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"Slipknot tuning...Eh? (Ignore if u can't play guitar!)"

Today i picked up an old guitar mag and found a song by slipknot tabbed out. I decided to give it a go. Since they're a grunge band, i guessed it would be in drop D tuning. I played the song through and thought it sounded ok, then tried it with the backing track on the CD. I have only just realised why it sounded so wrong: You DO drop D....then take every single string down a further 3 frets!!! It's MAD! The bottom string goes down to a B for christs sake!!! And a warning to all guitarists: NEVER play ANYTHING by slipknot unless your string gauge is at least [.053-.014]. Plus the tempo of this song (people=) is 237 bpm! So really all in all, being able to play at this pitch and speed seems to make slipknot a pretty talented bunch...

Any thoughts?

Judah Ben-Hur wrote: It IS pointless, haven't you heard of Avril Lavigne?

The brits:
1 bassist.
2 guitarists.
15 drummers.

Point?

Mess wrote:
> I love the sound Slipknot get out of two drummers. My dad says it's
> pointless and you might as well have just one, but he hasn't heard any
> of their stuff.

It IS pointless, haven't you heard of Avril Lavigne?

All the people with awful musical tastes are coming out the woodwork now.

*schemes*

*forgets how to spell*

*revises atop a salmon*

I love the sound Slipknot get out of two drummers. My dad says it's pointless and you might as well have just one, but he hasn't heard any of their stuff.

Yeah, ive got it. I don't really listen to it much. The main song that I got it for was My Plague. That song rules! :D

Anyone here have the slipknot album "IOWA"? I ordered it a few days ago. Best songs: Left Behind and People =

Depends on the publisher of the tab book. Music Sales stuff is generally pretty decent, as its often done with the band. Especially Coldplay stuff and their unusual tunings.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
>The guitar that Mick Thompson uses is a BC Rich
> Warlock and his signature one, like the one he plays, is just a 6
> stringer. I can't remember off the top of my head what Root plays. But
> it just tuned down.

On EVERY Slipknot song and on stage Root plays a:

Jackson SLP guitar (6 stringer) through a Mesa/Boogie DC10 head and Mesa/Carvin 4x12 cabs, supplemented by a Dunlop Rotovibe and a Digitech Whammy pedal.

Thomson uses his custom BC Rich Warlock guitar (Definatly a 6 stringer!!!) into a Marshall JMP 1 programmable tube preamp, feeding a Mesa/Boogie Simulclass 2:95/0 power amp, with a Boss GX700 effects unit.

monkey_man wrote:
> Some tab books rip you off because they
> just put "Ad. Lib", or "Effects" in places where
> the tabber can't figure it out. Fact.

That's pretty lame of them!

They aren't all such lazy goits though. I found a complete tab for Eddie van Halen's solo in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" on the internet.

Needless to say I can't play it, but it was still an impressive bit of guitar work to tab out.