Hi all, I’m trying to create a complete list of the various tunings used for M&S songs. Please feel free to add any I’ve got missing here
Standard: White blank page (capo 2), Below my feet (capo 4), Believe, Hopeless wanderer (capo 5), There will be time, Woman, Monster, Wilder mind, Forever (Garage Version), Tompkins square park, Ghosts that we knew (capo 5), The boxer, Hurt (capo 2), Ditmas (Marcus only, if he plays)
Full step down: Timshel, Wild Heart
Drop D / Double Drop D (Doesn’t really matter as the highest string is rarely played): Whispers in the dark, Delta, The Wolf
Open D (DADF#AD): The cave (capo 2), Roll away your stone (capo 2), Awake my soul (pre-2010) Not with haste (capo 2), Lovers eyes, Holland Road, Home, Babel, Learn me right
Open Dm (DADFAD): I Gave You All, Broken crown, Thistle and weeds
Open C6 (CACGCE): Little lion man (capo 5), Sigh no more, Awake my soul (capo 2, used post-2010), I will wait (capo 1 studio, no capo live), Guiding light (capo 7 studio, capo 5 live), Ditmas (Winston), Snake eyes
One of the problems with learning how to play Wilco songs is that Jeff seems to use a lot of weird tunings; he also uses a capo quite a bit, which makes it harder to keep track of these tunings. Is there a database or list that collects the tunings for these songs? Any information helps. Thanks!
This is the whole list. Please leave songs in the comments. Any tuning without a song next to it means we need to find one. There’s a few where I kinda cheated and put 7 string songs so if you have better suggestions for any with songs next to them already, leave them down below as well! Also I have a few songs in totally left field tunings that didn’t fit anywhere, so if you know any songs like that suggest them too!
Standard And Steps Down
- Megadeth: Rust In Peace (Standard)
- Slayer: Raining Blood (D#G#C#F#A#D#)
- Ghost B.C.: Square Hammer (DGCFAD)
- Black Sabbath: Into The Void (C#F#BEG#C#)
- BABYMETAL: Gimme Chocolate! (CFA#D#GC)
- Amon Amarth: War Of The Gods (BEADF#B)
- Dream Theater: Panic Attack (A#D#G#C#FA#)
- Taproot: Poem (ADGCEA)
- Cannibal Corpse: Scourge Of Iron (G#C#F#BD#G#)
- (GCFA#DG)
- Batushka: Yekteniya 1 (F#BEAC#F#)
- (FA#D#G#CF)
- Torsofuck: Raped By Elephants (Octave Down)
Steps Up
- Vektor: Tetrastructural Minds (FA#D#G#CF)
- Oasis: Wonderwall (F#BEAC#F#)
- Fleetwood Mac: Landslide (GCFA#DG)
- The Guess Who: No Sugar Tonight Original Version (G#C#F#BD#G#)
- Damien Rice: Delicate (ADGCEA)
- Damien Rice: Cannonball (A#D#G#C#FA#)
- The Beatles: Here Comes The Sun (BEADF#B)
Drop Tunings
- Lamb Of God: Walk With Me In Hell (DADGBE)
- System Of A Down: B.Y.O.B. (C#G#C#F#A#D#)
- Breaking Benjamin: Angels Fall (CGCFAD)
- Bring Me The Horizon: Pray For Plagues (BF#BEG#C#)
- The Ghost Inside: Chrono (A#FA#D#GC)
- Slipknot: Psychosocial (AEADF#B)
- Mastodon: Crack The Skye (AGCFAD)
- The Acacia Strain: See You Next Tuesday (G#D#G#C#FA#)
- Emmure: Protoman (GDGCEA)
- Thornhill: Reptile (F#C#F#BD#G#)
- Northlane: Quantum Flux (FCFA#DG)
- Hacktivist: Elevate (EBEAC#F#)
- (D#A#D#G#CF)
Double Drop Tunings
- Led Zeppelin: Going To California (DADGBD)
- Puddle Of Mudd: Drift And Die (C#G#C#F#A#C#)
- Neil Young: Don’t Let It Bring You Down (CGCFAC)
- (BF#BEG#B)
- (A#FA#D#GA#)
- (AEADF#A)
- (AGCFAC)
- (G#D#G#C#FG#)
- (GDGCEG)
- (F#C#F#BD#F#)
- (FCFA#DF)
- (EBEAC#E)
- (D#A#D#G#CD#)
Open Tunings
- (EAEAC#E)
- (BF#BF#BD#)
- (CGCGCE)
- (DADF#AD)
- (EBEG#BE)
- (FACFCF)
- (F#A#C#F#C#F#)
- (DGDGBD)
Cross-Note Tunings
- (EAEACE)
- (EACEAE)
- (CGCGCD#)
- (DADFAD)
- (EBEGBE)
- (FG#CFCF)
- (FCFG#CF)
- (DGDGA#D)
Modal Tunings
- (EABEAE)
- (EADEAE)
- (CACGCE)
- (CGCGCD)
- (CGCGCF)
- (CGDGCD)
- (DADEAD)
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I am a beginning guitar student coming from violin. I would like to better understand the tuning of the six strings of the guitar; why EADGBE ended up being the standard. I can guess that the perfect fourths between all but the G and B strings accommodates the average adult hand size better than a perfect fifth used on violin (GDAE), but why is the pattern not adopted on all six strings? Is the third at the G-B crossing, along with the two octave repetition of the high E above the low sixth string used to make guitar harmony most convenient given the constraints of the human hand, and/or is the E repetition facilitating accompaniment of a high string melody on the low strings? …or is it something completely different? How would someone coming from a four-stringed perfect fifth-tuned instrument (violin and I believe mandolin?) leverage their background when transitioning to the the guitar.
