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EpiSGpl8r
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I saw a thing on www.musiciansnews.com about different tuning styles and i've heard of indian tuning but what is hendrix tuning?
matty_boy
New member
Dunno if this helps, but I know that he used to tune 1/2 step flat.
64Firebird
New member
I think Jimi tuned up with the bass player and didn't worry about it it being the "correct" pitch. As long as everybody was in tune reletive to each other they were okay. Sometimes he was flat and other times he seems to be somewhere in between. Sometimes he was spot on. And of corse his wammy bar antics didn't help.
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72fender
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Jimi tuned to Eb, SRV did the same too. All (most) the new guitar tuners make tuning to Eb very easy.
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gjb3
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SRV tuned to E flat? Is that the same as "tuning down a half-step"? I met a guitarist recently who swore that SRV tuned down "a whole step and a half", which I took to mean C#. This guy did it too and it sounded like crapola. I wondered if we were talking about the same thing...
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72fender
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Yes, just tune down a half step. One easy way to tune, is to capo at the first fret and tune to 'regular' tuning. I keep one of my Strats tuned to Eb for Jimi and SRV songs.
Lonnie Mack (Wham) tunes his flying V down a whole step to D, he used huge strings (0.52 - 0.13) like SRV did, you have to tune down to bend strings that size. Jimi used 0.48 - 0.10 which is why he was out of tune so much after playing a song.
Lonnie Mack (Wham) tunes his flying V down a whole step to D, he used huge strings (0.52 - 0.13) like SRV did, you have to tune down to bend strings that size. Jimi used 0.48 - 0.10 which is why he was out of tune so much after playing a song.
participant
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Smashing Pumpkins tuned down to Eb, too...
...right now Im recording a song tuned up 1/2 step, with the 6 dropped... drop D#...
...actually, tuned a few cents higher than 1/2 step; attempting to create a unique recording. It's a pain to tune the bass and guitars without benefit of a tuner... must be done by playing into a free channel (by ear). Right now just using the pitch wheel on the EX5 keyboard until I get around to tuning the thing up a few cents.
Chad
...right now Im recording a song tuned up 1/2 step, with the 6 dropped... drop D#...
...actually, tuned a few cents higher than 1/2 step; attempting to create a unique recording. It's a pain to tune the bass and guitars without benefit of a tuner... must be done by playing into a free channel (by ear). Right now just using the pitch wheel on the EX5 keyboard until I get around to tuning the thing up a few cents.
Chad
King Elvis
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Eddie VH tuned down half a step because that is where Diamond Dave's vocal range, or lack thereof, was...
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CroElite
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Hendrix used 0.09 and SRV used 0.11
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Even 8 years ago....
ocnor
Lord Of The Thighs
He tuned his strings like this: L-S-D-L-S-D.
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ggunn
Crystal Flavolian
I don't really get it why you would want to do that, but even many cheap quartz tuners have the capacity to be calibrated to + or - a few Hz from A440. My old Conn Strobotuner can be calibrated as sharp or flat as I want.
Tadpui
Well-known member
Actually, Stevie Ray used .013 most of the time. Hendrix, I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that SRV used 13's with an occasional lighter high E string.
loveofjazz
Sheep Defiler
I think he started using an .011 high E during his last year or two. Can't recall where I read that.
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Harvey Gerst
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At TTG Studios in Los Angeles, I had a chance to play one of Jimi's four Strats. It was tuned standard (EADGBE) and the high string felt like about a .010 or .011.
jab2980
MoA
Our Lady Peace, Deftones, and Alice in Chains also commonly tune a half step down. I've only used that tuning myself too, to accommodate my lower vocal range.
Edit - Sorry by the time I got through this thread, I thought it was a half step down thread instead of a Jimi Hendrix tuning question, afterward I realized that my post had zero contribution to the original question. And yes its been answered by collectively everybody - he had no one tuning, but a lot of his stuff was 1/2 step down. You'll find that a lot of it won't match up with a precisely tuned guitar though.
Edit - Sorry by the time I got through this thread, I thought it was a half step down thread instead of a Jimi Hendrix tuning question, afterward I realized that my post had zero contribution to the original question. And yes its been answered by collectively everybody - he had no one tuning, but a lot of his stuff was 1/2 step down. You'll find that a lot of it won't match up with a precisely tuned guitar though.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
That's cool as hell, man.
That doesn't surprise me - my understanding was really light strings didn't really begin to catch on until after Jimi, and that most electric players at his time were using whatever they could get their hands on, provided they had an unwound G.
Anfontan
Banned by eurt
That's cool as hell, man.
That doesn't surprise me - my understanding was really light strings didn't really begin to catch on until after Jimi, and that most electric players at his time were using whatever they could get their hands on, provided they had an unwound G.
I think I recall hearing that James Burton was one of the first guys to use thin banjo strings to get light gauges and the unwound 'G' strings.
Yeah-as a kid when I started playing I could only find Black Diamond strings, those were terrible!!!
Armistice
Son of Yoda
"Hendrix tuning" is the tuning that your guitar ends up in after you douse it in lighter fluid and set it alight...
