Originally posted by germcevoywhy the feck can't he (supposedly) work out the sound to Ultraviolet again?
Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
I Will Follow was retained in E for Vertigo too
Just to say (in case it's what you thought, if it isn't I apologise ), I didn't mean I don't understand the whole tuning lark (i.e. I know most guitars are in standard tuning - unless of course you meant most of Edge's guitars are in standard E), I myself tune all my guitars to Eb because I'm perfectly comfortable with sticking the capo on the 1st fret, but a lot of my friends seem to have trouble using capos lol!).
PS: since you brought it up lol, open E - is that as in where the strings are tuned to the chord of E, e.g. for slide guitar?
NB - In case we're getting in a kefuffle, I usually refer to songs in the actual key they're in rather than the tuning, which I'm guessing you're talking about because SBS was not played (key-wise) in Eb or Db lol...
I was interested to read about what you said re. ISHFWILF, I always wondered how they worked out the guitar part because I remember it was one of the songs I first tried to learn when I took up guitar (chords I mean, rather than the actual bit Edge plays live - I only worked out how to play that a couple of months ago!), but it irritated because I worked out the song itself was in Db, but at the time I hadn't encountered alternative tunings and capos etc.! As ever Jeff, you throw up some great bits of info!
Originally posted by anstratdubh1979
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...I also used to tune my guitar to E-flat and simply capo at the first fret for anything in E. (being that I like play along to U2 DVDs and such...) That was how I did things when I only had one electric and an acoustic... now that I've a few more... I've had them set up to be tuning specific.
- My Explorer is in E-flat. (Most U2 songs with the Explorer were in E-flat. Although "I Will Follow was bumped to E and I am pretty sure that Miracle Drug was in standard E too.)
- My Clapton Strat is in E flat.
- My Tele Custom is in standard E
- Epiphone Music Rising is in standard E
- My 6-string Ric is tune (low to high) D-A-D-A-C-E, as I've wrote a few tunes in that tuning.
- My 6-string Danelectro is in Open D (which I can also capo at the 2nd fret for open E, ala many tunes on Bob Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks".
- My 12-string Danelectro is in E-flat.
- My 12-string Gibson J185 acoustic is in E-flat.
- I change the tuning of my Taylor Big Baby and Washburn EA20 all the time.
Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
Ideally, I want to one day have something similar to that, but for the moment I leave everything in Eb. Well, I say everything, that's 2 electrics and a semi-acoustic lol. The Epi. LP Custom I just got, my Ridgewood Strat. (I like playing AIWIY and Streets on that, because neither song sounds right when played through humbuckers) and the Ridgewood semi-acoustic, which doesn't really sound great through an amp but I don't usually expect it to! I also steal my mum's acoustic (which is like a 3/4 size or something? There's some term for it, apparently, plays quite nicely though ) because she leaves that in standard tuning, or rather is not particularly interested in guitars, but she wanted to try and learn but apparently it does her neck in? So I play it the most out of all of us
Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]
The Edge has played "All I Want Is You" on one of the many Stratocasters, for the most part but there have been occasions where he's used a Gretsch Country Gentleman and it sounds great.
The Omagh Tribute show comes to mind.
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But I can see where you'd prefer the tone of a Strat-like guitar to a Les Paul.
Originally posted by anstratdubh1979Here's something cool that I have that I treasure...
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Edge doesn't actually play with the purple ones. The blue one was Edge used, as can be seen by the wear.
Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
Indeed, I just find the thinner tone of the singles suits the actual tone, i.e. the relatively clean delay effect. When I run it through the Epi., it crackles at random points and muffles up too much for my liking but I do remember watching that tribute show recently and noting that he used a Gretsch.
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Does Edge play them back to front or something? I noticed on the blue pick you have that the "grip" area looks scratched up compared to the point which seems pristine. I think I read it somewhere else before, but do you know anymore about how he actually holds picks?
Originally posted by anstratdubh1979[..]
Yep, playing with the grip side striking the strings is THE "Secret of the Edge Ching".
Originally posted by WojBhoy[..]
Do you play the same way when playing U2 stuff then, per chance? Or do you just play however your technique goes?