great feeling

being finally able to tune each string without reference

 

how do you tune you guitar? i like to tune mine a half or whole step down... sounds better i think. and the bends are way easir and also sound better

 

i dont. i like to be able to play along to records without transposing

 

indeed a good feeling

 

i found out that i knew how to do that when i visited george. all you really gotta know is what the high e sounds like, and the rest is easy.

 

you tune from high to low? :S

 

Yeah, that's all there is to it...

I like tuning to Open E, now... slide. What I used to do is tune a whole step down and capo up a fret, if I wanted my action a hair higher. Sometimes I'd play a half step down. (I like Shubb or Kyser, but I've been wanting to try a G7). But lately it's either been open E or just regular standard with a set of .014s. That or I just play Ernie Ball .011s and just play five strings and throw out the .011.

Then DADGAD, DADGBE, CGCFAD, etc... comes fairly easy once you get standard.

 

when you play slide with open major tuning, is the point that your not meant to play minor chords? :S

or do you just play like a d minor shape with the root note up a fret?

 

I do a lot of sliding, barring, and power chords... but I don't mean punkish crap, more like... well, hmm... trying to think of a good example, warren haynes does it at times, but he plays in standard.