Tunings

[Vik]

Hy,

What tunings do you use and for what sounds ? What i mean is: which are the best tunings for thrash (think bay area), modern (real) metal (nevermore, COB for ex) and for progressive&neo-classic metal stuff (petrucci, malmsteen, romeo, etc). Oh, and i also am a big fan of Chuck Schuldiner - what tuning did he use ? If you can take the time and let me know what tunings are this great players using i'd really apreciate it.

Thanks, and please help me out as i'm pretty much a new guy with guitar playing !

[ChickenScratch]

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I play in standard tuning or down a half step for the shred stuff. Death plays in D.

[circle of the tyrants]

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C F A# D# G C is a cool tuning. Of course, you'll need a heavy-gauged set of strings.

[toejam]

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A couple of my guitars are tuned to standard E, most of them are Eb. Two are in D (the one with Floyd has five springs and 10-46 strings, the other with TOM bridge has 11-48). Sometimes I do the Drop D or Drop Db thing with the fixed bridges. My 7-string is standard tuning, of course with the low B, strung 10-46 with the B being a 56.

[Ninja Guitar]

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I usually play in Standard or drop-D. But lately I've started tuning to (low to high) BEADF#B, AEADF#B, and CFA#D#GC for Death/Thrash metal, which I really Like. I'm going to buy another guitar which will always be tuned to one of these tunings. String gauges 13-60 work fine, except for the low A which sounds rather dull and tubby.

[DeathIsMyJustice]

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I use Eb and droped Db for general practice but for songs and band stuff I use C-c [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

Rar!

[the_drip]

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D is for DEATH.


I play in C-F-A#-D#-G-C and standard and drop D. but all the stuff I make up is in C tuning. Becuase its the only guitar I brought with me to school.

[Black Mariah]

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I play mostly in D## and C#b. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] About a quarter step higher than D# and C, actually. It just sounds better to me than straight Eb or C. No clue why.

[Ninja Guitar]

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Well, lately I've been particular to drop Cb and a slightly higher Fb. I think I'll try this 7 string tuning soon:
E#
Fb
B#
A
Ab
B#b
G##b#

[Ninja Guitar]

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Hell, I should buy that 9 string soloist on sale, then I'll come up with some wierd, ambient and tense sounds that'll make Meshuggah **** their pants. Hell ya, my band will be called Stupid Wierd Ass Viking F*cker(s)

[the_drip]

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Originally posted by Ninja Guitar:
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Well, lately I've been particular to drop Cb and a slightly higher Fb. I think I'll try this 7 string tuning soon:
E#
Fb
B#
A
Ab
B#b
G##b#

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">drop Cb is the same as drop B you know this right? and your E# tuning of the low string has the same pitch as the Fb. dork. [img]graemlins/brow.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

an dif you want to double sharp a note teh ## turns into an X. FYI

[Ninja Guitar]

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E# doesn't=Fb, it is the same as F. Yes, I know Cb is really B and that ## is a x. I don't know if there's a symbol for double flat(bb) though.

[the_drip]

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oops, my bad. on the Fb...yeah still, you like having the two low strings backwards (as far as pitch?), there is no alternate symbol for a double flat.

[Ninja Guitar]

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yeah still, you like having the two low strings backwards (as far as pitch?)

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anything is possible [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

[the_drip]

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all I can say is....hurry and get a demo made!