it again adjust that claw. easy stuff, might sound scary but just try it, the worst that could happen is you break a string
Great video! Check out these 5 string Open G variations, and you'll be glad you did: 1. Starting with your standard Open G tuning, drop the B string half a step for Open G minor (G D G A# D) 2. Starting with your standard Open G tuning, drop the low G string to an E for super jazzy/(added 6th) barre chords (E D G B D)
@Music is Win I recommend checking out Superuknown by Soundgarden. It has a ton of fun alternate tunings to play, but my favourite out of all of it is Like Suicide. The tuning is just so unique to me; DGDGBC, it just sounds majestic. Also The Day I Tried to Live’s tuning is EEBBBB. I also recommend checking out Badmotorfinger, with Mind Riot; every string tuned to E and Rusty Cage & Searching with My Good Eye Closed; both songs are tuned BADGBE. Soundgarden is a great band, especially for alternate tunings, and is actually my favourite band of all time, they are just so unique. Highly recommend checking them out.
This was my original comment with Down on the Upside or Super Unknown...learn the whole album...lots of tunings and crazy time signatures that sound 4/4 but aren't. Just 2 amazing freaking albums. Rock on!!!👍🤘✌
MVSA, This is part of the Wikipedia article on Superunknown. I only listed the tunings, not the time signatures which are also covered following this excerpt. Everyone enjoy and try some of these yourselves. They work! Check out the article when so inclined. Soundgarden utilized alternative tunings and odd time signatures on several of the album's songs. "Spoonman", "Black Hole Sun", "Let Me Drown" and "Kickstand" were performed in drop D tuning while "Mailman" and "Limo Wreck" employed CGDGBE tuning. Some songs used more unorthodox tunings: "My Wave" and "The Day I Tried to Live" are both in an EEBBBB tuning. "Head Down" and "Half" both utilised CGCGGE tuning, "4th of July" is in a similar CFCGBE tuning; and "Like Suicide" is performed in DGDGBC tuning. ------------------------------------------------------------ Btw, I would like to note that Kim Thayall says that TRUE Drop D tuning is NOT just dropping the low E to D. He says it involves actually dropping both the low E AND the A down.anfull pitch. So low E becomes D and A drops down to G. Straight from the horses mouth And he should know. He claims they STARTED the trend. Rock on!
I recommend DAEAAe just listen to some sky sailing to get b bit of a feeling but you have to play with it to really get the feel it's very unique and I certainly would recommend it (tune down a step and use a capo to avoid breaking any strings😉)
I usually don't even bother to do that when playing Stones stuff, i just tune the A string down to G and usually even leave the high E to E to just get those tasty Keith Richards chords (think of Brown Sugar for example)
I know this video was posted a while ago, but if you see this, i just wanted to say... The Danelectro 66 is such an impractical guitar, the right handed side shoulder is higher than the left hand side, and that's if you get the right handed cut!
Here are my favorite tunings I've sort of stumbled upon through my playing with weird tunings. 6 String: D-A-B-D-A-B (good for Thursday style emo) 7 String: F-C-G-C-F-G-D (F and G allow for easy minor 2nd intervals) 8 String: C-G-D-G-C-F-G-D (The high C constantly changes to add more interesting or harsh intervals/adding mirco-tones in relation to the F string)
Robert Fripp also uses Full Fifths Tuning (C2, G2, D3, A3, E4, B4) by using a set of Octave4Plus 5ths Tuning Strings which have a .006 Gauge Plain Steel String designed to tune to High B (The Thinnest Wound String is now a 13 made by Octave4Plus because over the years string technology has improved &experimental alloys were used).
Just tried the Nick Drake tuning. And damn thanks for that man. Everything sounds so emotional and dreamy in that tuning. Just what I needed to boost my creativity.
I appreciate how chill this video is. To be honest, I unsubscribed a while ago due to how over the top some of the prior videos were. This is a breath of fresh air from this channel.
@@raydog_97 Drop A is great too, but I like Drop A# because it sounds great for a lot of genres of music. From metalcore to alternative rock/metal and post-grunge, Drop A# sounds great.
After a couple years of playing, I finally decided to play in drop d. The result surprised me a lot. It is like a brand new world is front of me. I will try and the other tunings too and I'm sure that it will be awesome. Thanks for your videos mate, they are pretty good.
So yeah, I paused. I watched King Crimson. I now realize that I have been living life so horribly wrong, how could I not have known of this godly madness.
Just retuned my old selmer nylon string to Nick Drake tuning... Love that lovely bass note on the bottom string. Great for a kind of call and response tune and as soon as you hit the strings it just screams Nick Drake all over !! Thankyou, I'm gonna spend some time with this tuning :O)
Don't know if it was mentioned in comments, but Ben Howard uses an awesome alternate tuning. He uses various different ones but the main one he used on the entire "Every Kingdom" album is awesome to play in. Mainly for acoustic stuff.
