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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
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 Posted - 12/11/2004 : 12:36:55 PM
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| what's the deal with the tuning for messenger? is it a 12 string tuned in some kind of 7th? |
death to false metal. |
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JTR
Chatterbox
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Posted - 12/11/2004 : 1:15:35 PM
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| I'll give it a quick look here later, I've been meaning to examine it more closely. But strangely, I have a feeling I won't be able to get anything helpful down. |
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JTR
Chatterbox
417 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2004 : 2:05:37 PM
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Yeah, it's weird, I just tried to figure out the first few notes, and it's some kind of slide from a F to a F# (on my 12-string down half a step which I'm assuming TR was doing as well), and it's just damn confusing what the hell is going on. I can't tell if the octaves are just from the high and low pairs on the 12... It seems something like this:
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-----4/5-------
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...but I have no confidence in that. It's never a good sign when you have no idea what's going on within the first 2 seconds of a song. |
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dan p.
Alien Abductee
Uganda
3776 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2004 : 5:53:35 PM
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| it sounds like the e, a, d, and their respective octave strings are tuned like e/f# a/b d/e or something. it moves too fast for my somewhat (severely) lacking aural skills to be able to tell. |
death to false metal. |
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Arthen
Alien Abductee
USA
4845 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2004 : 01:41:49 AM
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| It would be really cool if it was alternately tuned. That'd be a first for Tim, at least as far as I have heard of. |
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Kevin
Chatterbox
USA
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Posted - 12/12/2004 : 09:06:24 AM
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Tim's a fuckin genius if he did that and pulled it off so well  I'm interested to know if that is in fact what he does... |
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tuning for "messenger?"
