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#1 chris.

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Posted 20 July 2011 - 08:58 PM

what are some good and different alternate tunings to mess around in? any suggestions please help any suggestions would be much apprciated [biggrin]

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 03:57 AM

Well Jimmy Page often uses the DADGAD, alot of songs which are veering towards heavy metal use Drop D, which is DADGBA. Also a good one is E A E A C# E, which is used for slide guitar alot. Seven Nation Army was written in Open A, as well as In My Time of Dying by Zeppelin.

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 06:06 AM

Drop D is useful for folky finger style etc.....DADGBE.....

DADGAD is nice...possibly invented by the great Davey Graham

Open G...dropped 'A' form tuning for slide a la Keith Richards

Open D...dropped 'E' form for slide etc....

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#4 Jon S.

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Posted 29 August 2011 - 07:50 PM

My fav's are open G and open E.

#5 NoFrills

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Posted 29 August 2011 - 10:37 PM

DADDDD The G being the same octave as the standard D, the B and E are the octave up.

I'm currently covering a standard tuned song in an alternative tuning EBEEBE Capo on the Second Fret.
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#6 L5Larry

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Posted 29 August 2011 - 11:25 PM

My favorite tuning is G 6/9 add 13. In fact I use it exclusively!

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Posted 30 August 2011 - 02:27 AM

I have enjoyed Em11 for some time now.....

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#8 L5Larry

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Posted 30 August 2011 - 10:02 AM

L5Larry, on 29 August 2011 - 11:25 PM, said:

My favorite tuning is G 6/9 add 13. In fact I use it exclusively!

I guess I should have used a few "emoticons" to denote the humorous nature of my post. BUT, this really is the tuning I use, if anyone wants to decipher it! :-k

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Posted 05 September 2011 - 04:40 PM

D G C G Bflat E

Jerry Reed uses it in a few of his songs.

#10 thatweissmullersinger

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Posted 01 October 2011 - 01:56 AM

I use three tunings:

EADGBE, DADAAD, GGDGGD.

That may be the reason I get lost sometimes [confused]

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Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:37 AM

I live and die by Eb standard! But also play "open g" which is really open f# (Db F# Db F# Bb Db) Do some open D(flat of course) and have even experimented with the good ol' 7-string-on-a-6-string tuning (Bb Ab Db F# Bb Eb)

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