Sometimes I just like dropping my B string down to an A for E, A, D, G, A, E I found it was a subtle way to get my feet wet in alternate tunings without getting too far away from the familiar, but having enough of a change to get more out of my playing. Then there is that crazy tuning Alex DeGrassi uses for his song Western. D, A, D, G, C#, Eb which is a bit strange, but when you hear what Alex does with this tuning it is tempting to want to experiment with it. I had a guitar teacher years ago who actually made me learn Western, and it was by far one of the most interesting learning experiences on guitar in my nearly 32-years of playing.
To be totally honest, I feel like guitarists are bipolar or something about Baritone guitars. At first, we all go "Ohh, it sounds so big and beautiful." But then everyone makes jokes about downtuning and stuff. Take Drop A for example. It's the tuning that a lot of Deathcore, chug chug bands use. Everyone goes "So brain dead, tune up!" Hint Hint: Drop A is to Baritone tuning, as Drop D is to E standard. Can we get some consistency in here?
I use a version of open C. CGCGCC Having the upper two strings tuned the same gives you a kind of chorus effect and makes for some interesting chords when you're playing one of them open and one of them fretted.
Here’s one thats being used more by metal bands Its called drop “riff” tuning (really idk what its called but I’ve only seen it referred to as that So that a standard drop tuning, lets say drop A#(A# F A# D# G C) and drop the low string to say G or F# Now you have essentially more access to lower and higher notes at once. Its a simple change but it might make your djenty riffs a bit spicier
my new favorite tuning is CGDGAD. Just what ever i play sounds good and unique. It's easy to add 9s, 11s and 13s with the open strings which can to some extent be very difficult or impossible in standard tunings. It just gives such an amazing sound
Karnivool, Ben Howard, American Football and Periphery (like open Cadd9) alternate tunings are absolutely the greatest, Karnivool’s are wacky as hell, especially on ‘Themata’ and pretty much all of their songs are in different tunings
I am a bassist by trade. However, this is amazing to me! I am feeling inspired to pull out my Ibanez ‘law suit’ Les Paul copy guitar and start experimenting! Thank you.
Darth Ciliatus he used a variety of guitars: SG, Les Pauls, a Firebird, and an ES335. He used the ES in the final concert which was one of the few and the most famous Cream concert caught on tape.
For that open G, keep the low string on and tune it to D. This is the tuning Robert Johnson used and it allows for the alternate bass note when doing fingerstyle guitar or slide.
I currently have my epiphone Les Paul in open d ( aka: Vestapol ) and I absolutely love it. With this tuning one can play T-Rex's '20th century boy' and George Thorogood and the destroyers 'Who Do You Love?' with ease.
Brian Robison, dont you know that the famous "Nashville tuning" is called by everyone "the poor man's 12 string" and thats EADGBE, only the 4 lowest strings an octave higher.ruclips.net/video/2JLdPU_RKxc/видео.html
@@pauldepter6031 That's not really a 12-string, though, is it? a 12-string is 6 strings but they all have a string next to them tuned the same. Brian Robison's looks way more like a "poor man's 12-string" than EADGBE
I accidentally came across one of my favorite alternate tunings, when a friend came round to jam and told me he was tuned to C I continued to play in Standard along with him at the time, then once he had left I looked up the tuning for; "Open C" [ C G C G C E] Very easy to play with and the sound instantly has a Western Cowboy feel. It wasn't until I saw my friend again a few months later once I mentioned it, that he told me he was in; "Standard C" [ C F A♯ D♯ G C ] not open C (hence the accident), which is 2 whole steps lower than standard tuning, so I guess playing style will be similar to Standard Tuning and the Baritone Tuning mentioned in the video, but unlike the Baritone which requires a Baritone guitar, this can be tuned in, on a standard guitar with heavier guage strings. So, although I got it wrong, Im happy I did, because I actually came out of that jamming session with a recording I quickly turned into a song and a new tuning I was instantly able to write new and interesting melodies with. From my experience, I have found that Open C is also a fantastic tuning for; Finger tapping melodies, Single note playing with the other 5 strings ringing out the open chord, Finger picking melodies And actually being so easy to use, its genuinely quite difficult to play something wrong. Another interesting Tuning I saw somebody using was the; "All Fourths Tuning" [ E A D G C F ] If you are used to standard tuning, playing your usual open chords in this tuning sounds hideous. You can play your standard chords using the 6th - 3rd strings, as these are unchanged from standard tuning and muscle memory hinders you to try and alter your finger shapes to play the correct notes for open chords. That being said though, this tuning is designed to make the guitar more symetrical (you are now able to tune every string using the 5th fret ) which makes playing scales, super fast soloing and just generally finding your way around the fretboard, a walk in the park compared to Standard Tuning. I havn't done much with this one to be honest, soloing isn't my thing really, but it is interesting and certainly has its uses.
