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Well, hung out with a guy that needs a second guitarist for his band and wanted to see exactly what I was made of. According to him..this guy that's in an alleged amount of 9 bands or so..I'm one of the best guitarists he's seen around here. That was flattering. And bullshit. Problem is, his band wants me tuned in Drop B. I can't compose in drop tunings worth shit, and I'm not willing to tune any of my own guitars that low. I'm hoping they'll just tune up to standard E. It'd be nice to be in a fully formed band.

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Offer to write your own parts in your own tuning. Or just take the plunge and experiment... who knows? Don't expect a fully formed band to change their tuning for you, though... writing for a low tuning like that is a different style of playing, and I doubt the riffs would translate. Personally I love low tunings, but they don't appeal to quite a few of my friends. I just started a project with a guitar tuned in D and a baritone tuned in A, and I'm getting some pretty cool sounds.

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I mean that I can't just tune one of my guitars that low. Certainly not one with a floating bridge in it. The guitars I have access to that would be most suitable for this are my dad's. He just set them all up perfectly, so he wouldn't appreciate me fucking with them that much. Otherwise I'd already be part of the band. I'm pretty sure I'll be doing all the guitar composing. The other guitarist doesn't know what the everliving fuck he's doing, but he has potential. He's never learned any scales or anything, he just fucks around all day. So, his muscle memory knows where the strings and frets are. He just has to have some organization and needs to stop being so tone deaf.

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That other guitarist sounds a little like me of late. My schedule this year has meant I had to quit with the guitar lessons (which I still sorely need my technique is better but still fucking awful). I'm not putting in as much practice time as I should either (as in I haven't picked up my guitar for about two weeks) so I can only assume things have gotten even worse.

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I mean that I can't just tune one of my guitars that low. Certainly not one with a floating bridge in it. The guitars I have access to that would be most suitable for this are my dad's. He just set them all up perfectly, so he wouldn't appreciate me fucking with them that much. Otherwise I'd already be part of the band. I'm pretty sure I'll be doing all the guitar composing. The other guitarist doesn't know what the everliving fuck he's doing, but he has potential. He's never learned any scales or anything, he just fucks around all day. So, his muscle memory knows where the strings and frets are. He just has to have some organization and needs to stop being so tone deaf.
Hmm. I've come to prefer writing in standard (mostly C standard) over the past couple of years, but before that I played in drop exclusively, since I was 14 or 15. I understand the technical problems you'd have with a floating bridge. You'll be able to get a normal scale-length fixed bridge guitar to have decent intonation that low, with the right strings - it won't be perfect, but it'll be ok. The real issue, though, is whether this guy is worth working with. If he's not that good, will he be able to keep up? Are you just pretty much looking to get your feet wet and play with anybody, for the time being? I think you should go for it, regardless, it's better than being stuck practicing by yourself all day. Good luck!
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Alabaster what is the difference in drop. D to drop c. And drop a tunings
Drop D is a standard-tuned guitar with the lowest string tuned from E down to D, which creates a perfect fifth interval between the lowest two strings, which means you can do a power chord with one finger. The strings from low to high go DADGBE. With drop C, all the patterns and relationships are the same, but tuned down another whole step, and drop A is one and a half steps below that. But it's all the same pattern. A "drop" tuning always has that perfect fifth on the bottom. Some people call any tuning below standard EADGBE a "drop" tuning, but that's wrong. "Standard" tuning for my baritone guitar is a fourth below a normal guitar, so it would go BEADF#B... basically "B standard". Although I have it tuned in A standard, right now. Does that make sense?
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Drop tuning suggests dropping the lowest string two steps below what the standard tuning would be for the rest of the strings, the purpose being that you can play fifth with octave chords (power chords) by barring the lowest 3 strings. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Just to be a pedantic nerd, it's two half steps - in other words, one whole step.
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Hmm. I've come to prefer writing in standard (mostly C standard) over the past couple of years' date=' but before that I played in drop exclusively, since I was 14 or 15. I understand the technical problems you'd have with a floating bridge. You'll be able to get a normal scale-length fixed bridge guitar to have decent intonation that low, with the right strings - it won't be perfect, but it'll be ok. The real issue, though, is whether this guy is worth working with. If he's not that good, will he be able to keep up? Are you just pretty much looking to get your feet wet and play with anybody, for the time being? I think you should go for it, regardless, it's better than being stuck practicing by yourself all day. Good luck![/quote'] I mean, the guy has all kinds of determination and spends all of his time on music. He's worth my time no matter what. He's an amazing vocalist too. I can compose easier, heavier rhythm riffs for him to do while he's vocalizing. He has no problem being a mock Hetfield. This guy has been my buddy for a while, so it'd be cool to be in a band with him instead of a bunch of random fuckheads. I do really need to be in my first fully formed band already, and this is a good opportunity. I'm just going to try not to be Mustaine and dictate everything to what I think sounds perfect. Though so far, it's kinda fitting the bill for a Mustaine moment. I was warming up when the guy said for sure that he wanted me to be the other guitarist, then we went to his place, made a makeshift smoking instrument, and remained stoned for the next 12 hours or so whilst watching live shows and fucking around on guitar. When I was baked and sitting next to him though, I had this feeling that I was in the presence of like.. a young legend. Like a legend before he's a legend. Some sixth sense shit right there.
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