Cool 8 string tuning?

[Neyoam]

Double Drop D
DADADGBE and rock on!

 

[pwilldabeast14]

yeah well EBEBEF#BE seems so sick right now, so how does soloing stack up with like the E and F# so close together?

 

[pwilldabeast14]

Double Drop D
DADADGBE and rock on!

This!! i would do this but i would imagine ud need atleast an .080 right? so im not sure if my agile 828 could hold that size without me changing something which idont know how to do

 

[Solodini]

My 828 has an 80. I bought it second hand so I don't know if anything was changed to allow that.

 

[pwilldabeast14]

okay so i have a few options:
EAEADGBE got the low end to emulate bass and also normal high end
EBEADGBE less useful for bass but working with drop tuning is cool
EBEBEF#BE just awesome drop tuning looks fun, but id have to adapt the wierd tuning for soloing and chords etc
EADGCFAD great bc same strings of bass, but also would hve to adapt to whole step down

 

[carcass]

guys, do you think that tuning EADGCFAD will be posible on 25,5" scale?

 

[Dayn]

guys, do you think that tuning EADGCFAD will be posible on 25,5" scale?

This set on the bottom 6, plus two plain steels at the top. It gives me the same tension as the strings I use on six-string....

I'd be inclined to say yes, though I've never tried it.

 

[pwilldabeast14]

oh also has anyone tried a EADADGBE?

 

[Explorer]

The only reference to that tuning I found here on SS.org was from Inception7, found here.

I tried drop E, (EADGDGBE) on my Schecter and it was ok when using touchtyle but not great with a pick. That's on a .74

That's not really what is referred to as Drop E incidentally, at least in my understanding. That is a drop-D tuning for six string, with a low A and E added beyond that.

Normally people go for either regular intervals, or for particular notes they want on the open notes. However, I don't know if they use altered guitar tunings, changing the regular intervals of the six upper strings, while retaining a regular pattern at the bottom.

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Just because no one has tried it, though, doesn't mean it won't serve your needs. If you can think of advantages to that tuning for what you want to accomplish, why not? My two main tunings aren't the norm, and I can't imagine doing anything differently at this point.

 

[Dayn]

oh also has anyone tried a EADADGBE?

I call it drop DAE. I've only tried it a half-step down so I could play both SikTh albums plus Meshuggah's 'Nebulous', but I didn't find much use for the dropped D at the time. I prefer drop AE. It makes fingering octaves on those strings easy, and you can use the bottom two strings as a bass. Put 'em together and you can easily fret an octave bass line if you wish.

 

[Hallic]

Maybe monuments tuning?

F, Bb, F, Bb, Eb, F, Bb, Eb
(low to high)

 

[pwilldabeast14]

I call it drop DAE. I've only tried it a half-step down so I could play both SikTh albums plus Meshuggah's 'Nebulous', but I didn't find much use for the dropped D at the time. I prefer drop AE. It makes fingering octaves on those strings easy, and you can use the bottom two strings as a bass. Put 'em together and you can easily fret an octave bass line if you wish.

ohh true, yea ido kinda prefer drop tunings as well, i also thought of one new one thats similar to the danza tuning: EAEAEF#BE cool?

 

[Sponge]

DGDGDGBE

You get a wall of sound and can pull off 3 octaves on one fret. That EBEBEF#BE tuning looks great too!

 

[pwilldabeast14]

DGDGDGBE

You get a wall of sound and can pull off 3 octaves on one fret. That EBEBEF#BE tuning looks great too!

awesomee yea id do something like that but idont think my agile could hold a string for the D? i really wana do the danza tuning but id have to relearn strings

 

[77zark77]

after a few testing, my best tuning is EB+normal tuning(EADGBE)

depends on what you are playing
but that tuning is cool for soloing and power chords on the 3 low strings and the DGB ones

 

[TheDuatAwaits]

E B E B E F# B E

TTDDE uses this. (Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza)

 

[demigod]

This has been mentioned but the drop E is the most practical of the tunings, and mostly retains the 5 semitones between each string. except of course hi B and low E

 

[MetalMike04]

i was thinking C-G-C-G-C-G-C-C# for teh ep1c br00talzzz

 

[pink freud]

Double Drop D
DADADGBE and rock on!

Or do DADADGAD and do the most evil version of Kashmir ever!

 

[Eddie Loves You]

oh also has anyone tried a EADADGBE?

This one. I started using this because of my Wes Lambe guitar/bass hybrid. You can think of the low EAD as the first 3 bass strings and ADGBE as the 5 highest guitar strings. Or as a 6 string in drop D with normal 4ths below it.