The 5 WEIRDEST Guitar Tunings 

What *weird* tuning would you put on this list?

I like using this exotic Middle Eastern tuning I learned: B A G D A D

Kinda mad that the EEEEEE tuning isn't called Dolphin tuning, but whatever.

only tuning i have is the one that my old squier makes after using whammy bar

"The reverse tuning" tuned: E B G D A E

me: thinks of tuning my guitar to one of these >proceeds to do so >string breaks >fretboard snaps and stabs me in the chest

another weird tuning: B D D D D D(the tuning that The Goo Goo Dolls used for "Iris")

If I had a dollar for every PRS you have, I’d be able to buy a PRS.

heard about this super crazy rare new tuning called “drop D”, don’t know much about it but it sounds cool, should include that in your next video man

0:41Tritone Tuning 2:14 Ethereal Tuning 3:28 CABBAGE 4:20 The Ostrich Tuning 5:32 Diminished(add9) Tuning

E E E E E E tuning should actually have been the 'Sexy (6E) tuning'

“Out Of Tune” Tuning It Really Doesn’t Matter, All your strings are slightly Sharp Or Flat

The weirdest tunning is the one when your little sister messes with all the tuning pegs

Ichika Nito makes every tuning nice

I’ve always wanted to use a tuning of only one note, all different octaves, never figured out the way to do it

The tuning I learned after leaving my wife and kids: BAD DAD

*Ichika Nito has entered the chat* Edit: He just mentioned him lol

I did a tuning where each ascending string was a perfect fifth above the previous string. It went A E B F# C# G#

Just Superunknown in general.. almost every song is in a different tuning

Hey man. Just listen to the Soundgarden. They got a lots of alternate tuning and so much fun to play. They used ostrich tuning on 1991 Badmotorfingers album and the song was Mind Riot. Alternate tuning, odd time signature, Chris Cornell sing and play guitar, rock and roll. What more I can say? They're legendary

Thank God for weird tunings! Otherwise there would be no 'Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin!

Soundgarden also used Ostrich tuning for the song "Mind Riot." SG is famous for their many tunings, BADGBE and DGDGBC are my favorite alternate tuning from them. BADGBE isn't that weird, but they use it for 3 different songs and get pretty creative.

Oh, bro, that Tritone tunning sounds amazing and so heavy.

We all could agree, that the pioneers of weird tunings are Sonic Youth.

#6 - Drop ö - the tuning for bröötal Djönts

I have recently grown fond of all of these tuning ideas that you wouldn't traditionally think of. When you really find these clever and creative tunings, it sounds so inspiring when you make the most out of them! Awesome here!

Ichika will know about weird tunings

What about CGCGGC... Ben Howard used this tuning in his song “Old Pine.” It is a STRENGTHCHORD (or one giant power chord) I believe and it is really beautiful. You could do a lot with it I’m sure!

A lot of Soundgarden songs are tuned EEBBBB, which allows for songs like “My Wave” to be played simultaneously in Em and B Mixolydian.

Music is Win: the sounds of hell! Proceeds to play random prog rock riff.

You're such an amazing guitarist and you deserve all the success you have earned. Keep kicking ass bro!

Great video! Your PRS collection is the greatest

lmao I wasn't expecting to see the D A D F A E tuning in this vid. That's my favorite tuning to play in because of Opeth 🤘😂

EEBBBB/EEBBBE the tuning used in many of the best Soundgarden Songs (My Wave, The Day I Tried To Live, Been Away Too Long, etc).

I really enjoyed the use of the slide with the ostrich tuning. A really fascinating wailing.

Very interesting those different tunnings. Probably a lot more too. This is the first I've heard about on guitar teaching. Thanks.

describes the definition of ethereal etherealithicly, and then proceeds playing an ethereal tuning in an ethereal manor. how ethereal.

Chris Cornell’s “Seasons” from the Singles soundtrack: F-F-C-C-C-F So awesome

love ur vids man. ur my guitar player to watch on youtube. keep up the great work!

So glad you did the DmAdd9 tuning. My favorite variation of that is a Dm7Add9 tuning, with a C instead of an A on the B string

I was going to suggest that you need to do a dedicated video just on Shawn Lane but then you'd have to play some of his songs and I reconsidered: it would be kind of cruel for me to request you do that: man was a technique monster. He was possibly even faster and more impressive on Piano btw.

