Robert Fripp's New Standard Tuning | Reverb Learn to Play 

So what should I listen to by Fripp?

Guitar work on St. Elmo's Fire by Brian Eno

@@Muzikman127 his work with Bowie, David Sylvian, King Crimson.

@@Muzikman127 FRlPP HAS C0VERED A L0T 0F GR0vND. (EX: he plays the crazy s0l0 0n B0WlE's "FASHl0N") (F0RGlVE my glltchlng APPLE keyb0ard!) MAYBE START WlTH 1973's LARKS T0NGvES lN ASPlC?

PointyTailofSatan I reckon his most accessible work was with Bowie on Heroes and Scary Monsters.

lmao

Hahahaha 🤣

Dying here.

LOL moment of my month 😂

This made me laugh out loud

He also said, "music is just a very interesting thing to be doing with the air". Love Tom Waits.

DavidRavenMoon - so true! Keith Richards' famous '5-string guitar' is in non-standard tuning AND has no Low E string. And sounds Epic.

"The problem with speaking the same language all the times is, your mind always fly to the familiar words" This argument doesn't make much sense.

Tom Waits once said, "Grrr rrwaar rwwr brra graa geaa."

Chords are like words, the same words can be put together in original or unoriginal ways, the problem is not being stuck on the same chords but rather on the same chord TRANSITIONS which is exactly what alternative turnings provide, an opportunity to explore alternative transitions once the chords are learned. There is no need to tune strings to 12 equal ether, open strings may be tuned to just intervals for example., pure fifths or fourths or thirds or minor thirds that can be moved to any fret, something a keyboard could not do in the same simple way.

Don't misquote the man! He never said "can't" !

lol "angled camera bullshit" so true

Naah, my pet dog got ran over.

ima man ... you're in the wrong tuning, careful you dont break a string.

RIGHT, @Christopher Caldera! Use of quotes is reserved for when you are quoting someone, @Alex! He actually said: "I don't expect to necessarily get in the mind of Robert Fripp in this lesson, ..." Try listening again at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Jt1VClGZfQ.htmlm37s

Cocky Guitarists Don't Always Excite Girls

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total sabotage of the Every Ass Does Get Beaten Eventually tuning that we all know. I met Robert Fripp back in the 70's-very nice guy.

HAHA I'm cracking up over the EADGBE!

Crimson Guitarists Don't Always Expect Good

Vesper. Now if he had said the mind is like a shroom. But no, Zappa was a tobacco addict, that's all he ever knew.

“Maybe I’m a rock.” - Frank Zappa

Vesper Nice!

Prof. Walter Kotschnig told Holyoke College students to keep their minds open-“but not so open that your brains fall out.”

@@Foxglove963 yes 'tobacco is my favourite vegetable' FZ

but he didn't tell us WHY it was created, or WHAT advantage it gave Fripp! To me that was the TOP question

Yeah!

John Wetton is my favourite bassist, so I agree! Such a thick and crunchy tone and amazingly aggressive style

PurpleBulbous Hmmm. I think is more likely He learned... From the teachings of Gurdieff.

More importantly, scales lay out in pairs of 4-note patterns and are uniform across the bottom 4 strings. Scale playing is about 12,000 times more logical in NST.

He said he wasn't going yo get into Fripp's mind tho

He said he wasn't going yo get into Fripp's mind tho

The NST is not more logical for the guitar. A fifths tuning is perfectly logical for short scale melodic instruments like the violin and the viola, but it is uncomfortable and hindering for a counterpoint instrument like the guitar. It makes difficult to play what is simple, so I would never call it "standard".

Lots of bass players tune in fifths, fewer chords. You can use a B string to get that low C. You may have to adjust your relief some after it settles in.

I tuned a ukulele to D A E B no problem

You need the thinnest strings for it to not break.

Most people using this tuning use different string guages; thin ones get thinner, thick ones get thicker. As he says, it also needs a special setup.

