Favourite Alternative Tunings?

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I picked up an acoustic a few times but much prefer electric guitars. They're completely different worlds.

I think there are some open tunings that sound awesome on acoustic though - I love to pick in open D and just figure out some variations on the open chord. Conventional open chords aren't easy in open D, but that just makes it easier to get something really different out of it.

conventional chord strumming on acoustics is for sitting around campfires and singing kum ba yah

Pretty much...

[donkey tugger]

I picked up an acoustic a few times but much prefer electric guitars. They're completely different worlds.

I think there are some open tunings that sound awesome on acoustic though - I love to pick in open D and just figure out some variations on the open chord. Conventional open chords aren't easy in open D, but that just makes it easier to get something really different out of it.

conventional chord strumming on acoustics is for sitting around campfires and singing kum ba yah

Pretty much...

Layering and percussion you heathens.

[Hink]

I picked up an acoustic a few times but much prefer electric guitars. They're completely different worlds.

I think there are some open tunings that sound awesome on acoustic though - I love to pick in open D and just figure out some variations on the open chord. Conventional open chords aren't easy in open D, but that just makes it easier to get something really different out of it.

conventional chord strumming on acoustics is for sitting around campfires and singing kum ba yah

Pretty much...

Layering and percussion you heathens.

boy your camp songs are much different than ours

[donkey tugger]

boy your camp songs are much different than ours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZj130-uzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

It would appear so.

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[Bombadil]

no favorites but sorry dude, I dont consider drop d alternate per se, just modifed.

https://soundcloud.com/hink/accoustic

Dude , that's just semantics. If a tuning is modified and not standard, it is, by definition, alternate.

Stills used EEEEBE for Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. I have yet to try it. It's funny, looking back, trying to learn songs in standard tuning that aren't played in standard. No wonder I couldn't get things to sound exactly right.

Keef uses open G, as well.

And how the heck can you tune a G string down to D without it flopping around?

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And how the heck can you tune a G string down to D without it flopping around?

On my 7 string I tuned the B down to an A and had to increase the gauge of the string to do it, but that's probably quite a jump up in gauge to make that drop.

[whyterabbyt]

432Hz on all five strings.

[vurt]

what's so bad about a floppy g string?

[AnX]

i use whatever its tuned to when i pull it out* of the gig bag....

*easy tiger

[AnX]

i keep meaning to find out the tuning for one finger barre chords, but i havent done it yet

one of these days

[Bombadil]

what's so bad about a floppy g string?

I have no answer to that.

[donkey tugger]

i keep meaning to find out the tuning for one finger barre chords, but i havent done it yet

one of these days

Just tune the low E down to D - instant powerchords on bottom 3 strings. Metel...

[AnX]

i keep meaning to find out the tuning for one finger barre chords, but i havent done it yet

one of these days

Just tune the low E down to D - instant powerchords on bottom 3 strings. Metel...

when you say bottom strings, do you mean the top strings that sound low, or bottom strings that sound high? i dont even have the last two high strings

[donkey tugger]

i keep meaning to find out the tuning for one finger barre chords, but i havent done it yet

one of these days

Just tune the low E down to D - instant powerchords on bottom 3 strings. Metel...

when you say bottom strings, do you mean the top strings that sound low, or bottom strings that sound high? i dont even have the last two high strings

I mean the 3 thickest ones!