Alternate Tunings

[Greeny]

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. 

[Farmjazz]

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 for lots of lap steel tunings that can be used in folk/Hawaiian, etc.

[Greeny]

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 for lots of lap steel tunings that can be used in folk/Hawaiian, etc.

Sounds good. Will give it a spin! Thanks!

[Bluesberry]

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.

[Greeny]

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!