"Ba r r y" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:41:14 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:


All right - you opened that box... what is that dissonant pair that those
guys and others like them use?

"Evil" stuff is usually played in minor keys, and sometimes with a
flat fifth. Some hard rock bands tune a half or whole step lower,
which gives the whole thing a gruntier sound. The "E" string on a
guitar would actually be tuned to an "Eb" or "D", and the rest of the
instrument is tuned to match.

I'm going to try some flattened 5th stuff and see what it does. The sound
you hear in a lot of the dissonant stuff today is definetely more than just
drop tuning and it's something other than the standard 3rd or 5th for
harmony.

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-Mike-