8 String Rock Tuning

Bobby Lee · From: Cloverdale, California, USA

I recently started playing my Sierra Laptop on a few songs with Open Hearts. At first I used my regular E13 tuning, but I found that it didn't have some of the "power chords" that I needed. Last night I restrung it to include a middle F#, and I'm really happy with the result:

1. G#


2. E


3. C#


4. B


5. G#


6. F#


7. E


8. B

The F# is tuned beatless to the B strings. This gives me a very solid 151 power chord on strings 8, 6 and 4, and a lot of very handy lead notes.

Just wanted to share...

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Bobby Lee - email: quasar@b0b.com - gigs - CDs, Open Hearts
Sierra Session 12 (E9), Williams 400X (Emaj9, D6), Sierra Olympic 12 (C6add9),
Sierra Laptop 8 (D13), Fender Stringmaster (E13, A6),
Roland Handsonic, Line 6 Variax

Jesse Pearson · From: San Diego , CA

Bobby, that's pretty cool. Are you retuning back and forth for songs our just leaving it on there all the time?

Bobby Lee · From: Cloverdale, California, USA

I'm only using it on 3 songs, and they all work very well in this tuning. They are all major chord progressions:

Song 1


C G D D  3 times


C G A A


 


Song 2


G F C G  with some arrangment variations


 


Song 3


D C G D  4 times


F C G D  4 times

So you see, they are all pretty similar. Not exactly rocket science.

[This message was edited by Bobby Lee on 20 August 2003 at 11:51 AM.]

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