rahul_mukerji
Well-Known Member
So about a week back I strung my ESP guitar with a set of 11's. Since I used a heavy set I tuned it to a standard D and left it without stretching out the strings.
A couple of days later I picked it up and strummed it. Something odd happened: It wasn't tuned to its standard tuning, but it had detuned to a suspended kind of sound. I kept strumming that open string and really liked what I heard. A couple of minutes later I had created a 2 chord vamp ! This was the first time I was playing with alternate tunings.
I decided to see what tuning my guitar had altered itself to, so I took out my tuner and played each string. Here is the tuning:
6 C
5 G
4 C
3 Eb
2 Bb
1 D
So the bass part of the guitar has a Drop D tuning going on, taken down a step, but the upper half registers an interesting sound. I plugged this into Guitar Pro and it turns out to be a C minor 9 as an open chord ! The chord vamp is Cm9 and Fm9. I soloed using the same guitar, I have no idea what modes / scales I was hitting, but it sounded nice. It was nice to break away from my standard pentatonic boxes and just go into a strange territory, as such,
I decided to record a song with this and keep it simple. The open chords can be heard as the song starts. I kept it simple and a little laid back.
Hope you enjoy it and maybe play around with the tuning if it suits your fancy.
I named it Train Ride from Siliguri, coz it reminds me of train rides in India.
Link to Song. On the website, you'll have to scroll for the song :Myspace OR Website
A couple of days later I picked it up and strummed it. Something odd happened: It wasn't tuned to its standard tuning, but it had detuned to a suspended kind of sound. I kept strumming that open string and really liked what I heard. A couple of minutes later I had created a 2 chord vamp ! This was the first time I was playing with alternate tunings.
I decided to see what tuning my guitar had altered itself to, so I took out my tuner and played each string. Here is the tuning:
6 C
5 G
4 C
3 Eb
2 Bb
1 D
So the bass part of the guitar has a Drop D tuning going on, taken down a step, but the upper half registers an interesting sound. I plugged this into Guitar Pro and it turns out to be a C minor 9 as an open chord ! The chord vamp is Cm9 and Fm9. I soloed using the same guitar, I have no idea what modes / scales I was hitting, but it sounded nice. It was nice to break away from my standard pentatonic boxes and just go into a strange territory, as such,
I decided to record a song with this and keep it simple. The open chords can be heard as the song starts. I kept it simple and a little laid back.
Hope you enjoy it and maybe play around with the tuning if it suits your fancy.
I named it Train Ride from Siliguri, coz it reminds me of train rides in India.
Link to Song. On the website, you'll have to scroll for the song :Myspace OR Website
