Quote (Fragmeats @ Sat, 17 Jan 2009, 18:48)
for anyone who's in a band, who writes their own material or just do covers, what are you usually tuned to? and what type of music do you play.
on guitar, we're usually tuned to either:
normal c
drop c
drop a
or drop a# (only for in flames and jfac)
all metal, and sometimes like a moderate crunch type of melody thing backing an acoustic layer.
It depends what your vocalist can cope with. Personally, if i was fronting a band i'd ask everyone to tune down to D or Drop C so i could sing along with it. It depends on the vocal range partially, but mainly it's done for live performances. Think about Hetfield. S&M was tuned down to D so that he could hit all the notes and not strain his voice.
It's a clever thing really. I personally like Drop D tuning.