The 5 WEIRDEST Guitar Tunings
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What *weird* tuning would you put on this list?
I'm from the Philippines and I'm a huge fan I watch your vids since 2017 .....I really want a Floyd rose guitar but I can't buy a guitar because I'm just a kid and I don't have the money
Dexter Cabusora does that answer the question?
Ticket costs 100dollars i can't afford
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Drop l, also is a belcat g10t amp good for thrash
I like using this exotic Middle Eastern tuning I learned: B A G D A D
Hello uncle Ben
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
xD
I know this is a joke but I reckon that'd actually sound pretty cool.
Joseph Tsui howdy howdy!!!!
Kinda mad that the EEEEEE tuning isn't called Dolphin tuning, but whatever.
Just start calling it that anyway. No-one’s going to stop you. Might even catch on.
Omg I get it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh my goodness hahahaha
You can thank Lou Reed for naming it that
I always called it the super octave tuning
only tuning i have is the one that my old squier makes after using whammy bar
lmao
Yes😂
Too real
I feel you 😬😬😬
Nikola Pejin oh you mean Squier standard tuning.
me: thinks of tuning my guitar to one of these
>proceeds to do so
>string breaks
>fretboard snaps and stabs me in the chest
You have to use special sets of strings
@@reubenshiflet1952 Thank you mister obvious..
@@Staminist-MMF-80 just trying to be helpful...
@@reubenshiflet1952 That's the joke
Le Bob sorry bro you’re gonna find annoying people here
another weird tuning: B D D D D D(the tuning that The Goo Goo Dolls used for "Iris")
He mentions that in another video that he talked about at the beginning of this video
Agree
DAEAAE is the tuning i like the most from GGD
yeyeye
Came to the comments to say just that.
If I had a dollar for every PRS you have, I’d be able to buy a PRS.
PRS main intensifies
Lol
Lol
"The reverse tuning"
tuned: E B G D A E
Isn't that just left handed?
@@3eijin nah, left handed tuning remains the same but the guitar is different
I call it "Dick Dale Tuning."
Andrew not quite because of the string gauges the pitches would be different
I just tried it and it's one of my favourite alternate tunings so far
heard about this super crazy rare new tuning called “drop D”, don’t know much about it but it sounds cool, should include that in your next video man
I kinda feel like this is a joke but just In case it isn’t... Drop D is essentially just tuning the low E string Down to a D. It does sound pretty dang cool though!
@MNKeeper2 it *is* a joke
@MNKeeper2 there is no possible scenario in which this wouldn't be a joke
Wow
@Rock God I figured it was a joke. Maybe he’s new to guitar... but if that’s the case why would he be watching a video on advanced tunings😂😂😂
“Out Of Tune” Tuning
It Really Doesn’t Matter, All your strings are slightly Sharp Or Flat
basically Pantera tuning where mainly E is tuned between E flat and E
@FadeToBlackened E half-flat
FadeToBlackened they’re guitar is d standard most of the time tuning is 440 Hz they tuned in 430 Hz
Out of tuning is Larry LaLonde of Primus
@@dakotabunch1463 I think you mean E flat.
0:41Tritone Tuning
2:14 Ethereal Tuning
3:28 CABBAGE
4:20 The Ostrich Tuning
5:32 Diminished(add9) Tuning
E E E E E E tuning should actually have been the 'Sexy (6E) tuning'
Clever
Good one
The weirdest tunning is the one when your little sister messes with all the tuning pegs
Facts
It sounds good af
Alternatively: your girlfriend.
usually that ends up with a missing string
Or your kids, your GF’s kids, or even your 58 year old brother’s 5 year old kid...
I’ve always wanted to use a tuning of only one note, all different octaves, never figured out the way to do it
If u have a clip on tuner you can just tune them all it’s pretty easy but with g b e have to be a higher but still the same note
John Lemon yeah I know how to tune it but I was trying to make each string an octave apart and I couldn’t do it
Braydon Nix I don’t think its physically possible to do that on a guitar just because you can’t get the highest notes without like 1 gauge strings
Soundgarden-Mind Riot
Peik Aschan yeah that’s what I’m saying I don’t think you can range 6 octaves on a standard set, the only way you could is if you tuned down and used thicker strings
Ichika Nito makes every tuning nice
I did a tuning where each ascending string was a perfect fifth above the previous string. It went A E B F# C# G#
Not dissimilar to New Standard, which the goal was all fifths, but the 1st string would end up breaking if you tuned it a fifth above the 2nd. Robert Fripp. Good stuff.
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@Paolo Mancuso And I like Robert Fripp, so full circle.
