Whir Guitar Tuning

[GreenDogGlynis]

Do you use standard tuning to play Whir? I was trying it tonight and it didn't sound right. I'm pretty new to guitar but can play a little. Does anyone know?

[Joey Goldberg]

why don't you try Billy's instagram Q&A? he seems very tolerant on such questions

[GreenDogGlynis]

I'd be happy to try but i have no clue how to message on instagram

[Ram27]

i thought whir was in standard?

dolly vita has the A dropped to a G IIRC

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by Joey Goldberg

why don't you try Billy's instagram Q&A? he seems very tolerant on such questions

very very rarely he gives real answers about guitar tech stuff [practice scales w/ eyes closed, etc] and it's so irritating because if he just acted like a normal human being i wouldn't have to hate him

[GreenDogGlynis]

Cool. Im sure im just playing it wrong

[houseofglass11]

It's in standard, you can tell by the way outro chords ring out. The chorus chord shapes are something I've never been 100% sure of and I've seen them tabbed like this:

4x4400
4x6600
2x4400

which seems accurate enough, but does anyone else have a different idea?

[redbreegull]

I don't know the whole song... it's got a lot of open strings and it gets hard to figure out what's happening. definitely standard tuning though. something that fucked me up when I was trying to learn this early on was that I didn't understand how important it is to hit those bass notes in the intro. that's what gives the guitar the melody. there's a lot of harmonic washout in the rest of the strings

[GreenDogGlynis]

Thanks, Everybody. Appreciate the help

[Funbags]

[smashingjj]

you calling me a FAEG#?

[Funbags]

No, I'm calling you a EAEG#BE

[smashingjj]

fair enough

[Cool As Ice Cream]

rude!

[Cool As Ice Cream]

an aege#b is even worse than an aege#a

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Funbags

oh cool. I wonder if Billy plays Whir in the same tuning or if they use different tunings like in Mayo

[Ram27]

huh. that's interesting

i remember from a tab doesn't james just play a little lead thing that's all octave chords?

[themadcaplaughs]

They played a bunch of songs on that tour in different tunings from the studio versions. Off the top of my head, I know they played "Mary Star of the Sea" in an open tuning (DADGAD I think). If I'm reading the set list right, it says to tune "Rocket" and "Soma" to the Nashville tuning, when those songs are both in standard tuning on the album.

[trev]

is nashville a tuning or the type of 12 string guitar?

[run2pee]

Originally Posted by themadcaplaughs

They played a bunch of songs on that tour in different tunings from the studio versions. Off the top of my head, I know they played "Mary Star of the Sea" in an open tuning (DADGAD I think). If I'm reading the set list right, it says to tune "Rocket" and "Soma" to the Nashville tuning, when those songs are both in standard tuning on the album.

Can confirm whir sounded a lil weird/off at the show we saw of that tour

But could probably just be jeffs fault

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by trev

is nashville a tuning or the type of 12 string guitar?

https://www.premierguitar.com/articl...shville_Tuning

i am confused reading that tho cause he is playing a 12 string for the songs --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgkpRJglyRg which defeats the purpose, i think

originally i was gonna make a shitty joke after reading the setlist that it was silly to write two sets of quotes to repeat a whole line, but that makes more sense knowing it's a tuning thing [hence same guitar, same tuning]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

Can confirm whir sounded a lil weird/off at the show we saw of that tour

But could probably just be jeffs fault

hahaha +++

[Funbags]

Originally Posted by themadcaplaughs

They played a bunch of songs on that tour in different tunings from the studio versions. Off the top of my head, I know they played "Mary Star of the Sea" in an open tuning (DADGAD I think). If I'm reading the set list right, it says to tune "Rocket" and "Soma" to the Nashville tuning, when those songs are both in standard tuning on the album.

I just tuned to the setlist tuning and it seems right:

The verse riff uses the chords:
e----0---0---0---
b----0---0---0---
G#---3---0---1---
E----0---0---0---
A----2---2---0---
E----0---0---x---

The chorus is maybe:
e----0---0---0---
b----0---0---0---
G#---0---0---0---
E----0---0---0---
A----6---2---4---
E----4---0---2---

I'd have to watch the live video/listen to the song again to confirm.

[Funbags]

Can someone verify?