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Mar 20 2010, 01:32 PM
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... when you are using an alternate tuning on your guitar?
I guess we all know how to play an e for example, don't we?  So as long as our guitars are tuned normally what we hold down on the fretboard is the same as what we hear, an e. In Blind Guardian we don't use the standard tuning though, our guitars are tuned down half a note, so when I hold down an e I actually don't hear that chord, what I hear is an e flat. Still we always call it e, I guess because we are too lazy to think about our tuning and "convert" the chord to what we really hear... now I just wonder how you guys deal with this, do you also always call an e an e, independent of your tuning?
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Mar 21 2010, 12:33 PM
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Live we also have a Keyboarder playing with us, and whenever we go through songs and I tell him stuff like " In that part you have to play an E minor..." he always asks me if I am talking about a "real" E minor or "our" e minor
 By now he got used to the fact that we ALWAYS talk about OUR chords, but I guess in the beginning it was pretty confusing for him.
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Mar 21 2010, 02:56 PM
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Thats exactly what our keyboarder does, his Keyboards are detuned to match our tuning
and no, I definitely don't want to mess around with weird open tunings and try to explain somebody what to play In that case I would give that person a cd and tell him to learn the songs until our next rehearsal 
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Mar 22 2010, 02:56 PM
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Your approach is pretty much the same as mine, I think of positions on the fretboard too, not of tonalities, and actually most other guitarists that I know think in a similar way, as you said, we are a different species among musicians
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Mar 24 2010, 07:36 PM
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True, on our debut the guitars were not tuned down, but ever since Follow the Blind we are in E flat. And well, in my humble opinion it doesn't really matter what you call a chord, as long es everybody knows what you mean everything is fine
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Mar 24 2010, 07:48 PM
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My band is also tuned Eb. We still call it E
It's just easier for us to communicate that way. I guess it's because most of those chords are where the dots are painted on the neck. The first time that system didn't work (it still workerd but read on...) was when Maestro Mistheria played a show with me. We were on the rehearsal in Croatia and he didn't retune his keyboard. If we are in Eb then he really plays Eb. He is such a great musician that if you tell him let's play a song but in the key where you don't have any "white key" on the keyboard, he would just say OK and do the job with no sigle second of thinking about transposing. We were still playing our E and he was playing Eb Whole 2 hours show was done almost perfect.I guess it's just a preference to call it that way. If the system works for you guys then why not using it. -------------------- Check out my <a href="https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/instructor/Emir-Hot" target="_blank">Instructor profile</a>
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Mar 25 2010, 07:28 PM
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I always admire people that transpose stuff just like that, but well... I prefer the lazy way and still call it E
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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