VS tabs

[Rune]

On the photographed setlist from the Effenaar gig you can see the tuning of Bent's guitar next to V.S.

I tried to play around a little yesterday, but I make no sense out of this at all.

Anyone here competent enough to figure out how to play VS with the tuning they use?

edit: this is not news, btw. It's also written down here on the website where all the tunings are listed, but I hadn't seen it before.

[otherdemon]

Nevermind.

[supernaut]

Considering Bent has his strings upside down, this is simply a drop D tuning. Still weird though, because VS is very easy to play in standard tuning. Maybe they don't play it in its original key anymore and have gone one step lower due to hard vocal parts… but in that case they could tune all guitars one step down. Oh darn, now I'm puzzled.

[Rune]

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Maybe they don't play it in its original key anymore and have gone one step lower due to hard vocal parts… but in that case they could tune all guitars one step down. Oh darn, now I'm puzzled.

This is nothing new, though, like I said. Check this link: http://www.motorpsycho.fix.no/musicbox/guitartab/tuning.html

Same tuning.

[leucocyte]

Not quite sure why they use that tuning to play it, it can easily be played in D standard. Maybe it's because they have other songs in that tuning (thinking of Serpentine and S.T.G.) and they didn't want a guitar especially for that song, or because the fingering is easier for Bent to use… But there's a really good tab for Vortex Surfer on the site, it's this one.

[supernaut]

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Considering Bent has his strings upside down, this is simply a drop D tuning.

oops I had D and G wrong. I thought it's a drop D tuning if read from right to left considering Bents upside down stringing, but well… it's not.

It's probably an economic issue like leucocyte wrote. Have too many guitars, can't travel.

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