What’s is YOUR standard tuning?

[TheBiggestJerk]

How do you tune your guitar?

 

[JackBootedThug]

I have an everything in different tunings but my go to is c# standard….

 

[Floyd Eye]

Used to be I just tuned down a half step. These days I have some in open tunings and some in tunings like CGCGGE or CGDGBE.

 

[311splawndude]

What ever my Snark clip on tuner tells me


Drop C which is not C standard
CGCFAD

 

[Geo]

Standard but sometimes drop D

 

[watson503]

Eb on all of my guitars

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Yes

 

[The~Kid]

It depends but I like either E flat or E.



On Les Paul's it's E flat but on Strats it's either or.

 

[VonBonfire]

Jerk are you able to figure out how to post your threads in the right sub forum or do we need to make you a sticky-tutorial?

@Monkey Man better get back to your computer you got work to do.

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

What ever my Snark clip on tuner tells me


Drop C which is not C standard
CGCFAD

I’ve been playing in a tuning I call Black Zep. DADGAD but down 1/2 step to C#G#C#F#G#C#. Heavy and exotic.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I’ve been playing in a tuning I call Black Zep. DADGAD but down 1/2 step to C#G#C#F#G#C#. Heavy and exotic.

That’s pretty much open C#. Burden in my hand and a lot of other Soundgarden is in that tuning.

 

[311splawndude]

I’ve been playing in a tuning I call Black Zep. DADGAD but down 1/2 step to C#G#C#F#G#C#. Heavy and exotic.

Zeppelin is fun to play in Drop C

 

[thegame]

Tightly wound

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

That’s pretty much open C#. Burden in my hand and a lot of other Soundgarden is in that tuning.

It’s C#sus4 tuning. 1st, 4th and 5th scale degrees.
Open C# is a major triad w/ R,M3,5.

 

[MetalThrasher]

I play my six's and seven's in either 1/2 step down Eb, Bb, or whole step-down D, A. For some reason I never got into drop tuning (drop D, drop C etc.)

 

[Floyd Eye]

It’s C#sus4 tuning. 1st, 4th and 5th scale degrees.
Open C# is a major triad w/ R,M3,5.

Isn’t the only difference the F#

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

What ever my Snark clip on tuner tells me


Drop C which is not C standard
CGCFAD

Drop C is drop D down a whole step.

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

Isn’t the only difference the F#

F# is the 4th scale of the C# major scale.
Suspended chords don’t have a 3rd. It’s Root,4,5 or Root,2,5.

 

[Floyd Eye]

F# is the 4th scale of the C# major scale.
Suspended chords don’t have a 3rd. It’s Root,4,5 or Root,2,5.

Ok. So the only difference is the F# is an F, right ?

 

[TheBiggestJerk]

Ok. So the only difference is the F# is an F, right ?

Open C tuning exists in several flavors of C major triad - some combination of C,E,G. ie… CGCGCE.
Tuned up a whole step yields some variety of DADF#AD- Open D.
DADGAD (the Zep tuning) is a modal D tuning with the F# major third (of open D) up to G the perfect suspended 4th.
The tuning I use is DADGAD down half a step. Identical theory as the aforementioned.
Damn this got muddy quick. lol