I'm familiar with open tunings for slide, but does anyone have any good tips on any other interesting alternate tunings for guitar? Anything folky / eastern sounding would give me an interesting new direction to try. :)
From low to high: DADGAD is a fun one to try. Use a scale only on the G string while strumming the other strings for a middle eastern kind of sound. Go to http://www.well.com/~wellvis/tuning.html (http://www.well.com/~wellvis/tuning.html) for lots of lap steel tunings that can be used in folk/Hawaiian, etc.
Quote from: Farmjazz on October 22, 2008, 07:59:04 AMFrom low to high: DADGAD is a fun one to try. Use a scale only on the G string while strumming the other strings for a middle eastern kind of sound. Go to http://www.well.com/~wellvis/tuning.html (http://www.well.com/~wellvis/tuning.html) for lots of lap steel tunings that can be used in folk/Hawaiian, etc.
Sounds good. Will give it a spin! Thanks!
Oh man DADGAD is the king for folk style open tunings. Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, Jimmy Page (Black mountain slide)... It can give you middle-eastern or Celtic sounding. You get a drone sound with melody on top kind of sound. I am not to good with it but it is real fun to play around with.
I'm going to re-tune my spare guitar and see what happens. That definitely sounds like the thing I'm after. I'm hoping it will give me some new sound / chord options, and a few fresh ideas. Thanks guys!