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Use F F F F F F tuning for more respect.
4 years and this meme still lives on
Good one
That sounds like a South Youth tuning.
Funky Bullshrimp its a lou reed tuning
all-one-note is called ostritch tuning and it sounds fantastic with a slide
My report card tuning FFDFDD
Mine too lol.
School's a joke, go learn a trade instead 😎
Good tuning. Not too sharp.
It rlly be like that huh
Tears of Soy depends on how much success you want to achieve
BAGDAD - Iraq tuning
It's fun to play in
it blows up your guitar tone
i tried this and now my dad has crawled into a bag and won’t come out, please help!
it gives an explosive sound
Lmao
0:51 Black key tuning: F# A# C# F# A# F
1:53 Banjo Tuning GDGBD
3:39 Open D DADF#AD
5:40 New standard tuning CDGAED
7:32 Nick Drake Tuning CGCFCE
9:08 Baritone Standard Tuning BEADF#B
9:47 DADGAD!
The NST first string it's wrong, it's not a D but it's a G, and the fourth and third are inverted
Thanks Jimmy.
@Slater Slater What?
@Slater Slater ohhh i just got It lmao
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DEADGF,great one to write songs about breaking up.Also try DEADBF.
DEADGF sounds like a tuning that Tim Lambesis from AILD would enjoy
DEADGF is also good clickbait according to Jaystation.
Unfortunately DEADGF is a bit looser than DEADBF. But that's corpses for you.
So good!! 😂😂
Screw it im trying it, for real
Cant wait to try these 7 different tunings with my floyd rose
Well, have fun then... Seriously though, I don't think it's gonna work that well
I feel the pain brother
O no
Know what's you mean.... my Jackson pro couldn't even handle drop C
YOU POOR SOUL I FEEL YOUR PAIN
These riffs you're playing are fresh AF
Also isn't it C"GD"AEG not C"DG"AEG?
This dude goes mad underappreciated for his killer fucking "example" riffs
Was just thinking these could be made into really good songs
For maximum djent, use drop § tuning
What about Drop Æ
Alex-RaCoon12 that’s for tool stuff
@@yes-ls3im ok, so what about Standard Œ
Alex-RaCoon12
for whales only to hear (gojira)
Drop ł
For anyone who doesn't want to remove the low E, tune it to D.
or up to G
@@wolfchildrising9951 yeah, if you have a set of 008s, or have a .38
the correct answer is tune it down to a C for that delicious CGDGBD
I always recommend dropping the d on the p and then listen to that baby scream.....you know what I be saying....eeeeee
Just cut it then you dont have the effort of actually removing it ez
Two of my favorites:
Open C: C G C G C E
Drop C: C G D G B E, which keeps the upper four strings on familiar ground, and given a bit more oomph to the bass register
My favorite unconventional tuning is DADF#BD, you can make a lot of interesting major chords with it
soundgarden tunings (pretty noose, burden in my hand / mailman, 4th of july)
forgot to cite
CGCFCD# is better imo just because all you have to do is fret one note differently for a major chord and you've got the extra 4th to give the chord a unique flavor
CGCGAD is a good one used by Jose Gonzalez
I thought drop c was C G C F A D
BAGDAD
Bombing my way through metal
1 - Why doesn't this comment have more likes?
2 - I want to try this simply because you're comment is hilarious.
wow that's very racist
I think using BAGDAD on a classical guitar using camel pubes for strings works.
Abraham Jaleel No, it’s a joke. :p
Abraham Jaleel lmao, I found the person who doesn’t understand jokes
Most alternate tunings used by Soundgarden are fun to play around in. Also +1 for baritone guitars, I got an ML1 modern and it changed my world. Such an underappreciated instrument.
Could just use baritone tuning, rather than purchasing a baritone guitar as well, since the *only* difference between a baritone and standard guitar is scale length. A 25.5 in. scale length guitar will handle B standard (BEAD F# B) fairly well, if you beef up the strings a bit. Using .13 gauge strings in B standard, quite literally, will have roughly the same poundage and tension as using .10s in E standard. (I wouldn't go lower than A though on a standard guitar, though. Intonation WILL get really shitty really fast if you don't have the extended scale length.)
ooh, hey shall, nice to see you here, and also you´re totally right, alot of the soundgarden tunening are really fun!
Hands down my favorite Soundgarden tuning is the Mailman tuning, CGDGBE - Drop C on 6th and 5th strings, standard for the rest.
I think the main reason baritones fly under the radar is because people just prefer to get an extended range instrument at that point, and I don't really blame them lol
@@alexanderdenison2950 I chose a baritone because I didn't want to have to deal with extra strings, especially since my hands are rather small.