Oh man, you broke Steve Vai's cardinal rule, and I'm pretty sure Thurston Moore has the lone house on that block. All jokes aside, I got tingly watching this one, Tyler, awesome stuff

I like how your shirt blends with the light coming through your blinds hitting the back wall.

Bro I just wanna say I absolutely love that black PRS you used on the D minor add9 tuning

The entire Sonic Youth discography is now laughing at your face

YES THE ETHEREAL TUNING YES FINALLY I NEED MORE SONGS WITH THAT TUNING THANK YOU

The tuning from Skinny Love by Bon Iver is one on my favorites: e > c b < c (same octave as above) G - same D < E A > G E > C So you end up with C, G, E, G, C, C... a giant, "churchy" c-major chord. It's one of my favorites to mess around in.

I play a bunch in CmAdd9 so its dope to see other applications of that family of tunings.

3:30 This could have been on the soundtrack for the game Diablo. It's got that Tristram kind of feel.

The 5 weirdest tunings. Also known as The Last Coldplay Album

the way you giggled when you said @1:44 "essentially eliminating our need to think", I just knew it would be good.

Oh man, I wanted to wait until the end of the video to suggest it because i thought DminAdd9 wasn't gonna be mentioned but here I am. I love this tuning so much. Emin7Add9 is great as well

AAAAAA tuning - it... it screams.

My favorite alternate tuning I discovered was popularized by Third Eye Blind and used in Wounded DADEAC#

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL CAUSE I KEEP FINDING THINGS LIKE THIS TO HAVE FUN WITH WOOOO

I've been playing DACEAD for a while now, and it's brilliant. You get easy chord shapes in the low strings with using 1 or 2 fingers, while still having 2-3 fingers free for melodies on the more traditional high strings.

I sometimes use a really easy but weird tuning, EADGBB, the last B is just a little off from the first one to get a dissonant sound, I use it when I’m doing finger picking at Renaissance fairs, gives a sea chanty vibe

Ghost Reveries is actually the album, try the Opeth song Ghost of Perdition from that album to hear DADFAE tuning.

A cool tuning I came up with recently was B, Fb, Cb, Gb, B, Cb. And for bass I play on a 7 string bass tuned in Cb, E, Gb, Cb, Fb, B, E.

7:25 I always heard this tuning the negative, aggressive, sad way, and you made it like a positive and happy, hopeful sound

The rain song tuning: D G C G C D used by Jimmy page on 'the rain song'

Have you ever done a video on Open D5 tuning (DADADD)? The only guitarist that I know of that uses this tuning is Mark Tremonti. I think this tuning is great. It can sound so beautiful but can also sound so evil.

I think I'm gonna try to tune one of my guitars to the Ichika tuning. It just sounds so good I'm amazed. Sadly I think it would put too much pressure on the strings. Well it's time to go do some research.

Every time I blinked there was a new guitar! You are truly living on the edge.

7:14 ah yes, GHOST Reveries, my favourite opith song.

I Like This Sound... Awesome

There is one that I came up with when my ukulele went way out of tune and I never play it. I was just seeing what tuning it had landed on. It was realy cool and I wanted to play it on my guitar (to not get laughed at while playing live) the tuning is C G D# and everything else standard. You can actually play joni mitchell realy well with a c shape chord which is nice. Anyway thanks for the video! Realy cool

I’m a fan of DADADD or down half a step from this too. The top two strings can ring out or the a string used and the top string ring out. Nice and open feel to it.

The four dislikes are from people who don’t have fingers

This tuning is by far the WEIRDEST. I only know of it being used in one song. Its Incinerate by Sonic Youth. The tuning goes: D# D# A# D# G g. Check it out the song slaps.

Didn't know you had mastered canning, Tyler. Some tasty jams you"ve got there.

Listening to you playing the ethereal tuning, geez it inspires and demotivates me. Like, how can you come up with such beautiful progressions? But also, I want to be able to do the same. Im conflicted. Ill play around with it. I appreciate this video. As late as I am listening.

I remember 30 years ago trying to figure out the chords on velvet underground and Nico and I could never get the freaking sound right because I had no idea what the hell he was doing.

