Alternate Tunings

I am a pretty EADGBE as well, better still if all on open strings. LOL. However, the (guitar praise and worship) books I bought also included DADBGE and I am beginning to like this dropped-D tuning too. The tune I like best with it though had to be Canon in D. Personally, I only had half a year of guitar training, so how I wish I had persevere then and learn proper theory. Maybe I could be transposing or even composing tunes by now. Hey, if you are interested to play chord melodies, don't forget to drop by www.lickbyneck.com This is NOT my website but I will check daily to see if the owner has posted easy-enough tunes for playing. Enjoy.

I like playing in D! Dadgbe! It's really nice for power chords be cause you can lay your finger right across 1 fret instead of spreading your fingers apart... It reduces your chances of messing up by a lot

I've played a few pieces in D but that was quite a long time ago and just because I wanted to learn a Queensryche song and one by Dave Uhrich, plus my teacher wrote one in D that really was gorgeous. I don't mind at all playing in standard, it's a pain to re-tune for other tuning but I'll do it if I like the song well enough. I really should pick up my guitar again, I haven't had any music in me for about 5 years. Poor Strat just sits there and waits silently but it used to call to me. Oh well..

Like you, I usually only play with the standard tuning, but recently I got a metal slide tube for my guitar so I've been experiencing with some slide guitar. I've found a couple different songs and they both require different, non-standard tunings. I don't remember what exactly they are, but I like them! It's cool to be able to just do an open strum on an alternate tuning and get an actual chord from it!