Sonic Youth Gossip

Sonic Youth Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/index.php)
-   Non-Sonics (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/forumdisplay.php?f=5)
-   -   what's your guitar tuned to? (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=14112)

Sonic Youth 37 03.14.2008 10:17 PM

Black Tele: Standard
Blue Tele: Ostrich
Les Paul Copy: ACCGG#C

Cantankerous 03.14.2008 11:03 PM

the guitar that i play most often is currently in d flat ostrich tuning
i think the others are mostly in standard though.

Death & the Maiden 03.15.2008 05:01 AM

D ostrich tuning, then stretched all of the strings so they range from C to D.

king_buzzo 03.15.2008 06:46 AM

jazzmaster - standard
strat copy - GGDD and the other two strings are something else which i cant remember right now.

atsonicpark 03.15.2008 08:16 AM

Question: Anyone know a good tuning for acoustic guitar that will mostly be played with a slide? I guess that limits me to open tunings, that's fine, I'm just looking for a sound that's real rednecky.

Danny Himself 03.15.2008 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Question: Anyone know a good tuning for acoustic guitar that will mostly be played with a slide? I guess that limits me to open tunings, that's fine, I'm just looking for a sound that's real rednecky.


Open C# tuning should suffice.

C# G# C# F G# C#

I have a guitar tuned to into that and it sounds mighty bluesy.

atsonicpark 03.15.2008 08:41 AM

Excellentttt.

Jeremy 09.16.2011 01:12 PM

So it's been three years. What new tunings has everybody come up with?

I've played around with:

EBDABE or EBDABD
GAEABE
GBDABB

You can get some really cool stuff in those ones.

~Jeremy~

Diesel 12.17.2011 04:02 AM

Any tuning that resembles a dirty old town in Yemen is fine with me: Dadabe

ann ashtray 12.17.2011 05:26 AM

My Strat is almost always in standard.
VERY seldom drop d
even less seldom random tunings I make up when I wanted to get weirdo noise in yr face trash.

I'm one of those that think standard is a pretty unique tuning these days. Non-standard is pretty standard these days, least round these parts when most are trying to avoid it.

Torn Curtain 12.17.2011 09:45 AM

Yeah open tunings are too often used out of songwriting laziness (as with a lot of them by simply placing your fingers randomly you can end up with some really nice sounding chords, but that's not necessarily enough to make great songs from start to finish).

fugazifan 12.17.2011 10:32 AM

i find that the randomly playing notes works best with standard tuning.

i usually play in standard or open G or C

choc e-Claire 10.06.2019 06:18 PM

I rarely pick up my guitar, but whenever I do it's in drop D (unless I decide to just fuck around with it briefly)

Sheriff Rhys Chatham 10.22.2019 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire
I rarely pick up my guitar, but whenever I do it's in drop D (unless I decide to just fuck around with it briefly)


This. Playing with a Floyd style bridge is a pain in the ass to tune so I hardly even change the strings.
The acoustic is in some weird open D hybrid; DADGAC I think.


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:36 AM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
All content ©2006 Sonic Youth