what's your guitar tuned to?
 

I never really cared about tunings before.. so, I've basically been tuning to "whatever sounds cool" for the past few years.. lately, though, I've decided to experiment with other kinds of tunings and I've devised my favorite tuning to play in.. it's tuned half Drop-D tuning (because it's so stupidly fun to play!) and half of what Lee is tuned to in songs like Bull in the Heather, so it's..

D
A
D
G
C
D


any other ridiculous or cool tunings you tune to, post.. i'd also like to know polvo's tunings..

1. Standard
2. #f#f#f#feb
3. dont even know but its fucking dischordant.

Either reg'lar or DADGAD.

right now im in standard. Trying to get better.
But most of the time Im in something else. cant remember any right now.

Standard.

I sometimes like a dropped D tuning (I use several) or open G.

most of my guitars are in standard,

with the exceptions of:

jaguar copy:
C G D G A D

Yamaha Drop 6:
B E A D F# B

Primero Acoustic:
D G D G B D

Lately I've been playing a lot in standard.
If I like to play noisey stuff I just twist the tunings around.

I posted this in another thread:
My latest find is D-A-D-F#-C#-E(L TO H)

Jazzmaster: GBDGDG
Vox: DGBBEE
Others are in standard

Usually standard, but sometimes I like a bit of:

D-A-A-A-A-E

Standard. Extremely used to it and know how to play that out of tune if I wish to.

E
B
G
D
A
D

Usually standard or tuned down a half step all the way (Smashing Pumpkins tuning), and the Teisco is usually in a SY tuning

I'm in standard now, I used to play in standard C (two whole steps down).
I'm trying to figure a way to play "Do You Believe In Rapture?" without having to restring my guitar.

B F B E G# C B

Basically a seven string tuned like a six string in drop D, but the highest string one step below the second highest

standard
bffd#ac (i'm not crazy about this one)
c#ecefd

or the monosodic tuning:

ead(fucked up)(fucked up)(fucked up); basically it's standard tuning with the top three strings tuned randomly

Strat: Mostly standard, sometimes CGDGCD
Les Paul '76: C F# A# D# G C
Tele: D A D G B E

CCEBGD

Standard.

I've messed with alot of tunings over the years but these days I prefer to use standard tuning. It's more challenging.

broken
a
broken
broked
a
d

Unfortunately I always start out on standard and end up on some out of tune bullshit from that until I find something interesting.

Nothing so interesting recently.

Pretty much standard tuning these days. (Name dropping bit coming up) When I was in the Rhys Chatham 100 Guitars thingy, my guitar was restrung with each string being (i think) a .26, and each string was tuned to A. Not a new concept, of course, but certainly novel.

i am going to tune mine today to F#F#F#F#C#F

...don't you think you're overdoing it with that C?

sorry actually its a C#

Indeed it is. Apologies.

prob an out of tune standard!

Currently my folk guitar is in BEBEBE as in Nick Drake's From the morning (I love that song but it's hard to play...). I also like the CGCFGE of Place to be (much easier to play).

didn't know you were in the rhys chatham thing, that rules!

Strat: standard
ovation: i twisted the strings till i like the sound
kay: open e
rogue: CGDGCD
ibenaz: open e tuned down two steps
random electric acoustic: ACCGG#C

I've just learnt to play "Wonderful one" by Page & Plant, the tuning is EEBEBE and it's great.

P.S: the thread should've been in the Non sonic sounds section.

i thought "Non-sonic sounds" was for other bands, though..

whats a tuning?

F#F#F#F#EB is an interesting tuning, I like that full sound you get with sliding around on the F#'s. I want to get one of those baritone acoustic guitars to play round with, I bet you can achieve some interesting sounds on one of those.

You don't understand?

Of the ones not in standard, one is in PCH/Expressway tuning and the other in Low C (I was showing a friend Rain on Tin the other day). I don't know the notes off the top of my head...that's what Mustang is for. :)

my acoustic is in standard and my electric (which I use in my band) is half step down...I don't use a lot of alternate tunings because without the appropriate gauges they don't sound good, and I have just one electric and one acoustic, and I don't want to change strings every time...

However, I found that playing in GGDDGG is really funny

ain't talkin bout beatles songs written 100 years before i was born

I've had one of my guitars tuned in that for a few weeks because I was playing Star Power



Tunings I use:
Standard
CADGBC- 1 song that I wrote a year and a half ago

my two new tunings:
E G# E F# G E
E Bb D F Bb E

these are both based on chords that I use in open tuning. The first one is actually a very normal chord moved up on the strings in standard, if you take away the Es and the G which are the drone notes in standard, it sounds much more normal.