"Ostrich" tuning is most fun. D-D-D-D-D-D. Some Ds are a bit tight and tense. Some Ds are floppy and loose. With an acoustic you wan't to bend the Hell out of the loose Ds for a cool Indian Sitar sound. On electric you need huge amounts of reverb and a tremolo cranked at maximum volume.
Goo Goo dolls - Iris BDDDDD
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Some Ds are tight. Other Ds are lose. Are you describing boobs? Lmao
craigdamage I tried this and the strings went out of tune but somehow sounded good together.
Damn that Lou reed is sick
i really like FACGCE
or as i call it: "american football tuning"
Peevin the hallowed Midwest emo tuning
yee
Such a fun tuning to noodle with
Alip Ba Ta, Dear God
how do we actually alternate tuning? does the clip on tuner detects specific tuning like F#? or is it just fixed to detect the standard tuning? i’ve never bought a tuner i just use the phone app. i’m considering buying a tuner if it does the work hahah
I just love drop D for how soft it can make songs. Everlong is a perfect example- there's some beautiful soft, slow and low areas where the D string adds a sort of rumble under the chords. The chorus uses it to get some more bass for the powerchords. Best alternate tuning, by far.
TheMadKraken2297 drop d just gives the guitar so much more oomf
Drop d is mostly all I play of course I’m a metal head but even when I’m just messing around when I pick up the guitar and just start noodling and jamming around drop d is the best and my All time favorite. It’s like best of both worlds can write some heavy ass riffs but also play casually without changing tuning or anything.
Plus Drop D blues has a different level of darkness compared to standard tuning Blues
Oh, I am so glad to see/hear you play something in New Standard Tuning!
One octave down from Standard E
DEBAGD (Dimebag Darrell tuning)
BAGDAD (Bomb tuning)
One octave down from Drop A
GGGGGG
Octave down from drop A, that's at least a nine string tuning yeah?
Yeah, Glass Cloud basically.
I get Keith Richards didn’t use the low E string but it’s easier to just drop it to a D and use it as a drone note it’s also killer for playing with a slide
You can also just tune your low E string up to a G too and have unison G strings. That's what Eagles of Death metal do.
@@BaBaBaBenny did not know that.
Pearl Jam's Daughter can be played easily on open G...
I dont even bother tuning it. I just leave it as a low E and try not to hit it when I'm playing. I usually use it for slide and playing Keith stuff (as do most people)
Yes, why remove and waste a string? Also sounds good with the open D and hitting seventh fret harmonics on the other strings
whenever i hit my guitar, the tuning goes to AAAAAA
JM8 the classic ‘Glitter Sound, as in Rock n Roll Part 2 in the Joker
A man can be good, but when he inspire hendrix, he's the man
i Love Rob Scallon CABBAGE Tuning :v
Kind of Andrew huang as well
oh boy, I wish I had a seven-string guitar
Ahaha it was really sounds good at my 7strings guitar
Sounded cool by Ichika Nito too!
Man, I'm stuck with one cheap acoustic guitar:( ... Not that if I had better one I could close to anyone of you guys even in distant future tbh
BDDDDD is a funny tuning and is used by the song Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls
bro honestly I wish I had a separate guitar just for that song
That tuning is almost identical as big come-down by Nine Inch Nails which uses all D tuning.
@@caesaro.2286 They got that from Lou Reed, who called it ostrich guitar. He used it on the Velvet Underground songs "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Heroin", and "Venus In Furs".
I was trying to learn that song, then I saw the wack ass tuning and dipped.
@@hickorymccay2994 the singer John Rzeznik is known to just go wild with tunings when writing songs so it's probably just coincidence that it's "ostrich tuning"
The Brown note
José LDLCM Drop Brown tuning
@@DavidNwokoye jajaja
Neon Brown.
Every Day I Got The Browns
The one note able to make a person shit their pants on contact.
Also good tuning(s) that i use are
Fmaj9 FACGCE
Dmaj9 DAC#EAE
Gmin7? or Bb6/D - either way i'm using the first 3 strings as a drone chord DGDFBbD
Try em out, they fun
OMG, YOU REALLY DID MENTION CGCFCE (AKA NICK DRAKE TUNING)
That's So freaking Nice Man
Truly, now is when we rise and we are everywhere
That baritone was the best sounding of all the tunings i loved that heaviness to the riffs
The black keys tuning lick you did sounds like it could be a new John Mayer hit single.
DAEAC#E for all my math rock nerds out here
the bassist443 Thanks man! I love math rock!
LEMME TELL YOU WHAT I THINK ABOUT FROOOOOOOOG SPIT!!
