Neurosis Tuning
“How do you arrange the guitars?
Von Till: We weave in and out of each other’s riffs, coming together when we need a dual attack. If we become aware of a pattern, we throw it out the window. I have a tone and playing style that lends itself to droning open notes, whereas Scott anchors the sound with his heavy riffs. We experiment with harmonies, dissonance, feedback, and ugliness, and we love going back and forth to see how much tension we can create. Scott stays in drop-D tuning, and commonly drops his low E string down to an A. I play in DADGAD—except for any songs that are in the key of A—and I drop the low D down to an A so that I have an octave in A on the bottom two strings. We use a custom .011-.058 gauge set of GHS strings, because they’re real sturdy with the drop tunings.”
That is one of the oddest tunings I’ve come across. Dropping the E string to an A while keeping the rest in either E or DADGAD. I’m gonna have to try this, though I don’t know if my guitar can handle dropping the E so damn low.
