Raised B Tuning? How do you do it?

[npfsu]

I'd like to be able to tune my spare guitar to raised B tuning so I can accurately play Stay or Leave (without the capo). I have a chromatic tuner and I tried raising all of strings, to (B-E-A-D-F#-B) but it didn’t work. I tightened them WAY too much and the strings broke. (Which by the way, if you have never tightened a string to the point that it breaks, it is scary!!! You know it is going to break, but you don’t know when! Very suspenseful)

How do I do it? Thanks a lot!

B-E-A-D-F#-B

[GeorgeJr.]

please make use of the search function on the upper right potrion of your screen

being new, you may not know that this has been covered many many times

good luck

[som3d3vil34]

http://www.dmbtabs.com/faq.php?id=7

[GeorgeJr.]

you're too nice

i was trying to teach him how to fish if you know what i mean

[npfsu]

please make use of the search function on the upper right potrion of your screen

being new, you may not know that this has been covered many many times

good luck

Yeah - I'll do that. Thanks for the help.

[npfsu]

http://www.dmbtabs.com/faq.php?id=7

Thanks for your help. This answers my question. Not everybody on the boards are as nice as you are. Other people would rather force you to fish for the answer.

[mojo1210]

you're too nice

i was trying to teach him how to fish if you know what i mean

and you're a dick :thumbsup

[GeorgeJr.]

please make use of the search function on the upper right potrion of your screen

being new, you may not know that this has been covered many many times

good luck

you're too nice

i was trying to teach him how to fish if you know what i mean

and you're a dick :thumbsup


how about this: go fuck yourself asshole

[bubba40]

Capo 7

[npfsu]

how about this: go fuck yourself asshole

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[npfsu]

Capo 7

Thanks Bro. This is how I have been playing it and I like it. I recently purchased a new guitar and wanted to try to do the real thing. (It sounds like a lot of work though!)

[mojo1210]

how about this: go fuck yourself asshole
:lol

[bubba40]

Thanks Bro. This is how I have been playing it and I like it. I recently purchased a new guitar and wanted to try to do the real thing. (It sounds like a lot of work though!)

Yeah strings on a standard-tuned guitar are going to be torn apart if you try and tune them up to raised B. Just capoing 7 is a heck of a lot easier, and there's no wear on the guitar's neck or strings.

[GeorgeJr.]

and you're a dick :thumbsup
yeah, trying to get a newbie to follow the site rules = being a dick

if your going to call me one i might as well fit the bill

[samelliott]

Wow - it is great to meet a Dave Matthews Band fan who truly grasps and understands the ideology and themes of the band. It is clear that you are not only a fan, but you are also an ambassador of the Dave Matthews Band; striving to share and maintain the love for other people. Keep up the good work!

PS - You might want to try listening to Tripping Billies (Eat, drink and be merry – for tomorrow will die), You might Die Trying (If you give, then you live, you get the world)... just to name a few.


Well said!

[jcc522]

Capo on 7

[jiggajm18]

Thanks Bro. This is how I have been playing it and I like it. I recently purchased a new guitar and wanted to try to do the real thing. (It sounds like a lot of work though!)

IMO, i wouldnt re-string a new guitar into raised B tuning. b/c after awhile, the sound of the guitar itself will get out of whack if you ever want to put it back into standard tuning. basically, all i'm saying is that once you restring a guitar into raised-B, it would be best to always leave it in raised B

[GeorgeJr.]

IMO, i wouldnt re-string a new guitar into raised B tuning. b/c after awhile, the sound of the guitar itself will get out of whack if you ever want to put it back into standard tuning. basically, all i'm saying is that once you restring a guitar into raised-B, it would be best to always leave it in raised B

can you please justify this statement

i believe it to be untrue. by putting on the lighter gauge strings in the order descibed the tension isn't great enought to deform the neck

[jiggajm18]

at the guitar shop i usually go to, one of the guys who works there (used to be a luthier so i guess he's legit) said that after time the pitch of the guitar would change

[GeorgeJr.]

at the guitar shop i usually go to, one of the guys who works there (used to be a luthier so i guess he's legit) said that after time the pitch of the guitar would change
that doesn't make sense to me

pitch :

Frequency is synonymous to pitch. Sounds have a pitch which is peculiar to the nature of the sound generator. For example, the sound of a tiny bell has a high pitch and the sound of a bass drum has a low pitch. Frequency or pitch can be measured on a scale in units of Hertz or Hz.


based on what you said the tuning and strings would actually have to change the dynamic makeup of the body of the guitar and/or neck

i'm not sure that you guitar shop buddy is correct in his assesment

[chr35919]

based on what you said the tuning and strings would actually have to change the dynamic makeup of the body of the guitar and/or neck

i'm not sure that you guitar shop buddy is correct in his assesmenti thought it was pretty much known that raised b fucks up a guitar's neck eventually...

[jiggajm18]

http://www.dmbtabs.com/faq.php?id=7

[GeorgeJr.]

i thought it was pretty much known that raised b fucks up a guitar's neck eventually...
do you mean that the tension is so great that the stress will warp the neck permenantly ?

I did not know that to be true

[VanHorneDog]

i prefer low B tuning.

[dispatch17]

this is a great site for tuning i use http://www.get-tuned.com/guitar_tuner.php

[Munford]

Thanks for the link, I'll be using that..

[GSUdawg521]

Video tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk0SnP_THeA

[MGH4007]

go to tour central and then go to the road crew question and answer, they give you the gauges