Sean Crawford I’M FOR IT
@@seancrawford4786 I live near Philadelphia and I always sing that to myself when passing that fountain
@@seancrawford4786 I freaking love algernon
I spent a whole year in new standard once. Wrote some of the best music i've ever made, and I came back to standard a way better player in general. Really underrated tuning imo
How much tension does it add to the neck and strings?
Captains Log, Day 3: I have replaced my guitar strings 13 times since reading the comments. I hope to find that perfect tuning soon.
The Robert Fripp tuning is awesome. I need to try that.
illuminOz, liked his collaboration with David Bowie on Heroes but that’s really it. Sort of sounded very Shoegaze-y.
Robert Fripp's playing might not be understood by some. However,he's unique and original ,obscure,abstract etc. King Crimson would change total band line up players from album to album, but just Robert alone still keeps the King Crimson's sonic melodic vibe alive. You know it's King Crimson regardless of the era and line up.
He deserves recognition for originality.
could you tell me what string should I use for this tuning?
One of my favorites is FACGCE, it's used in a lot of twinkly math rock stuff, American Football, TTNG, Yvette Young, just to name a few.
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Thanks for the reference, I'm always looking for tunings to throw my self for a loop and break outta the ruts!
I tuned my guitar to open D cuz I was watching a playthrough of "Shibuya" by Yvette Young (well, she plays the song with a capo, but whatever), but because my strings are like six months old, they don´t stay in tune well. One day, coming back from college, I picked up my guitar and the strings tune themselves higher by a semitone, but I didn´t like it, so I tuned it another semitone higher and now I play in open E, wich I like sooooo much more than open D. (I could´ve just said this at the beggining, but I don´t have anything else to do).
Nice
D a d g a d, the "Kashmir" tuning.
DADFAE is an interesting one, used by Opeth on the album "Ghost Reveries"
My favorite album of all time. Their best lineup too. Back before Mikael wrote off metal.
Great tuning
Dadfae better than open d major
I love the "new strings that haven't been tuned" tuning
Also EBDGad, cause Andy McKee 👍
if you know Nick drake surely you know Elliott Smith? he also did weird tunings, and also died young, and was a amazing acoustic song writer. Independence day would be a great song if not introduced yet, very cool use of some sort of open c tuning.
Standard tuning is bae, but I also love standard C for my heavier songs and clean parts
Yeah man, C Standard quenches my thirst for dirty QOTSA riffs.
E Drop D D# and Drop C# are the tunings i use most
Seymour D. Buttz yeah, but I was talking more about my own riffs, it’s like a thrashier melodeath
Drop b and c 4 life
Standard tuning isn't BAE, its EADGBE, geez, some people.
I have my own tuning. I call it the Dulcitone Tuning, because it's based off the the Dulcimer tuning, and it sounds very medieval. It's DADDAD. Really simple. Sounds nice on acoustic.
E modal tuning: EEEEBE. Crosby, Stills, & Nash used that tuning on "Carry On".
Looks like a fairly weird tuning
DADGAD, when you need to bring out your inner Highlander
Imraan Akollo-Arenz or CADGAD
Drop X chromosome tuning
Julian Gonzalez you mean me
Lol
Watching a vid like this and realizing you have a floyd rose bridge
Lukas Kuipers have fun with that whammy bro!!! Or have different guitars for different tunings like I do so you don’t have to worry about all that tuning shit
Stone Gulliksen kinda difficult w/ no money
Lukas Kuipers True, I have an EVH Striped Series Frankenstein but I mostly keep in E flat
thats why i only play hard tails :v
Realiscally you could just Block it, play around with different tunings and then when you find the one you really like, just unblock it and readjust the claw in the back till the guitar is back in tune to what you want it to be. all it is, is a tention balenceing act between the strings and the springs in the back, if the guitar was in tune with the block, then all you would need to to do it again adjust that claw. easy stuff, might sound scary but just try it, the worst that could happen is you break a string
The fact that you can keep track of your neck while switching up the tuning like that is wildly impressive
Great video! Check out these 5 string Open G variations, and you'll be glad you did:
1. Starting with your standard Open G tuning, drop the B string half a step for Open G minor (G D G A# D)
2. Starting with your standard Open G tuning, drop the low G string to an E for super jazzy/(added 6th) barre chords (E D G B D)
Open D is actually called the WIDE OPAHN tuning.
That's open D5.
Wide ophnd tuning
@Music is Win I recommend checking out Superuknown by Soundgarden. It has a ton of fun alternate tunings to play, but my favourite out of all of it is Like Suicide. The tuning is just so unique to me; DGDGBC, it just sounds majestic. Also The Day I Tried to Live’s tuning is EEBBBB. I also recommend checking out Badmotorfinger, with Mind Riot; every string tuned to E and Rusty Cage & Searching with My Good Eye Closed; both songs are tuned BADGBE. Soundgarden is a great band, especially for alternate tunings, and is actually my favourite band of all time, they are just so unique. Highly recommend checking them out.
freakboi also my favorite band of all time.