I just want to shout out opeth!!! They have a song in DADFAE and a song in AADGBE

This is an awesome vid. Thanks. ...why weren't you around in 1984 when I was serious about guitar? ...(???)

one of my faves FACGCE ive only seen it used once but i use it to write songs all the time

I use open Csus2 for some tasty heavy music, CGCGCD. Devin townsend uses this as well.

yeah, think i'll stuck with my standard/drop d

That DADFAE tuning makes using all kinds of different chord types so easily accessible. I learned Ghost Reveries and learned a ton about how to use that tuning just in that one song

I enjoy the “djent” tunings, you basically do a 7 string tuning on a 6 string minus the low E string. An example would be (low to high) AGCFAD or GGCFAD

C G C G C D, a really cool acoustic sound 👌

Stephen Stills uses EEEEBE on “Carry on”, which sounds like a got dang freight train.

So glad I clicked on this video. One of my favorite alternate tunings is the one Chris Cornell used for the song, "Seasons". Like a guitar sitting in a Washington State log cabin for a winter. When you listen to that song, get every string tuned right, you will see what I mean.

I really enjoy BADGBe because it makes the guitar have a larger range. Plus, two finger power chords become octaves (alter bridge uses this quite a bit, all be it, a half a step down)

Ethereal: "This may be the most aptly named of all the tunings on this list." I disagree: CABBAGE is most aptly named. Not only does it spell out the tuning but everything you play in that tuning sounds like cabbage.

GHOST REVERIES ISN’T A SONG IT’S AN ALBUM

Not sure if you covered this one, but Joe Beck, Frank Gambale, and Pat Metheny have all used a variation of a "Baritone Nashville" tuning. The only differences between the three players is how low or high the tuning is, but the relative tuning between the strings is the same. One example is Metheny's tuning on "Don't Know Why," (watch?v=BntNRMiI4PQ) which is A1-D2-G3-C4-E3-A3. The 3rd & 4th strings are an octave higher than they would normally be (like in Nashville tuning), and the 5th and 6th are an octave down. Super cool tuning for solo stuff, as it has a wide range. Craft guitar tuning (if you didn't cover it): C-G-D-A-E-G. All fifths except between 2 and 1. Very wide tuning that's quite versatile. California Guitar Trio. My variation of that, plus adding a David Wilcox tuning of C-G-C-G-C-E: C-G-C-G-C-F. Really versatile and great for solo stuff. I play "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" in that tuning.

My tuning I accidentally invented I was playing Cradle of Filth and came up with a way to play solos a little bit easier. D or E A D tuned down a fret? Maybe C#? G tuned down a fret? Maybe F# B E Sometimes I would use a version of that tuning in standard D or drop C tuning the idea of it being it takes that major scale and makes it easier to play on the first four strings kind of like I'll lead guitar tuning and my idea being standard tuning is a rhythm guitar tuning. It's weird getting used to but it does make solos more simplified, you don't have to move your hand very much but you have to play power chords on the 5th string with your pinky. Also makes any scale you play with strings 1 through 4 really linear I feel.. almost like your strings 1 through 4 become a bass guitar as far as scales go if that makes sense For me playing power chords up there like that was a little bit more comfortable because I already do Suicide Silence diminished riffs on my 7-string with a similar tuning. I'll have to try out that C sharp F C sharp F tuning with a 9 string I'm about to get.. that's sick as fuck!!

The true weirdest tuning is whats left after I try to tune by ear

2:47 that sounds like a dimebag solo

I wrote an acoustic song years ago in CGCCCC its an interesting tuning to mess around with. Cheers!

Thank you for recommending shawn lane!!! Dude is awesome

I was going to say CABBAGE but you already covered that so here is EGABBAC

2:58 ICHIKA NITO

Ah alternate tunings are my trick bag. Keep them coming dude.

I sometimes tune to an open d minor because you can slide major and minor chords around the fretboard

1. Any Nick Drake tuning

Want weird tunings, just listen to any Sonic youth record. That's their specialty

I tune my baritone to GbDGCGbG. I took Sevendust's tuning BbGbBEAbDb, dropped it down to Gb, and changed my 2 high strings to Gb and G for dissonance.

Try this awesome low tuning i've invented: A E A F# A C# (you can transpose it however you want. I tuned it in this way due to tension problems on my classic guitar. I am using this tuning all the time btw)