Who here uses an open tuning?

[Wings of Obsidian]

Mark Tremonti originally got me hooked by saying that he always experiments with all sorts of open tuning on his instruments whenever a bout of "writer's block" comes around. Same with Andy McKee and Mike Dawes.

For me, I use Open-C (Devin Townsend tuning on a six) or add the low-G (on a seven). On my acoustic, I tune to Open-C or Open-Dsus. (I like Dsus better than plain ol' D for some reason. Has more resonance.)

 

[JEngelking]

I'm clearly boring in that I only use Open C, no extra extensions for me!

No worries man, we're in the same boat then P.S. I like the Mastodon avatar, wearing one of their shirts right now.

Open B Minor, B F# B F# B D
Probably the perfect tuning for drop tuned riffing and big, lush chord progressions

One more vote to the Open B tuning, the anticipation grows...

Mine is in Csus4/9 according to Tuxguitar. CGDFA#D to be exact.

That's a cool take on open tuning. Also yay for tuxguitar

John from Monuments exclusively uses open tunings. Not sure what the actual name of it is but he uses

G#-F-A#-D#-F-A#-D#
A#-F-A#-D#-F-A#-D#
F-A#-F-A#-D#-F-A#-D#

Here's his profile here and you an get in touch with him via formspring pretty easily.

Sevenstring.org - View Profile: John_Strychnine

Sweet, thanks for the tip dude Didn't actually know he used open tunings that frequently, just that him and Acle used a couple during their time in Fellsilent, IIRC.

My tuning is BEADGBE, so I guess I tune to open G6/9.

Can't go wrong with standard seven tuning

Mark Tremonti originally got me hooked by saying that h always experience nuts with all sorts of open tuning on his instruments whenever a bout of writers block comes around. Sme with Andy McKee and Mike Dawes.

For me, I use Open-C (Devin Townsend tuning on a six) or add the low-G (on a seven). On my acoustic, I tune to Open-C or Open-Dsus. (I like Dsus better than plain ol' D for some reason. Has more resonance.)

Yep, promises of musical inspiration were the reason I tried the alternate tuning too. And seems like a common consensus is that such tuning makes playing more lush.

 

[kamello]

Open D add9

I use it for my acoustic, I can be playing for hours with it, nothing extremely creative but everything sounds beautiful on that tuning

 

[JEngelking]

Open D add9

I use it for my acoustic, I can be playing for hours with it, nothing extremely creative but everything sounds beautiful on that tuning

That's a cool one The open tunings really are pretty.

In other news, I just broke the high E on my six tuning down, so that's put an end to my open tuned playing until I get a new set of strings/get my new guitar.

 

[Metal_Webb]

John from Monuments exclusively uses open tunings. Not sure what the actual name of it is but he uses

F-A#-F-A#-D#-F-A#-D#

It depends if you have a low F or Eb, but it's Open Bbsus4/F OR Ebsus2/F

 

[Zoosadist]

D-A-D-F-A-E

 

[JEngelking]

D-A-D-F-A-E

Cool, open Dm9?