Best tunings for slide?

Popsyche · 01-03-2008, 01:22 PM

I am tuning one of my 6 stringers to an open E for some slide work. Any recommendations on a tuning?

Thanks in advance!

Drew · 01-03-2008, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Popsyche

I am tuning one of my 6 stingers to an open E for some slide work. Any recommendations on a tuning?

Thanks in advance!

seems like you've already chosen one, you old geezer.

Open G is the one I've tried the intuitively clicked the most for me - it just begs foor bluesy slide riffing - but honestly I play mostly in standard since I know it best.

Popsyche · 01-03-2008, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew

seems like you've already chosen one, you old geezer.

Open G is the one I've tried the intuitively clicked the most for me - it just begs foor bluesy slide riffing - but honestly I play mostly in standard since I know it best.

I've done the EBEG#BE thing before. I was looking for a better option.

Apophis · 01-03-2008, 02:11 PM

I think the best are open tunings, whatever you like, you can experiment.

01-03-2008, 02:11 PM

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Popsyche · 01-03-2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Desecrated

DADFAD

I that the "brown sugar" tuning?

Drew · 01-03-2008, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Popsyche

I've done the EBEG#BE thing before. I was looking for a better option.

Check your tenses again, bro - you wrote it in present tense, as in you're currently in the process of tuning a 6 to open-E. If that were really the case, it would seem a bit belated to ask for recommendations.

Just busting your balls.

For acoustics I like tuning down, so I usually go to open-D (same tuning a step down) or open G. On the right guitar that could sound pretty huge too, so it's worth a try.

But personally I feel like it's a shame to waste all the fretboard knowledge I have in standard, so I've been just trying to get a little better at muting so I can play slide comfortably in standard. I still suck, but I at least improvise more fluidly.

Popsyche · 01-03-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew

Check your tenses again, bro - you wrote it in present tense, as in you're currently in the process of tuning a 6 to open-E. If that were really the case, it would seem a bit belated to ask for recommendations.

Just busting your balls.

For acoustics I like tuning down, so I usually go to open-D (same tuning a step down) or open G. On the right guitar that could sound pretty huge too, so it's worth a try.

But personally I feel like it's a shame to waste all the fretboard knowledge I have in standard, so I've been just trying to get a little better at muting so I can play slide comfortably in standard. I still suck, but I at least improvise more fluidly.

Pardon my in-tense anomalies. I meant that I am currently searching for a better tuning.

I am using a JEM777DY for this with the tremol-no installed. I need to for sliding big ole' country sounding chords during the lyrics, and then fill in leads. I need to find a tuning that does both well.

Drew · 01-03-2008, 03:41 PM

Just busting your balls.

Try open G, then. I wanna say the Stones did a lot with it, and you can certainly do the hit on I-IV bit on the three middle strings...

Popsyche · 01-03-2008, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew

Just busting your balls.

Try open G, then. I wanna say the Stones did a lot with it, and you can certainly do the hit on I-IV bit on the three middle strings...

Do you mean GBDGBG?

Also, I went with a 10-46 string set on this as well.

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