This sounds sick, I need to try this
*Ichika Nito has entered the chat*
Edit: He just mentioned him lol
His channel has became the one place for weird tunings
*cabbage*
The tuning I learned after leaving my wife and kids: BAD DAD
Just Superunknown in general.. almost every song is in a different tuning
We all could agree, that the pioneers of weird tunings are Sonic Youth.
Yepp
So weird!
100 percent agree
Them and American football
BullHead well, yes I rad that Zappa used altered tuning couple of times. But if comparing Zappa and SY in terms of tunings, I think SY would be a choice of mine.
Soundgarden also used Ostrich tuning for the song "Mind Riot."
SG is famous for their many tunings, BADGBE and DGDGBC are my favorite alternate tuning from them.
BADGBE isn't that weird, but they use it for 3 different songs and get pretty creative.
Drop that B even further down to an A and you got some interesting potential. I have a song in a version of that
Didn't Tool used the BADGBe as well?
Converge and Mastodon use AGCFAD (Which is BADGBE tuned a step down) in many of their songs, I think Cave In also uses it pretty frequently (Albeit tuned only half a step down)
@K _m.A.A.d_139 "Stacked Actors" by Foo Fighters uses AADGBE
@Cannibal Curd Yeah, they used it on Prison Sex. They used BEDGBE on Parabol and Parabola.
What about CGCGGC... Ben Howard used this tuning in his song “Old Pine.” It is a STRENGTHCHORD (or one giant power chord) I believe and it is really beautiful. You could do a lot with it I’m sure!
Wouldn’t it need 3 different notes in order to be a C major chord?
@error #404 yes because only c and g means the tuning is essentially a huge powerchord
Condemned782 STRENGTHCHORD
@error #404 True... I guess it isn’t a C chord as @Condemned782 said it is like a giant power chord😜
Well, that's a huuuuge power chord
Hey man. Just listen to the Soundgarden. They got a lots of alternate tuning and so much fun to play. They used ostrich tuning on 1991 Badmotorfingers album and the song was Mind Riot.
Alternate tuning, odd time signature, Chris Cornell sing and play guitar, rock and roll. What more I can say? They're legendary
Thank God for weird tunings! Otherwise there would be no 'Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin!
Kashmir tho
I know. It is a pain to play though. Not even a hard song. I just don’t want to tune the gutar
Isn't when the levee breaks in a weird tuning?
Or Black Mountain Side
Oh, bro, that Tritone tunning sounds amazing and so heavy.
#6 - Drop ö - the tuning for bröötal Djönts
Drop Æ
this has to be said in a scottish accent i cant imagine it any other way
Bomb drop tuning: Torche
I have recently grown fond of all of these tuning ideas that you wouldn't traditionally think of. When you really find these clever and creative tunings, it sounds so inspiring when you make the most out of them! Awesome here!
A lot of Soundgarden songs are tuned EEBBBB, which allows for songs like “My Wave” to be played simultaneously in Em and B Mixolydian.
Harrison Myers my favourite song The Day I Tried to Live use the same tuning
Been away too long uses that too
Ichika will know about weird tunings
Music is Win: the sounds of hell!
Proceeds to play random prog rock riff.
Yeah
AAAAAA tuning - it... it screams.
Good luck tuning the high e string three steps up
DDDDDD tuning. It stutters
@@karol_w-cc6zq Just tune it 3 and a half steps down
@@joshualessore7652 FFFFFF tuning, it blows
I really enjoyed the use of the slide with the ostrich tuning. A really fascinating wailing.
EEBBBB/EEBBBE the tuning used in many of the best Soundgarden Songs (My Wave, The Day I Tried To Live, Been Away Too Long, etc).
Max EEBBBB for Kim EEBBBE for Chris
My Wave isn’t in standard??!!
The entire Sonic Youth discography is now laughing at your face
Simon Dragani Indeed!
Great video! Your PRS collection is the greatest
You're such an amazing guitarist and you deserve all the success you have earned. Keep kicking ass bro!
describes the definition of ethereal etherealithicly, and then proceeds playing an ethereal tuning in an ethereal manor. how ethereal.
Very ethereal of you to say that
Oh man, you broke Steve Vai's cardinal rule, and I'm pretty sure Thurston Moore has the lone house on that block. All jokes aside, I got tingly watching this one, Tyler, awesome stuff
What is Steve Vai's cardinal rule?
@Stuart Morrow I'm also curious
Me as well
Tune your guitar, to standard tuning, as often as possible
love ur vids man. ur my guitar player to watch on youtube. keep up the great work!
I like how your shirt blends with the light coming through your blinds hitting the back wall.
