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Posted by: psychoguitarist_619 Oct 18 2006, 05:03 PM

which is ur favourite tuning??? I LOVE drop d tunin....... coz i can play the powerchords without havin to stretch at all!!!

Posted by: Liam Oct 18 2006, 09:45 PM

i love them both , but i never play in drop d .


My friends his band plays in drop d . fokking heavy sound with the mesa boogie

Posted by: sanders4617 Oct 18 2006, 10:29 PM

I prefer normal tuning... I RARELY drop to D. There are only like 1 or 2 songs that I know in Drop D, and believe it or not.. Do not use powerchords.

Posted by: bricktop Oct 20 2006, 03:38 AM

I prefer standard tuning, there's only a few songs I know that are in drop d. I'd say I more often tune down 1/2 step or full step for most songs I sing and play.

There is one John Mayer song that I'm working on that's in drop C , it's called "neon" I almost got it finished!

John

Posted by: sanders4617 Oct 20 2006, 03:46 AM

I love that song.. John Mayer is probably my favorite artist. =D Thats a tricky song though.. especially singing and playing.

Posted by: Red Tie Oct 20 2006, 11:33 AM

never use powerchords?
What about it?

Posted by: bricktop Oct 22 2006, 02:50 AM

hey sanders4617,

Yeah, I didn't realise how tough some of his stuff was. I was only gonna learn one song, "why georgia", and then I was impressed with his playing and different techniques. I'd say neon and stop this train use some different finger picking styles that I would never have come across before.

john

Posted by: RIP Dime Oct 22 2006, 08:34 AM

Drop-D is cool for heavy metal powerchord riffing, but I tend not to use it because it messes with other chords to much. I have two guitars, and one of them I tune down a half step, and if I had another guitar I would tune it down 1 whole step .

Posted by: Suthern Oct 28 2006, 05:22 AM

Anyone play in Eb tuning? I'm sort of new to playing with different tunings, but I tried this and love it.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Oct 28 2006, 09:11 AM

Yes I do. It gives a little heavier sound, and decreases string tension which makes crossing the string with the pick easier (speedpicking!).

I would downtune more often if I didn't have floating bridges.

Posted by: Suthern Oct 28 2006, 03:46 PM

Thanks for the reply Kris, am I going to run into any trouble using Eb as I am learning?

Posted by: Arto Oct 31 2006, 06:50 PM

Bah floating bridges, I have an Ibanez that was a floating bridge, but for the life of me I could never tune it. So i just cut a wood block and put it in the back of the guitar. No more wammy for me .

Posted by: BollyRotten Oct 31 2006, 08:01 PM

I use standard tuning. Have messed with drop D for a nickelback track and a nirvana song. But only to play along to them. It was ages ago so not looked at it since.