Playing With Teeth Question

[joelk]

The tabs I find for this are often wrong, especially if you watch Buzz play it. It seems like he takes the C from fret 3 and bringsa it up to a single string , muted noise riff on fret 10 (a string). But unlike the tabs that move you from fret 3 to fret 2 (power chord), going down from the a string 10th fret to 9th fret doesn;t sound right. Anyone know what he's doing here to make the b chord part of that riff?

[Dumpster D]

Dont depend on tabs, Just use your ear. you will pick things up quicker.

Second, Call me a crazy Lunatic, but I want you to try something and get back to me on this: Try tuning down to open G (slide guitar blues tuning) but then Drop the D down again so its like double Drop D kinda.  Try playing some of the opening riffs from LYSOL in that tuning while barring the notes and listen to the way it resonates..do you think its how Buzz gets some of those chords to sound dissonant?  Its an interesting trick and It would not surprise me if this was the tuning.

I could be completely wrong but Im playing with teeth and it seems to work in this tuning but I am probly mistaken, I dont see them playing Dwight fry in open G tuning so...need another opinion.

You are right about the way it sounds different and I noticed the same thing the way I was playing compared to the way it sounds on the recording.

[Wenander]

The tabs I find for this are often wrong, especially if you watch Buzz play it. It seems like he takes the C from fret 3 and bringsa it up to a single string , muted noise riff on fret 10 (a string). But unlike the tabs that move you from fret 3 to fret 2 (power chord), going down from the a string 10th fret to 9th fret doesn;t sound right. Anyone know what he's doing here to make the b chord part of that riff?

Dont depend on tabs, Just use your ear. you will pick things up quicker.

Second, Call me a crazy Lunatic, but I want you to try something and get back to me on this: Try tuning down to open G (slide guitar blues tuning) but then Drop the D down again so its like double Drop D kinda.  Try playing some of the opening riffs from LYSOL in that tuning while barring the notes and listen to the way it resonates..do you think its how Buzz gets some of those chords to sound dissonant?  Its an interesting trick and It would not surprise me if this was the tuning.

I could be completely wrong but Im playing with teeth and it seems to work in this tuning but I am probly mistaken, I dont see them playing Dwight fry in open G tuning so...need another opinion.

You are right about the way it sounds different and I noticed the same thing the way I was playing compared to the way it sounds on the recording.

Sorry for waking up this dead thread but this is kind of suprising to just stop after 2 posts.

I heard about buzzos use of the CGdgbe tuning a while after bride screamed murder and it was by chance on instagram, someone did the water glass riff perfectly ONCE !  And i just lost my jaw first and just watched that few seconds long clip of that riff again and again, finally i ended up here, where i finally found the tuning, the insta clip did not reveal anything or even answer questions. 

So i played around with that tuning and searched for waterglass tabs, found a good one but a short while after i got bored and forgot about it all

But now after Buzz did "riff lords" on Gibson Youtube channel i get how all those songs by melvins that i never could get close to sounding right, HEHE i think i have looked at  EVERY tab in existance for "Amazon"  ten times over and maybe some of them had the CG... tuning included but the sequence of those notes/chords never was correct and i couldnt figure it out...everything i tried sounded way off.... But now i can play that amazing crazy song  and it´s so easy with the "double-drop-D" tuning as you called it... 


And that´s very fitting .... hehe.  I tried dropping the high E-string to D and it works...i know that doing this in regular drop D is called "double drop d"   

ok, C G D G B D  haha
So now  there´s two-string one-finger chords EVERYWHERE.   The now High D and second string B doesnt do a powerchord, but lots of interesting unfamiliar sounds that is perfect to fiddle around with =)  Well i know jack shit about chord theory but i think a straight B and D note has some fancy name ...

hope this thread springs to life ... there are still lots of melv songs i can´t quite figure out.

[amazonAMAZON]

B->D should just be a minor third. Never tried this tuning myself.

[Wenander]

B->D should just be a minor third. Never tried this tuning myself.

Hehe i knew it was a name to it =)