Chris Cornell’s “Seasons” from the Singles soundtrack:
F-F-C-C-C-F
So awesome
lmao I wasn't expecting to see the D A D F A E tuning in this vid. That's my favorite tuning to play in because of Opeth 🤘😂
So glad you did the DmAdd9 tuning. My favorite variation of that is a Dm7Add9 tuning, with a C instead of an A on the B string
Very interesting those different tunnings. Probably a lot more too. This is the first I've heard about on guitar teaching. Thanks.
The 5 weirdest tunings. Also known as The Last Coldplay Album
Ghost Reveries is actually the album, try the Opeth song Ghost of Perdition from that album to hear DADFAE tuning.
Thank you sir, you're doing the good work for the people.
the way you giggled when you said @1:44 "essentially eliminating our need to think", I just knew it would be good.
Bro I just wanna say I absolutely love that black PRS you used on the D minor add9 tuning
3:30
This could have been on the soundtrack for the game Diablo. It's got that Tristram kind of feel.
I was going to suggest that you need to do a dedicated video just on Shawn Lane but then you'd have to play some of his songs and I reconsidered: it would be kind of cruel for me to request you do that: man was a technique monster.
He was possibly even faster and more impressive on Piano btw.
7:25 I always heard this tuning the negative, aggressive, sad way, and you made it like a positive and happy, hopeful sound
I play a bunch in CmAdd9 so its dope to see other applications of that family of tunings.
My favorite alternate tuning I discovered was popularized by Third Eye Blind and used in Wounded
DADEAC#
The rain song tuning: D G C G C D used by Jimmy page on 'the rain song'
A cool tuning I came up with recently was B, Fb, Cb, Gb, B, Cb. And for bass I play on a 7 string bass tuned in Cb, E, Gb, Cb, Fb, B, E.
Oh man, I wanted to wait until the end of the video to suggest it because i thought DminAdd9 wasn't gonna be mentioned but here I am. I love this tuning so much. Emin7Add9 is great as well
I sometimes use a really easy but weird tuning, EADGBB, the last B is just a little off from the first one to get a dissonant sound, I use it when I’m doing finger picking at Renaissance fairs, gives a sea chanty vibe
It turns out that that's the tuning used by Lou Reed for "Venus in Furs", which upon hearing it, kinda reminded me of "The End", which is another tuning (DADGBD), but same principle :)
YES THE ETHEREAL TUNING YES FINALLY I NEED MORE SONGS WITH THAT TUNING THANK YOU
The tuning from Skinny Love by Bon Iver is one on my favorites:
e > c
b < c (same octave as above)
G - same
D < E
A > G
E > C
So you end up with C, G, E, G, C, C... a giant, "churchy" c-major chord. It's one of my favorites to mess around in.
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL CAUSE I KEEP FINDING THINGS LIKE THIS TO HAVE FUN WITH WOOOO
The four dislikes are from people who don’t have fingers
...?
Imagine having fingers tho
@Ya Boi Henry Sadly 😔
@Can I get 250 subscribers before the end of July? With their nose
The true weirdest tuning is whats left after I try to tune by ear
I've been playing DACEAD for a while now, and it's brilliant. You get easy chord shapes in the low strings with using 1 or 2 fingers, while still having 2-3 fingers free for melodies on the more traditional high strings.
That DADFAE tuning makes using all kinds of different chord types so easily accessible. I learned Ghost Reveries and learned a ton about how to use that tuning just in that one song
Ethereal: "This may be the most aptly named of all the tunings on this list." I disagree: CABBAGE is most aptly named. Not only does it spell out the tuning but everything you play in that tuning sounds like cabbage.
@phantom kraut.
GHOST REVERIES ISN’T A SONG IT’S AN ALBUM
I think he meant to say Ghost of Perdition lol
ᛟᚦᚨᛚᚨ Yeah but the whole album or almost all of it uses that tuning I’m pretty sure
Didn't know you had mastered canning, Tyler. Some tasty jams you"ve got there.
I’m a fan of DADADD or down half a step from this too. The top two strings can ring out or the a string used and the top string ring out. Nice and open feel to it.
This tuning is by far the WEIRDEST. I only know of it being used in one song. Its Incinerate by Sonic Youth. The tuning goes: D# D# A# D# G g. Check it out the song slaps.
I Like This Sound...
Awesome
one of my faves FACGCE ive only seen it used once but i use it to write songs all the time
Every time I blinked there was a new guitar! You are truly living on the edge.