A friend of mine had a guy look at one of his guitars and the guy told him that his neck was warped and would need to be fixed. My friend changed tunings pretty often (every day pretty much) and the guy claims that is what caused the warping to the neck. I've researched online and I haven't been able to find anything to back it up. I personally don't believe it but I rarely change tunings just to stay safe. Does that really do any damage to the neck, or are we just being scared for nothing?
I'm guessing that a good portion of people here also play guitar and sharing some knowledge might be useful. There's quite some infos online about Fahey's pieces but other artists aren't really covered.
Open tunings can be a pain in the ass when trying to learn new songs. Being able to sort by tuning might be useful to group songs together so that when you get comfortable with a certain tuning you can see what other songs can be played in it.
Another infos might include tabs etc.
When you're writing your opinion on a great tuning, could you justify your opinion?
Pleasure.
some dude is obsessed.
I have two guitar tracks, both recorded one after another. Later I realized my guitar was in-tune with itself (each string in-tune with the others) but not in-tune truly (it was all a semi-tone or two flat).
I want to add more tracks to this project and therefore have to "mis-tune" my guitar again. I'm simply not talented enough to replay the previous parts again which sounded great but were out of true tune.
Is there a way to figure out what my Low-string was tuned to (frequency) and then use ReaTune to dial in my other strings?
I know true tuning considers an A to be 441hz (I think) and everything is relative/calibrated to that reference point. So I guess I need to figure out what my reference point needs to be?
I hope this is makes sense.
Love that riff I need to learn it
Hi, I got an electric guitar just under a week ago and I've had a few problems. I use a tuner which tells me the closest note to what I'm playing, so I tuned my guitar to standard which sounds fine. However, when playing any note on a fret, so any note other than E, B, G, D, A, E, it firstly sounds out of tune, but also the tuner attached to my guitar says the string needs to be tuned up or down to hit the note (e.g. playing a C on the A string, then tuner says that I need to tune the string up a bit to hit the note even though the A is perfectly in tune). Any help is thanked!
Someone told me about DADGAD but I tuned it to BAGDAD and everything I play sounds middle-eastern
I classified the whole DT discography on Spotify playlists by guitar tuning for myself, since I change tuning quite frequently I go there and see what DT can I play in the tuning I'm currently in. This gives some interesting insight on their usage of tunings, so if you want to see more detailed data let me know. I just thought this might be interesting.
Feel free to ask about the specific songs or anything you want to know on the spot. (Not including the new singles)
6 STRING: 107 songs
E Standard: 89 songs
Drop D: 4 songs
Eb Standard: 2 songs
D Standard: 7 songs
C standard: 5 songs
7 STRING: 43 songs
B Standard: 40 songs
Drop A: 1 song
A Standard: 2 songs
BARITONE: 6 songs
Bb Standard: 4 songs
A Standard: 2 songs
This video popped up on my news feed today. I think it's an excellent cover with some cool guitar flourishes at the end. She seems to be playing in an alternate/open tuning. I have often considered this as one of my top "wish I could play that" songs. Anyone have info on the tuning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmw-EWVmolc
I realize that covers are against the rules, but I couldn't locate an "official covers thread" and this video gave me insight into potentially learning to play one of my favorite Dylan tunes.
