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[Trynant]

I could have sworn there was a thread where forumers posted their music, but the only one I could find was something way back in 2007 and I'm afraid of necromancy.

ANYWAYS

I was messing around with my guitar tuning and found an interesting tuning, which goes something like EACGAC (i.e. tune down 1st 2nd and 4th string a ton). This allowed me to play something similar to slack-key guitar, and I found that just playing open notes or holding down all the strings on one fret made for a neat tune.

The result of messing around is linked below.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?52gqjmzmzkdzz12
Most of the "song" I'm just switching from open to 7th fret to 12th fret to 7th to open. Incidentally the riff can be played with all harmonics, which I also made a short sound clip of.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?5ozm5zlgyfiwi5z
I'm wondering what songs you all have found that mess around with tunings in a neat way. Sonic Youth I know does a lot of this stuff, but I'm rather in the dark as to how far alternate tunings can go.

[Zingoleb]

EACGAC (i.e. tune down 1st 2nd and 4th string a ton)

I lol'd.

[Lummer]

I used B F# B F# A C# for a previous metal band I played in. Naturally, we sucked, but the tuning was pretty neat! Maybe I ought to to find an acoustic and mess around with it again.
Anyways, these days i just play in G#, ie. 7-string tuned down 3 semi-tones.

[Johnny C]

CGCGCE

[Thrillho]

I always liked double Drop-C, which is something like CGCFAC.

[Moist Cowboy]

EEEEEE = coolest. tuning. ever.

[carrotosaurus]

C F C F C F

is a fave, but this is my current tuning:

D A D F# B E

[Christophe]

DACGAE (which entails detuning the first, third and fifth strings a step down) was my standard go-to alt tuning for a while. Nowadays though I'm pretty much in standard. If I had another good guitar I'd keep one for my alternate tuning needs.

[The Duke]

I've had my acoustic tuned down a whole step (DGCFAD) for a few months now, and I don't anticipate going back.  It sounds a lot richer.

[Zingoleb]

FADGBE is my personal favourite.

I also use EEEEBE (wherein you always tune down).

In before FAGFAG tuning.

[valley_parade]

Speaking of, I think Chris told me to try GAEFAG once, which just sounds horrible because of the half-step between E and F.

[Zingoleb]

I'm gonna try it just because I really like half-steps done right

[Patrick]

My friend doesn't like his father, so he's going to be trying out DADFAG and FAGDAD this week.

I tried GAEGAE once at Darryl's suggestion, and it actually yielded some cool results. I need to tune my Kay to that and maybe post what I come up with.