Have you ever done a video on Open D5 tuning (DADADD)? The only guitarist that I know of that uses this tuning is Mark Tremonti. I think this tuning is great. It can sound so beautiful but can also sound so evil.
I just want to shout out opeth!!! They have a song in DADFAE and a song in AADGBE
What are the song names? He said ghost reveries but that's an album... unless he means ghosts of perdition?
@Oscar Preciado Ghost of PEridition is in DADFAE, yes. idk about the whole album tho
@@Woahbro69420 The whole album is in DADFAE, but Ghost of perdition is a good start. Sorceress is the one in AADGBE
Dope, thx everyone
@@Henriktranoy Beneath the Mire, Atonement, and Hours of Wealth are all in E standard
There is one that I came up with when my ukulele went way out of tune and I never play it. I was just seeing what tuning it had landed on. It was realy cool and I wanted to play it on my guitar (to not get laughed at while playing live) the tuning is C G D# and everything else standard. You can actually play joni mitchell realy well with a c shape chord which is nice. Anyway thanks for the video! Realy cool
I think I'm gonna try to tune one of my guitars to the Ichika tuning.
It just sounds so good I'm amazed.
Sadly I think it would put too much pressure on the strings.
Well it's time to go do some research.
7:14 ah yes, GHOST Reveries, my favourite opith song.
I remember 30 years ago trying to figure out the chords on velvet underground and Nico and I could never get the freaking sound right because I had no idea what the hell he was doing.
You'd be surprised to know that Lou didn't always use Ostrich; he most of the time used standard guitar tunings. The only times he used Ostrich tuning in VU was at the final seconds of "Venus in Furs" and the whole of the song "All Tomorrow's Parties".
This is an awesome vid. Thanks.
...why weren't you around in 1984 when I was serious about guitar? ...(???)
Listening to you playing the ethereal tuning, geez it inspires and demotivates me. Like, how can you come up with such beautiful progressions? But also, I want to be able to do the same. Im conflicted. Ill play around with it. I appreciate this video. As late as I am listening.
yeah, think i'll stuck with my standard/drop d
Stephen Stills uses EEEEBE on “Carry on”, which sounds like a got dang freight train.
I was just wondering what tuning that was today
And suite: Judy blue eyes
Suite Judy Blue Eyes was the first Stills song to use that tuning
Thank you for recommending shawn lane!!! Dude is awesome
I wrote an acoustic song years ago in CGCCCC its an interesting tuning to mess around with. Cheers!
I use open Csus2 for some tasty heavy music, CGCGCD. Devin townsend uses this as well.
Isn't that just open Csus2?
@@jacobjallen2620 could be i never learn my theory
Jorrik Kerdijk yeah dude that’s just a csus2. I don’t know where you got the idea that it was a minor chord
@@owem6511 changed it
*The weirdest tuning is the one you get after having your guitar in the case for a long time*
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Not if it’s a Telecaster!
I love you man you are the greatest
DADGCC
Michael hedges used it in "ritual dance" and it sounds really cool, it also has amazing sounding harmonics
C G C G C D, a really cool acoustic sound 👌
Want weird tunings, just listen to any Sonic youth record. That's their specialty
Truly fantastic - thanks!
So glad I clicked on this video. One of my favorite alternate tunings is the one Chris Cornell used for the song, "Seasons". Like a guitar sitting in a Washington State log cabin for a winter.
When you listen to that song, get every string tuned right, you will see what I mean.
I was going to say CABBAGE but you already covered that so here is EGABBAC
2:47 that sounds like a dimebag solo
I enjoy the “djent” tunings, you basically do a 7 string tuning on a 6 string minus the low E string.
An example would be (low to high) AGCFAD or GGCFAD
when I moved, one of my guitars had strings on that were kinda too thick in the first place, but then it in CACGCC* where that last C is just kind barely out of tune, and this was so much fun. I'm literally in the middle of restringing it watching this video, it was a hard choice to make and I already regret it.
How about Pearl Jam's Daughter tuning? G G D G B D
jerico pineda That’s just an Open G tuning, I’m pretty sure. It’s the same tuning Keith Richards uses with the addition of the thickest string.
Alter Bridge has some good songs to practice open G with “Watch Over You”, “In Loving Memory”, and “Wonderful Life” but it’s D-G-D-G-B-D
Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood uses the same tuning
1. Any Nick Drake tuning
CGCFCE ;)
The tunning John Mayer uses in “In Your Atmosphere” E, B, E, F#, E, B... its sound good, and it is exstremely creative!
I really enjoy BADGBe because it makes the guitar have a larger range. Plus, two finger power chords become octaves (alter bridge uses this quite a bit, all be it, a half a step down)