Don't forget Seasons: FFCCCF
This was my original comment with Down on the Upside or Super Unknown...learn the whole album...lots of tunings and crazy time signatures that sound 4/4 but aren't. Just 2 amazing freaking albums. Rock on!!!👍🤘✌
MVSA,
This is part of the Wikipedia article on Superunknown. I only listed the tunings, not the time signatures which are also covered following this excerpt.
Everyone enjoy and try some of these yourselves. They work!
Check out the article when so inclined.
Soundgarden utilized alternative tunings and odd time signatures on several of the album's songs. "Spoonman", "Black Hole Sun", "Let Me Drown" and "Kickstand" were performed in drop D tuning while "Mailman" and "Limo Wreck" employed CGDGBE tuning. Some songs used more unorthodox tunings: "My Wave" and "The Day I Tried to Live" are both in an EEBBBB tuning. "Head Down" and "Half" both utilised CGCGGE tuning, "4th of July" is in a similar CFCGBE tuning; and "Like Suicide" is performed in DGDGBC tuning.
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Btw, I would like to note that Kim Thayall says that TRUE Drop D tuning is NOT just dropping the low E to D.
He says it involves actually dropping both the low E AND the A down.anfull pitch.
So low E becomes D and A drops down to G.
Straight from the horses mouth
And he should know. He claims they STARTED the trend.
Rock on!
Head Down is another one off Superunknown.
It’s C-G-C-G-G-E
Sonic Youth used some awesome alternative Tunings!
quentinateacid they create tunings
HA jokes on you i'll just learn my minor pentatonic licks in the alternate tunings!
I recommend DAEAAe
just listen to some sky sailing to get b bit of a feeling but you have to play with it to really get the feel
it's very unique and I certainly would recommend it
(tune down a step and use a capo to avoid breaking any strings😉)
Your electric bill must be rediculous with having those amps on all the time...
that YT revenue
Victor Kirsch yeah but he has so many of them
With Open G, can you not just leave the 6th string on and put it down to a D?
I usually don't even bother to do that when playing Stones stuff, i just tune the A string down to G and usually even leave the high E to E to just get those tasty Keith Richards chords (think of Brown Sugar for example)
It was kind of a joke. Keith Richards took the low E off his guitar for a few tours.
@@guitarmemoir
It's not a joke. Keith learned to play guitar on an acoustic in open G with five strings.
@HUUUUUURRRR
Didn't Tyler say switching to one of those tunings would make you more creative? ;-)
DGDGBD is the normal tuning. DGDGBE is also a useful variant on a similar idea.
FACGCe - American Football tuning
I was hoping for that one.
Let's juuuuuust forgeeeeeet
My favourite of all time.
He didn't even mention Midwest emo. What an amateur
He could easily have mentioned it as an augmentation of the Nick Drake tuning cos the it's the same except for the 5th and 6th strings
@@sanny8716 eVERYTHING SAID
That blue/purple paint job is incredible
My favorite tuning is cfcfac, it is a super fun tuning.
DAEAC#E or FACGCE
Midwest Emo Gang :)
this guy gets it
What about DADG#AE or your Dad Gae tuning
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AGCFAd, Open Cmadd9, and the Limo Wreck tuning, CGDGBe are all really cool
Periphery's tuning ;))) mainly used on Omega and P3
I know this video was posted a while ago, but if you see this, i just wanted to say...
The Danelectro 66 is such an impractical guitar, the right handed side shoulder is higher than the left hand side, and that's if you get the right handed cut!
Thank you George Harrison, very cool
Here are my favorite tunings I've sort of stumbled upon through my playing with weird tunings.
6 String:
D-A-B-D-A-B (good for Thursday style emo)
7 String:
F-C-G-C-F-G-D (F and G allow for easy minor 2nd intervals)
8 String:
C-G-D-G-C-F-G-D (The high C constantly changes to add more interesting or harsh intervals/adding mirco-tones in relation to the F string)
Robert Fripp also uses Full Fifths Tuning (C2, G2, D3, A3, E4, B4) by using a set of Octave4Plus 5ths Tuning Strings which have a .006 Gauge Plain Steel String designed to tune to High B (The Thinnest Wound String is now a 13 made by Octave4Plus because over the years string technology has improved &experimental alloys were used).
I hope you cover Drop L tuning.
Or drop z
Double drop Z
Haha Triple drop z
Talk about the brown note.
I'm calling stevie right now... gotta let him know lol
First, I need a guitar
And girlfriend
Or fingers
Get pubic hair
get a skunk
Get a banjo
THANK YOU for mentioning Nick Drake 🙏🙏🙏
Just tried the Nick Drake tuning. And damn thanks for that man. Everything sounds so emotional and dreamy in that tuning. Just what I needed to boost my creativity.
