Fripp's New Standard Tuning

[Me on crack]

Originally Posted by cerebro911

Wasn't there an actual thing called 'new standard tuning' of CFCGBE. Dropping just the bottom three strings? Soundgarden's song 4th of July is in that tuning. Creepy damn song, but eerily beautiful.

I've always wanted to put a guitar into a dulcimer tuning I once played. BBBG or something along those lines...

I dont know about that but Fripp one is from the late 70's

Soinic Youth has wacked tunings like that, they have tunings where ALL strings are one note but in dif octaves!! crazy!!

[cerebro911]

There was a guitarist I met who had his guitar in something called, I believe, Nashville tuning. The bottom three strings (EAD) were the doubling strings from a 12-string and the top three were normal. It let him play the same as his second guitar but sound different. And non-octave intervals took on their own life. I imagine chords were a different kind of animal that way too.

[Me on crack]

Originally Posted by cerebro911

There was a guitarist I met who had his guitar in something called, I believe, Nashville tuning. The bottom three strings (EAD) were the doubling strings from a 12-string and the top three were normal. It let him play the same as his second guitar but sound different. And non-octave intervals took on their own life. I imagine chords were a different kind of animal that way too.

Well that just adding inversions to your playing

[jonny-b-brown]

Originally Posted by cerebro911

There was a guitarist I met who had his guitar in something called, I believe, Nashville tuning. The bottom three strings (EAD) were the doubling strings from a 12-string and the top three were normal. It let him play the same as his second guitar but sound different. And non-octave intervals took on their own life. I imagine chords were a different kind of animal that way too.

There are a bunch of alternate tunings called Nashville tunings, of which that one is the most popular. It's used a lot to thicken up rhythm tracks, David Gilmour used it a lot, Dave Matthews has used it a lot, and almost every bluegrass recording has it mixed in somewhere.

You can really thicken up a rhythm guitar sound by layering a track of standard, baritone, and Nashville tuned guitars playing the same part.

[cerebro911]

Ah, alternate tunings. The 'wierdest' i use are drop-d and E flat (which aren't wierd). One time though I dropped the bottom string to B so I could play Seven Nation Army without an octave down or a baritone guitar. I also learned the real meaning of string buzz and bad idea.

[Doctor J]

After a week of trying to play in this tuning, I have officially given up. My guitar sounds weird, and I don't like it. Bottom line: it makes me not want to play, so its usefulness is negligible.

[cerebro911]

Originally Posted by Doctor J

After a week of trying to play in this tuning, I have officially given up. My guitar sounds weird, and I don't like it. Bottom line: it makes me not want to play, so its usefulness is negligible.

I think at that point it's usefullness goes beyond negligible. When you were plaing in it, did you mantain the traditional shapes and see what came out, or try to adjust around it?

[Doctor J]

Originally Posted by cerebro911

I think at that point it's usefullness goes beyond negligible. When you were plaing in it, did you mantain the traditional shapes and see what came out, or try to adjust around it?

Yes. I did both.

My point about it being "useful" (which I admit is a very vague word to use to describe what I mean) is that because it undermines my desire to play, there's no point in using it or exploring it further.