Downtuning but in a different way....

[Blazer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN7YHbQjwjo

Pat Metheny covering Norah Jones' hit "don't know why" and he does so using a baritone guitar that is tuned with a little twist. The whole guitar is tuned in a low A but his G string is tuned up a full octave and his B string is tuned down a full octave. and what kind of result does that yield?

Listen for yourself...

[Robert Burns]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN7YHbQjwjo
Pat Metheny covering Norah Jones' hit "don't know why" and he does so using a baritone guitar that is tuned with a little twist. The whole guitar is tuned in a low A but his G string is tuned up a full octave and his B string is tuned down a full octave. and what kind of result does that yield?

Listen for yourself...

What does that yield? Heavenly tone! Wow..that was great.
I doubt i could ever get my thumb involved that much tho.. cool doing
his own walking bass line. Thanks for sharing this! You cost me another
hour of my life...cause now i have to check out 8 or 9 other Metheny
vids!

[scotty]

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Now I too need to watch more. damn you!

[Blazer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5-pBkwyUxc

Check this out, Metheny is known for his many crazy custom guitars. Here he plays a half scale Custom Ibanez tuned up a full octave but boy does he get some beautiful tones from it...