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Standard Choro tuning – C-E-A-d-g-b-e' Standard seven-string tuning for Brazilian choro. Drop D + B 7-string tuning – B'-D-A-d-g-b-e' Standard seven-string tuning with the low E dropped to D, which results in a minor 3rd interval between the two lowest strings of B and D. Used by Ed Sloan of Crossfade.
"Sad but True" is in D Standard tuning, however the song was originally written and demoed in E Standard. Bob Rock, who produced The Black Album, recalled to Musicradar.com: "We were in pre-production, which was uncomfortable because nobody had ever made them go through their songs in such a deliberate way before, and six songs in 'Sad But True' came along.
A dropped tuning is one of the categories of alternative tunings and the process starts with standard tuning and typically lowers the pitch of ("drops") one or more strings, almost always the lowest-pitched (E) string on the guitar. The drop D tuning is common in electric guitar and heavy metal music. [19]
"Even Flow" was written in the key of D major, [7] with Gossard performing his parts in open D tuning and McCready complementing it with a similar rhythm pattern in standard tuning. [8] The recorded version of the song actually sounds slightly sharper than D major, with everything tuned up—accidentally or otherwise—around one quarter of a step.
While Chevelle's debut album was recorded in standard D tuning, the band switched to drop B, with some songs written in standard D♭ tuning. The band also spent much more time adjusting tones and preparing before recording, as opposed to the less refined studio process of working with Steve Albini.
A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll placed the song at number one on a list of the 10 best Van Halen songs. [3]Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com named it the second-best Van Halen song, writing that it "merely feels like insatiable straight-ahead rock, but the lick is freaky, obliquely hovering above the foundation while the drums oscillate between two unrelated performance philosophies."
"Spoonman" was performed in drop D tuning.The main riff was written in septuple meter, in 7 4 time. [7] [8] [9] The chorus is 44 and part of the spoon solo is in 3 4.The guitarist, Kim Thayil, has said that Soundgarden usually did not consider the time signature of a song until after the band had written it and said that the use of odd meters was "a total accident".
The ostrich guitar or ostrich tuning is a type of trivial tuning.It assigns one note to all strings, e.g. E-E-e-e-e'-e' or D-D-D-D-d'-d'. The term "ostrich guitar" was coined by the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed after the pre-Velvet Underground song "The Ostrich" [1] by Lou Reed and the Primitives, on which he first recorded using this tuning, the first known commercial composition to make use ...