Guitarists: Which is your favourite tuning?

[Fuzzz]

I dunno if there are a lot of people who play the guitar around here, but if there are, which is your favourite guitar tuning.

Mine's "Dropped D" btw, cause I love the sound when you slide in a dropped tuning.

 

[sysyphus]

EADG. I play bass. Sometimes I drop to D (or lower if I'm playing Black Sabbath).

 

[Fuzzz]

EADG. I play bass. Sometimes I drop to D (or lower if I'm playing Black Sabbath).

I used to tune my guitar down 2 full steps (CFG#D#GC) a lot to get the Kyuss effect. When I played the bass, I only really liked the standard tuning, but only bassed for about a year or so.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I prefer standard myself. Although I have been known to dabble with dropped d

 

[Mise]

I can't stand dropped D myself...

I like to play with all strings tuned down half a step. It suits my "vocal range"...

 

[Nylan]

I like dropped D quite a bit, although standard does have it's advantages.

The tone of dropped and the speed at which you can play the lower chords, as well as the ability to play some uncommon ones, is what's hooked me.

 

[Left]

Open G tuning, DGDGBD.

I like to play slide so open tunings make it a lot easier.

EDIT:

slide guitar open E.

What up

 

[fishlore]

I play with standard tuning most of the time. I have an old, crappy acoustic I keep in open E because I'm REALLY into the blues and play the slide guitar with it.

 

[nonconformist]

Standard tuning, I only go in dropped D when I'm faffing around with some RAtM.

 

[Ville]

I usually use standard BEADGBE

My favourite open tunings are
Open Dm ADADFAD
and
Open C GCGCGCE

And yes, that's 7-strings

 

[Nylan]

And yes, that's 7-strings

You make me feel poor...

 

[nonconformist]

Does this include the use of a capo, becaus eI clip on my capo wherever I need to/I want.

 

[Ville]

You make me feel poor...

I'm sorry if I sounded like I'm bragging about having a 7-string guitar. Maybe should have used instead of ...

 

[BobTheTerrible]

I play lots of metal, but I normally keep the guitar in standard.

 

[Harbringer]

I play in any tuning that im told to but i ussually keep in standard becuase if all else fails, fifteen years of playing can ussually convert on thespot

 

[taper]

GRYBO. I only play Guitar Hero.

 

[Harbringer]

Does this include the use of a capo, becaus eI clip on my capo wherever I need to/I want.

that doesnt change the tuning of the strings.......

 

[Che Guava]

The Neil Young 'double d': DADGBd

Also, the great soundgarden standard: CGCGGe

 

[emzie]

Favourite? CGDGBd

variation of one of Pavement's tunings (CGDGBB)

 

[Left]

The Neil Young 'double d': DADGBd

Also, the great soundgarden standard: CGCGGe

DDDDdd

Lou Reed Ostrich tuning. I'd use it if I was cool.