Cool Alternate Tunings

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RRFAN123456789
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Cool Alternate Tunings

Post by RRFAN123456789 »

I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are tired of standard. I have a couple of other tunings that may give you a totally different, but good sound

Eb Tuning (Tuning on Diary of a Madman)

D#
G#
C#
F#
A#
D#

D Standard (Used by Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix)

D
G
C
F
A
D

Drop D (Jimmy Page uses it on Moby Dick)

D
A
D
G
B
E

C# Standard (Used by Tony Iommi)

C#
F#
B
E
G#
C#

Open A (Used by Jack White on Seven Nation Army)

E
A
E
A
C#
E

Dsus4 (Used by Jimmy Page on Kashmir)

D
A
D
G
A
D

WARNING: Trying to come out of these tunings may break lighter gauge strings.
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Re: Cool Alternate Tunings

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RRFAN123456789 wrote:I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are tired of standard.Eb Tuning (Tuning on Diary of a Madman)

D#
G#
C#
F#
A#
D#
Standard tuning done flat 8)
RRFAN123456789 wrote:C# Standard (Used by Tony Iommi)

C#
F#
B
E
G#
C#
RRFAN123456789 wrote:WARNING: Trying to come out of these tunings may break lighter gauge strings.
Well, it worked out well for Iommi, using super thin strings in a superlow tuning ;)
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Re: Cool Alternate Tunings

Post by Paul Wolfe »

The funny thing to me is that Randy tuned a half step down for Diary because the tuner they used was 'miscalibrated' in Randy's words.
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