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Originally Posted by TheOriginalJez
I fail to follow this thread... the whole debate about downtuning is from the studio version and usually to attack Jon's lack of vocal ability, not the tuning of the guitars... standard tuning is pretty arbitrary - it's common for different styles of music to use different tuning from the barely different like drop d to different major, minor, modal, extended tunings - many of which are actually easier to play than standard tuning, depending on what you're doing...
If you're playing a few very basic songs in Eb or D it kinda makes sense to downtune your guitar for ease, but I'm unsure as to why this is a point to debate in quite this way? I can understand if you're just analysing the play but I don't see what the critical point is at all?
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It's just something I find interesting. Tuning down guitars a full step will make things easier for Jon to handle vocally and was kicked around as an idea for the last few years. It means Jon's voice is at a point where they need to occasionally tune down a full step. I didn't do this to be critical of the condition, there were people saying the music would sound too sluggish and low to sound good and from what I can tell it sounds okay. The whole point was this is a new tuning for the band.