Jimby Pearadoople
Member
Talk, talk, and more talk of drop d and a, but what for tuning the low string up?
Like most guitarists, I've toyed around with a myriad of tunings. I wrote a couple songs with my 6th string up to F but it was only recently that I really took the effort to understand it. Now I've given up on 6s and tuning my B to C is awesome.
Yeah, it's not 'Metal' to tune upwards...in some circles. And with playing 7 strings, most of what yer gonna get is other Metal guitarists...but raising the low string a semitone opened up a world of modal playing for me. I've always used the low strings as a pedal tone. Playing in G over a C droning note is...for lack of a better word: beautiful.
Yet, Lydian will do that.
Hope this doesnt sound lame. Memes often do...
Like most guitarists, I've toyed around with a myriad of tunings. I wrote a couple songs with my 6th string up to F but it was only recently that I really took the effort to understand it. Now I've given up on 6s and tuning my B to C is awesome.
Yeah, it's not 'Metal' to tune upwards...in some circles. And with playing 7 strings, most of what yer gonna get is other Metal guitarists...but raising the low string a semitone opened up a world of modal playing for me. I've always used the low strings as a pedal tone. Playing in G over a C droning note is...for lack of a better word: beautiful.
Yet, Lydian will do that.
Hope this doesnt sound lame. Memes often do...
lol
