Grant Toupe Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 For the last year or so I've been giving my six string (Pedulla MVP6) a break and tuning my four string (Pedulla Series II) BEGC - two low, two high. It was just an experiment at first but found it really suited my style of writing songs as well. It's a six string with the two middle strings missing basically - makes for some wonderfully easy chords as well as giving you a different range to write with Anyone else tried it or and other strange tunings? Samples of my stuff on [url="http://www.myspace.com/toupe"]http://www.myspace.com/toupe[/url] if you're interested in hearing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARGH Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 The weirdest one I tried during my school days was D-A-D-Dsharp. Ive had a fretless tuned to 5ths (CGDA) to try and extend the range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alun Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 I'll have to try that - sounds wonderfully bizarre. At the moment, my tunings are quite reserved. Apart from standard, I mainly dabble with the B string on my six string - CEADGC and AEADGC but have written solo pieces in CEACGC and AEACGA. Have tried GCGDAD but didn't really come up with anything that exciting. Cheers, Alun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Toupe Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 [quote name='Alun' post='41254' date='Aug 4 2007, 01:23 PM']I'll have to try that - sounds wonderfully bizarre. At the moment, my tunings are quite reserved. Apart from standard, I mainly dabble with the B string on my six string - CEADGC and AEADGC but have written solo pieces in CEACGC and AEACGA. Have tried GCGDAD but didn't really come up with anything that exciting. Cheers, Alun[/quote] Wow - not sure my head would get around those tunings fast enough for onstage - tend to improvise quite a lot and combined with singing i try to make life easy on myself with comfy tunings. The BEGC thing works because i'm used to a BEADGC six string. Will have to try some of those out though - just for a giggle at least. Can't be doing with retuning on stage...that's one of my pet peeves in a band situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARGH Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 [quote name='Alun' post='41254' date='Aug 4 2007, 01:23 PM']I'll have to try that - sounds wonderfully bizarre. At the moment, my tunings are quite reserved. Apart from standard, I mainly dabble with the B string on my six string - CEADGC and AEADGC but have written solo pieces in CEACGC and AEACGA. Have tried GCGDAD but didn't really come up with anything that exciting. Cheers, Alun[/quote] It was..... Harmonically very weird,quite droney if I recall (if that isnt a word it is now) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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