I appreciate how chill this video is. To be honest, I unsubscribed a while ago due to how over the top some of the prior videos were. This is a breath of fresh air from this channel.
You can open G with 6 strings. Works good on an acoustic guitar
Michael Greiner absolutely!
How very un-Keef of you. 😉
Michael Greiner you just have to tune the low Estring to DC and it doesn’t work with some chords and you have to mute it.
Michael Greiner you just have to tune in the low Estring to DC. It works with some chords otherwise mute it
Michael Greiner low e to d must mute sometimes
1. Drop A#
2. Drop A#
3. Drop A#
4. Drop A#
5. Drop A#
6. Drop A#
7. Drop A#
Double Drop Q?
XYN hell ye brother
XYN I used have Drop A# but I tuned down to Drop A man, sounds more dark.
@@raydog_97 Drop A is great too, but I like Drop A# because it sounds great for a lot of genres of music. From metalcore to alternative rock/metal and post-grunge, Drop A# sounds great.
Facts
5:50 made me feel something i havent felt ever
T i m e F o r Y o u T o L i s t e n T o S o m e K i n g C r i m s o n
After a couple years of playing, I finally decided to play in drop d. The result surprised me a lot. It is like a brand new world is front of me. I will try and the other tunings too and I'm sure that it will be awesome. Thanks for your videos mate, they are pretty good.
My personal favorite: Drop €
I prefer £ standard
@@LeglessWonder personally would go for drop $ but to each their own
I Prefer Drop ¥
I only got ¢ tuning
@@AlexPhantom1292 Weeb!
So yeah, I paused. I watched King Crimson. I now realize that I have been living life so horribly wrong, how could I not have known of this godly madness.
Just retuned my old selmer nylon string to Nick Drake tuning... Love that lovely bass note on the bottom string. Great for a kind of call and response tune and as soon as you hit the strings it just screams Nick Drake all over !! Thankyou, I'm gonna spend some time with this tuning :O)
Don't know if it was mentioned in comments, but Ben Howard uses an awesome alternate tuning. He uses various different ones but the main one he used on the entire "Every Kingdom" album is awesome to play in. Mainly for acoustic stuff.
That acoustic guitar you used in this video is majestic a super beautiful guitar
Sometimes I just like dropping my B string down to an A for E, A, D, G, A, E I found it was a subtle way to get my feet wet in alternate tunings without getting too far away from the familiar, but having enough of a change to get more out of my playing.
Then there is that crazy tuning Alex DeGrassi uses for his song Western. D, A, D, G, C#, Eb which is a bit strange, but when you hear what Alex does with this tuning it is tempting to want to experiment with it. I had a guitar teacher years ago who actually made me learn Western, and it was by far one of the most interesting learning experiences on guitar in my nearly 32-years of playing.
Try E E E E E F
Double Drop Z
That's not how it works chief
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To be totally honest, I feel like guitarists are bipolar or something about Baritone guitars. At first, we all go "Ohh, it sounds so big and beautiful." But then everyone makes jokes about downtuning and stuff. Take Drop A for example. It's the tuning that a lot of Deathcore, chug chug bands use. Everyone goes "So brain dead, tune up!"
Hint Hint: Drop A is to Baritone tuning, as Drop D is to E standard.
Can we get some consistency in here?
@@royalcat10 totally agree with you! I think all tunings are great.it all comes down to the sound you're looking for for a specific song.
D#A#A#F#A#D
My favourite weird tuning.. Smashing pumpkins use it for the song 'Mayonnaise'
I love you bro
Just by you saying "pause this video and go watch another" shows how good of a person you are.
I use a version of open C. CGCGCC Having the upper two strings tuned the same gives you a kind of chorus effect and makes for some interesting chords when you're playing one of them open and one of them fretted.
was going to comment something similar figured I'd tag it to yours, I play in CGCEGG, with very similar effect. Acoustic, most of the time.
Sweeettttt! The C tuning is beautiful; and DADGAD - yup!
Thank You
fixed up my first baritone a few days ago, and IM NEVER GOING BACK!!!!!!
DADGAD is the best for folk/celtic sounding stuff.
Here’s one thats being used more by metal bands
Its called drop “riff” tuning (really idk what its called but I’ve only seen it referred to as that
So that a standard drop tuning, lets say drop A#(A# F A# D# G C) and drop the low string to say G or F#
Now you have essentially more access to lower and higher notes at once. Its a simple change but it might make your djenty riffs a bit spicier
my new favorite tuning is CGDGAD. Just what ever i play sounds good and unique. It's easy to add 9s, 11s and 13s with the open strings which can to some extent be very difficult or impossible in standard tunings. It just gives such an amazing sound
2:04 kerry king has no power here
Kerry king is crying rn
@@rotnmold7861 not to worry those strings are just about to be replaced
2:04 That's right we're removing the Thick E String off the Guitar and tuning it essentially like a Standard Banjo that's G, D, G, B, D.
