Songs in Eb to learn...

[jam3v]

I recently had to tune down my (only) guitar to Eb for gigging.

I was re-learning / cleaning up Metropolis Pt. 1 before this, but I need to put that on pause.

What are some good songs / bands in Eb other than Van Halen and the rest of the 80's hair metal stuff?

 

[toiletstand]

old =w=eezer

 

[awesomeaustin]

Iced Earth

 

[Pooluke41]

Cannibal Corpse
Yngwie
Stream of consciousness (Dream Theater)
Some Deftones.
Old Nevermore (Dropped Eb to C#)
Iced Earth
Katatonia (Epic Band)
Morbid Angel
Psycroptic (Dropped Eb to C#)
Evile
Testament
The Haunted

 

[Lagtastic]

Depends on what type(s) of metal you play. If you are looking to improve your rhythm chops, learn some Iced Earth. Also, the Rusty Cooley/Outworld stuff is all in Eb tuning.


Beyond that, just get BestPractice. It's a free application to change the pitch/speed of any MP3 file. If you use your computer as a practice tool, you need BestPractice. Just drop the pitch of any song in standard tuning by 1/2 step, and play along.

 

[MFB]

Austin's right on the money, learn pretty much every Iced Earth song and make that right wrist a fucking machine gun sounding motherfucker when it comes to triplets/gallops.

 

[BucketheadRules]

+1 on Best Practice. Fucking ace.

 

[elrrek]

Slayer!!!!
Also, very many Black Sabbath songs post-"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" are all in Eb.

 

[jam3v]

Depends on what type(s) of metal you play. If you are looking to improve your rhythm chops, learn some Iced Earth. Also, the Rusty Cooley/Outworld stuff is all in Eb tuning.


Beyond that, just get BestPractice. It's a free application to change the pitch/speed of any MP3 file. If you use your computer as a practice tool, you need BestPractice. Just drop the pitch of any song in standard tuning by 1/2 step, and play along.

Sweet! I'll just continue learning what I want to learn and tune accordingly.

I had a WinAmp plugin that changed pitch, but it wasn't accurate to actually defining a tuning.

Thanks!

 

[aWoodenShip]

Any Protest the Hero song from Fortress onward.

 

[jam3v]

I loved Iced Earth's album with the Spawn cover back in the day, so I'll look at that too!

 

[BucketheadRules]

"other than Van Halen".

NO! BAD! Van Halen is all you need.

Not just in Eb, just ever.

 

[Riffer]

Some off the top of my head.....

Slayer -Almsot their whole catalog except newer stuff.
Alice in Chains - Man in the box, Check my brain
Sweet Child O Mine
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on parade
As I lay Dying - Within Destruction

 

[budda]

Protest the Hero - Scurrilous

 

[TRENCHLORD]

Slayer was the reason I first ditched those little 9-42s in standard way back in the South Of Heaven days. Thanks Slayer for inspiring me to begin "manning up" (or actually manning down) (lol).

 

[infernalservice]

Lots of Pantera is in e flat too. Mouth for war, this love, shedding skin, etc.

 

[rew]

red seas fire! the recovery is great fun

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

What's wrong with you guys!!!




oh wait fuck you said Eb not Bb

 

[Andromalia]

Half of the bay area thrash is in Eb, including 95% of metallica, Slayer, Testament etc. Add older Judas Priest and you have a healthy repertoire of songs to work with.

 

[ImBCRichBitch]

Alice In Chains, Van Halen, Snuff- Slipknot, Some Seether is down, and then you have some bands that perform songs in standard in Eb when they do covers.