Good Alternative Tunings

crowhue · Post by **crowhue** » Wed May 11, 2011 9:07 pm

Just got this off a tabbed Andy McKee (great player) song.

EADGAD

Any others?

Post by **Olly** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:41 pm

I have been using double drop D tuning (DADGBD) for learning A Song For George by Eric Johnson.

It is the first time I have really experimented with altered tunings and you can get some interesting results!

Apache · Post by **Apache** » Thu May 12, 2011 7:28 pm

I've been playing around with some stuff in drop D - mainly because a couple of Rammstein tracks use that.

Another used drop C - but I decided that was a lot of hassle as I needed to retune every string so had a play and left that one...

Although if I found more in drop C, i'd probably leave one guitar in that (i normally have the ESP in drop D and the schecter in open, but as the schecter doesn't have a floyd rose changing from open to drop D is no biggie

)

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Fri May 13, 2011 12:02 pm

I keep it al EADGBE.

saurabhwillread · Post by **saurabhwillread** » Wed May 22, 2013 5:35 pm

I usually use Drop D tuning while performing live,
for songs that use bar chords..

bondmorkret · Post by **bondmorkret** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:27 pm

A lot of modern fusion guitarists seems to be using all fourths tuning (EADGCF). Keeps all your scale and chord shapes the same!

fineincrements · Post by **fineincrements** » Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:21 pm

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