A cool new tuning (I think)

[Shredderific]

I was sitting in my room last night, and I thought of a tuning that would be fun to play with after watching Steve Vai on the G3 Denver DVD.

Tune it like this- I call it the open E minor tuning. (If it's not already a tuning)

D-A-D-F-A-D

You tune every string down 1 whole step except open A string, and open D.

If you try this tuning, mess around with some natural harmonics, they sound really cool............ :p

[diron]

Called Open D (only F would be an F#)

It's like Mr. Garcia said, "The music we hear is our own"

Good job "discovering" that tuning on your own, reminds me of the time I thought I had invented hammer-ons!! (Don't laugh, I was a newbie and ignorant :o)

Open D definitely makes for some fun, beautiful sh!t :D

[cyberfret]

D F and A make a Dm chord

--Shawn

[Shredderific]

Open D huh, okay.........

[diron]

Come up with any songs in that tuning?

[Super><Sonny]

Good job "discovering" that tuning on your own, reminds me of the time I thought I had invented hammer-ons!! (Don't laugh, I was a newbie and ignorant :o)


Haha dude before I learned about pinch harmonics, I was messing around and I discovered artificial harmonics, and I thought I invented them, so I called them son-anomics or sonnynomics. :D

[Hawk]

D F and A make a Dm chord

--Shawn

Damn, you beat me.

If you wanted to have a really unique tuning, you could put on strings that would tune an octave too high or low, I tried that once out of need.

[woodsplice]

Haha dude before I learned about pinch harmonics, I was messing around and I discovered artificial harmonics, and I thought I invented them, so I called them son-anomics or sonnynomics. :D

hahahaha, reminds me of how i thought i found a special spot on the string above the pickups which creates a "cool" sound when played like natural harmonics, which much later i found to my disappointment was known as the harmonic on the 24th fret

[woodsplice]

oh! and also before i knew there was a person called vai, and a guitar called the JEM, i thought it would super cool to have a handle in your guitar to carry it around.(although vai doesn't use it carry :>). i was sooo disappointed when i saw the JEM......but its a great guitar nonetheless

[sum1]

i thought i invented metal at one point.. who knew it started in the 60s!