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Posted by: PacmanProductions Sep 10 2007, 09:32 AM

yeah, so i was in the GMC chat room and Paul Gilbert's "Get out of my yard" came up... looked at a video and then at a tab....it says to tune the G, B, and high E strings all to E......how the heck can i do that without a tuner?????

E-A-D-E-E-E

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 10 2007, 09:58 AM

Well thats an odd tuning, i guess you could just use your high e as a reference and tune all the strings till they are the same pitch as the high e.

Seems like a G String would break under that kind of tension though.

Posted by: InstruMental Case Sep 10 2007, 12:11 PM

Hmm... from what I've seen Paul plays that one on a double-neck with the bottom neck having only three strings (tuned to E in octaves).

Posted by: muris Sep 14 2007, 09:03 AM

G string goes down for minor third interval,high and low E stay the same which gives E in 3 octaves.
Did I miss something?

Posted by: JOhn Sep 14 2007, 03:09 PM

doesn't he use a 12 string for the start?

Posted by: muris Sep 14 2007, 10:12 PM

We were talking about lower guitar which Paul uses to play main theme(arpeggio lick).
Right guys?

Posted by: botoxfox Sep 15 2007, 02:10 AM

Explanation of the three string guitar:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1hgocfxiA

Posted by: muris Sep 15 2007, 03:50 AM

Yeah,he tuned D string up to E here...
But I don't think he has D string on main video at all.
Only wounded string there is lowest one which is low E....

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 15 2007, 05:17 AM

Paul is odd.

Posted by: muris Sep 15 2007, 05:20 AM

Odd and funny!!

Posted by: DeepRoots Sep 15 2007, 05:40 AM

heres a link for the double neck (with the 3 octave Es) on the lower neck- using a human capo for the lower notes in the arpeggios. Pretty clever as it means he can play each arp in three octaves in a symmetrical pattern.

It's the intro to Get out of my Yard btw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aYlx5gW90Aw&mode=related&search=

EDIT: btw he's using a Boss DD6 digital delay in the start to get that "space ship landing" sound
and the top neck is tuned standard- and he plays the rest of the track on that neck (atleast live anyway)