Fripp explained that, essentially, you just need to will it into tune, it won't break. 😉

Fripp uses a 9 on the high string

Same lol

Lower tension on the strings and lower notes, this is a big part of how Black Sabbath's sound came to be. It's not a fancy tuning but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea

DrRussPhd or they sold less records cause they suck

@@Ottophil yeah dude, that's definitely true, good job.

Hugh tube Robert fripp is one of the most arrogant and full of themselves musicians who ever lived

Mr Fripp wasn't even aware there was a box to begin with

@@kitchenmaster43 and it works, so, who cares? I don't

Eric Malone Haunted Shores

have you seen the videos of aussie band KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD..... from their album with MICROTONAL guitars on it? Check it out. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF NST? What does it do that Fripp prefers, that regular tuning can't do?

@@jonbongjovi1869 Yes, I know King Gizzard's microtonal stuff. Mr Fripp's New Standard Tuning extends the range of the guitar, with E going down to C; A going down to G; D staying the same; G going up to A; B going up to E; and E going up to G. "What does it do that Fripp prefers, that regular tuning can't do?" Listen to The League of Crafty Guitarists. CHEERS

@@ericmalone3213 Oh. When I got my first guitar at 17, the FIRST thing I did was change the standard tuning, so my highest note was HIGHER than other guitars and the low was LOWER than other guitars, cuz i hated the REDUNDANCY on a 6 string guitar. (If i could, all my electric guitars would be 4 strings, but they cover the same low-to-high notes of regular 6 strings. You don't need all that waste in there! My electronic uke is my fave! FOUR STRINGS. Keep it super simple! ) (My low note ["E" string] was 5 notes / frets LOWER than Drop D, so whatever that is!) I gather NST also goes lower and higher than other 6 strings in normal tuning, from what you say. (I refuse to learn the letters of the strings.) I saw the League of CG with Fripp in the 1980s (or was it 1990s?) and it was pretty stunning if you're in the same room....but i never noticed any pitches or such that seemed unusually low or high. Of course, Fripp COULD just have more frets put on the higher strings! EX: Michael Angelo Batis (sp?) has a guitar with like 28 frets (!) and Uli Jon Roth has one around that many, too. DOESN'T NST WARP & TWIST THE NECK? ARE THERE ANY OTHER ADVANTAGES FOR FRIPP or other guitarists? (I get that cellists and others should use NST for the same shapes they already know....)

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If I have to pee at night, I dont get up, I just a have a 2liter bottle next to my bed.

It's easy to play using drop D tuning.

Just make sure the neck on the 12 is really well braced. I caved mine across the top of the sound hole and sheared off the neck block when I tried to convert mine to a bass mando cello guitar with 6 double courses.

Yes, it is worth to check out, but when you get used to it, also the New Standard Tuning becomes a habit, with all the bad consequences of any habit (repetitivness, mechanicity, etc.). You can think and create different things with the normal tuning too, it is a matter of awareness and musical ideas, not of tunings.

It's the Lydian tonality he mentioned in the video, Homme does that as well a lot of the time while soloing.

Jie Lee I was thinking the same thing.

as a fan of both i can see some overlap how they are creating a sinister yet beautiful sound.....

Suburban Behemoth only thing is that its very much up to the player to discern what feels best rather than just looking up a chart and hoping it feels okay haha

Sam Lee What are the strings tuned to?

+Joseph Bastidas g o o g l e

I gotta write that down

@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Where is the O note?...I got the E and the G is easy enough, but a bit confused about that L note as well.

@@gplito o = open string

Sorry...I mean QOTSA...it was a typo...I edited it.

@Wadsmitter I don't think Josh Homme took anything from King Crimson.

@@profd65 yeah, if he did his music would sound a lot better

@@joshstiehl1170 Or at least a lot more pretentious.

@@profd65 Touché

Yes...what blog and where?

I think Ernie ball slinky top heavy bottoms will work, you can go onto the new standard tuning Wikipedia page and see the string gauge for them.

I would suggest somthing between .99 and .00000001 Your welcome in advance

What are the advantages of this tuning?