Guitar Thread

Currently exploring a few different tunings which is both semi-exhilerating and annoying at having to re-tune guitar's as I don't have enough to go around.

What tuning(s) has really 'unlocked' the guitar for you in either playing style or methodology.

Has anyone stumbled across any particular tunings that aren't particularly known or recognised?

Happy Sunday morning everyone............ ;-)
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Currently exploring a few different tunings which is both semi-exhilerating and annoying at having to re-tune guitar's as I don't have enough to go around.

What tuning(s) has really 'unlocked' the guitar for you in either playing style or methodology.

Has anyone stumbled across any particular tunings that aren't particularly known or recognised?

Happy Sunday morning everyone............ ;-)
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DADGAD has always been my personal favourite, great for noodling around with Irish melodies.
 
Wanted to try a budget electric guitar after hearing good things about some, and plumped for the Kramer striker with a floyd rose. Can't spend a fortune on a guitar nowadays but call it a midlife crisis, or apparently the male menopause is a thing now. Quite impressive considering it costs just over two hundred, my birthday present to myself and first guitar I've bought in over a decade. Was also looking at the budget Ibanez ones but the Kramer spoke to me.

Am now trying to remember some of Vito Bratta's solos now that I've been bitten by the 80s hair metal bug again. My fingers remember some of the patterns but the speed.... Can't get it just yet.
 
bluetonium said:
Wanted to try a budget electric guitar after hearing good things about some, and plumped for the Kramer striker with a floyd rose. Can't spend a fortune on a guitar nowadays but call it a midlife crisis, or apparently the male menopause is a thing now. Quite impressive considering it costs just over two hundred, my birthday present to myself and first guitar I've bought in over a decade. Was also looking at the budget Ibanez ones but the Kramer spoke to me.

Am now trying to remember some of Vito Bratta's solos now that I've been bitten by the 80s hair metal bug again. My fingers remember some of the patterns but the speed.... Can't get it just yet.
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Cort make some cracking budget guitars and I'm hearing Harley Bentons are not too shabby for the price. I own a Cort Les Paul that plays, looks, and sounds great. If Cort guitars are good enough for John Mitchell they're good enough for me.
Here's him playing one..
Wouldn't swap for my PRS though....;o)
 
aguero93:20 said:
DADGAD has always been my personal favourite, great for noodling around with Irish melodies.
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Currently noodling with the 'Keef' open G and D A E G# B E (who the fuck came up with that?) for Crest of a wave (anyone unfamiliar with this particular number, please give it a listen but no no I can't play it like he does )..........
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Currently exploring a few different tunings which is both semi-exhilerating and annoying at having to re-tune guitar's as I don't have enough to go around.

What tuning(s) has really 'unlocked' the guitar for you in either playing style or methodology.

Has anyone stumbled across any particular tunings that aren't particularly known or recognised?

Happy Sunday morning everyone............ ;-)
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DADF#BE was one I came across learning Crosses by Jose Gonzalez. He mixes up his tuning a lot in his songs so he can play the bassline and arpeggios and almost make it sound as though more than one instrument is playing. Good fun messing around with tuning but agree it's painful the next time you pick up and want to play something in the standard tuning! I'm pretty sure he tunes the G string up to an A as well but without the drop D on certain songs.
 
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