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Re: Alternate Guitar Tunings (OT)
Marc Marshall wrote about his alteration of Sonic Youth's altered tuning
setup:
"I use the following set up low to high.
38-38-28-28-18-18 but for the record
SY uses slightly lighter strings
in 36-36-26-26-17-17"
Thanks for sharing that tuning, Marc. I can't wait to try it out.
I always wondered if it would be okay to use all 38s or equivalent and
then tune the guitar down
so that it wouldn't be bad for the neck.
I always thought it would be really cool to have guitar tuned C C C C C
C, just for the sake of
overtone manipulation only.
Anyone have thoughts on this? would I seriously screw up my strat to
do that?
Additionally, I wanted to try something like C C C C Eb Eb.
In this way you'd have open tuned barr minor chords with a very simple
double bar up one fret for
major chords.
Distortion and Feedback just love simple open tunings.
I even thought if you set the action hi that you could use a normal
slide on the first finger and a pinky slide
on the pinky for moeveable simple diadic chords.
I like the idea of using really heavy gauged strings just for their
resonance value but , again,
am not sure if I"d screw my guitar up attempting it.
I'm just a drummer (frater ritmacorum as Rainer so cleverly puts it)
so I await your collective guitar player wisdom).
There's a ton of young musicians in my town who are fascinated by the
whole noise scene so I'm trying to put on a little mini
noise festival at Meta Music and mostly play guitar into it (with maybe
some Shenai, Zurna and Euphonium).
Towards that end, I just went and checked out the Steve Vai distortion
pedal to possibly add to my
small arsenal of distortion pedals.............it looks really nice
<salivate>.