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First songs to use tunings

coasterdude420|205

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Hey out of interest does anyone know what the first songs to use various tunings were. Drop D, then drop C# then drop C etc all the way down to Drop E0, or Eb standard all the way down to two octaves down? It would be an interesting way to look at the evolution of music and how many “metal” ideas derive from the blues.

almost 4 years ago

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michael|42641 ADMIN

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In reply to coasterdude420:

Great question. I have no idea.

almost 4 years ago

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thcraymer|910

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Not really sure, but for various medieval instruments such as the Arabic oud, the lowest string is C and not E (the tuning also varied between different regions and cultural groups, but the "standard" tuning is C, F, A, D, G, c).

In rock music, the earliest example I can think of who used multiple different and unconventional tunings is folk artist Nick Drake, whose sound pretty much revolved around them, I'm pretty sure some of them were drop tunings at least. There is also Keith Richards, but as far as I know he stuck with open G tuning on 5 strings, with the low E string removed, so it wasn't really a drop tuning.

almost 4 years ago

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coasterdude420|205

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I know Dear Prudence was probably first to use Drop D and unchained was likely first to to use Drop C#, am I right or were there earlier uses

almost 4 years ago

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First songs to use tunings

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