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What song are you listening to right now?


So it's also one of those videos where I stare at the screen for a few minutes after it's done and decide to put my guitar away and not touch it for a few days. This video is the actual guitarist of that band; Bear, playing the song on guitar so people can learn it.

More technical; I'm actually quite amazed how the guitar tuning is almost a full octave lower than regular guitars but still retains string tension. It probably has to do with his bridge being way more centered on his guitar, not to mention that bare knuckle pick-up providing that low, heavy sound that's a bit of signature thing for the genre itself (yet it does nothing for the string tension, does add to the overall sound though), but yeah... I want to shred in drop G as well; Drop B already was a bit of a floppy mess on my guitar :(
 
King_Oni said:

So it's also one of those videos where I stare at the screen for a few minutes after it's done and decide to put my guitar away and not touch it for a few days. This video is the actual guitarist of that band; Bear, playing the song on guitar so people can learn it.

More technical; I'm actually quite amazed how the guitar tuning is almost a full octave lower than regular guitars but still retains string tension. It probably has to do with his bridge being way more centered on his guitar, not to mention that bare knuckle pick-up providing that low, heavy sound that's a bit of signature thing for the genre itself (yet it does nothing for the string tension, does add to the overall sound though), but yeah... I want to shred in drop G as well; Drop B already was a bit of a floppy mess on my guitar :(
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I'm not familiar with specialized metal guitars, but wouldn't the neck/scale on that one be a bit longer than say the neck/scale of a run of the mill telecaster?

That and some really heavy gauge strings. Mine all have short scales and I'm getting used to taking thicker strings to make the normal tuning not too floppy, or the occasional open G. Totally different, but the principle's the same.
 
gonzerd said:
I'm not familiar with specialized metal guitars, but wouldn't the neck/scale on that one be a bit longer than say the neck/scale of a run of the mill telecaster?

That and some really heavy gauge strings. Mine all have short scales and I'm getting used to taking thicker strings to make the normal tuning not too floppy, or the occasional open G. Totally different, but the principle's the same.
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Thick gauge strings do add to overall chunkiness, I usually have 0.56 as my heaviest gauge as the top string. AS I've read the guy in the video playing has a 0.62 as the top one, so yeah.. that adds to the sound.

I'm still debating with myself wether longer or shorter neck/scale makes the difference in having low tunings (octavewise) and being less floppy. I just know from personal experience my ESP (which is pretty much a regular build with 2 double coil pick-up slots) doesn't like it when I go all low tuned since strings get floppy and it's terrible to shred, lol.
 
Anytime you see that Jimmy Fallon's done a musical impersonation, you know something good is going to happen.
 
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