Or almost every metal band
Karnivool, Ben Howard, American Football and Periphery (like open Cadd9) alternate tunings are absolutely the greatest, Karnivool’s are wacky as hell, especially on ‘Themata’ and pretty much all of their songs are in different tunings
Perfect fourths E-A-D-G-C-F; but I prefer Eb perfect fourths= Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-E-B.
Tom Quayle's tuning! It's hard to play chords with it, however
@Greg Peterson Of course you can play chords. But when you are used to the standard tuning, even a simple E with the 6 strings is tricky to play ;)
i tried out drop d fourths D-A-D-G-C-F
NST is my absolute favorite tuning, love dropping it half a step down as well for that low b note
I am a bassist by trade. However, this is amazing to me! I am feeling inspired to pull out my Ibanez ‘law suit’ Les Paul copy guitar and start experimenting! Thank you.
8:21 this tuning is the B standard tuning
Yep there are strings that are super thick for this tuning
"That's Robert Fripp. He's good at guitar".
Now that you own an ES335, how about making a "habits of Cream era Clapton" video?
Didn't he use an sg?
Darth Ciliatus he used a variety of guitars: SG, Les Pauls, a Firebird, and an ES335. He used the ES in the final concert which was one of the few and the most famous Cream concert caught on tape.
YES I WOULD LOVE THAT VIDEO
cream is one of my favorites and clapton is a legend
For that open G, keep the low string on and tune it to D. This is the tuning Robert Johnson used and it allows for the alternate bass note when doing fingerstyle guitar or slide.
I currently have my epiphone Les Paul in open d ( aka: Vestapol ) and I absolutely love it. With this tuning one can play T-Rex's '20th century boy' and George Thorogood and the destroyers 'Who Do You Love?' with ease.
Messing around with open tunings I discovered DADF#BE. Even wrote a tune. Later I discovered Misha (Bulb) Mansoor wrote "Epic Fail" with it.
Check out José Gonzalez he has quite a few songs on that tuning
Drop C# is my favorite tuning right now. Idk why it just sounds cool
What happened to Drop D Half step?
DADEAE or as I call it, "the poor man's 12-string"
Is that the G string down to E or up to E ? ;)
@@benleydon down I'd imagine as its 3 semitones down vs ...at least 8 semitones up
I use this tuning a lot on acoustic. One of my favorites.
Brian Robison, dont you know that the famous "Nashville tuning" is called by everyone "the poor man's 12 string" and thats EADGBE, only the 4 lowest strings an octave higher.ruclips.net/video/2JLdPU_RKxc/видео.html
@@pauldepter6031 That's not really a 12-string, though, is it? a 12-string is 6 strings but they all have a string next to them tuned the same. Brian Robison's looks way more like a "poor man's 12-string" than EADGBE
You're an amazing guitarist, bro. I could sit and listen to you all day. So creative...........
I accidentally came across one of my favorite alternate tunings, when a friend came round to jam and told me he was tuned to C
I continued to play in Standard along with him at the time, then once he had left I looked up the tuning for;
"Open C" [ C G C G C E]
Very easy to play with and the sound instantly has a Western Cowboy feel.
It wasn't until I saw my friend again a few months later once I mentioned it, that he told me he was in;
"Standard C" [ C F A♯ D♯ G C ]
not open C (hence the accident), which is 2 whole steps lower than standard tuning, so I guess playing style will be similar to Standard Tuning and the Baritone Tuning mentioned in the video, but unlike the Baritone which requires a Baritone guitar, this can be tuned in, on a standard guitar with heavier guage strings.
So, although I got it wrong, Im happy I did, because I actually came out of that jamming session with a recording I quickly turned into a song and a new tuning I was instantly able to write new and interesting melodies with.
From my experience, I have found that Open C is also a fantastic tuning for;
Finger tapping melodies,
Single note playing with the other 5 strings ringing out the open chord,
Finger picking melodies
And actually being so easy to use, its genuinely quite difficult to play something wrong.
Another interesting Tuning I saw somebody using was the;
"All Fourths Tuning" [ E A D G C F ]
If you are used to standard tuning, playing your usual open chords in this tuning sounds hideous. You can play your standard chords using the 6th - 3rd strings, as these are unchanged from standard tuning and muscle memory hinders you to try and alter your finger shapes to play the correct notes for open chords.
That being said though, this tuning is designed to make the guitar more symetrical (you are now able to tune every string using the 5th fret ) which makes playing scales, super fast soloing and just generally finding your way around the fretboard, a walk in the park compared to Standard Tuning.
I havn't done much with this one to be honest, soloing isn't my thing really, but it is interesting and certainly has its uses.