Recent content by C Nolan

I've almost always used a 5 string for anything lower than E, some songs are a bit tricky because of the original riff needing drop D for easier finger positions, but i've mostly seen it as an extra challenge to find a way to do it on the 5. If I find I simply can't play it on the 5 string I...

The irony... is that people who think this thread is about mocking downtuning don't understand what this thread is about. Downtune all you want. But when you do, be sure to remember that you are downtuned.

Finally someone who understands what I was trying to say.

I think it depends in what way they're better than you. If it's something like technique/ tone/groove then I want to improve my playing to their standard. If they're playing more complex fills or something along those lines then it's best to just enjoy what they're doing and think no more about...

You're making out as though I was being awkward arguing over what the name of the note was, I wasn't. The guitarist wasn't puzzled as to how to respond to me so they could get back to playing the song because they hadn't learnt the song and I was the one trying to show them how to play it. I...

No keys, no previous bassist it's a project that i've been part of setting up in a genre that not many people want to play where I live. There's little niggles like this one but I get on really well with the guys so it's worth sticking with. Alot of these replies have been quite interesting...

I get where everyone is coming from when they say I should just downtune with the band and then we can just forget we're downtuned and call the notes as normal. The problem is that our setlist contains a whole mixture of songs where the original guitars were in E, Eb, D and drop D. So if I...

They're top guys as in I get on with them, not that they're amazing musicians. You can probably tell that the band isn't professional by the fact that the guitarist doesn't know what a key signature is.

Nothing is difficult about it, but it's nice to be able to turn up knowing the parts exactly ad they will be played not having to adjust on the fly. I know they're going to be tuned to Eb, but I don't know if that means they will play the song half a step down from the recording we've referenced...

Definitely not looking to change bands, they're top guys, this is the only issue. It's frustrating though, we're putting together a setlist of songs with original versions in a host different tunings. To keep things simple, we've agreed the guitars will stay tuned to Eb. The problem is that I...

Yeah, it must be frustrating but I guess it's the norm for them. Seems i'll just have to get used to transposing off the cuff.

Yes exactly, and confusing the tuning they're in as the key for what they're playing, obviously sometimes it is both the tuning and the key. I play 5 string so if I can get away without downtuning I will, but I find myself learning songs as per a recording then when we play as a group the...

I find quite often that when guitarists tune to Eb/ D / drop D it causes a couple of problems. 1st is when trying to teach them a chord progression they treat the fretboard as if they were still in standard tuning, so for example you tell them to play an A and they play 5th fret on the E string...