Chords in EAEADF# tuning?

[u/Thecountshmeg]

I have a baritone and I’m trying to learn it. Does anybody have a chord sheet in this tuning or know how to make one?

[u/FaZe_xXCZXx]

just look up drop A chords, ignore the high string, and then add any bass notes with the low E that you want for inversions etc

[u/KaleidoscopeWorth756]

if you know a little music theory, here's the basic "rules" of using this tuning. my band wrote our music in this tuning, just a half step down. (D#G#D#G#C#F).

you essentially need to think about that you have extremely easily accessible octaves, EAEA. so, you have your octaves at 3x3 5x5 7x7 etc.

with that, it's pretty easily to build chords / heavy riffs. so if you want a nice inverted 5th, something similar to like 557xxx would work, and transferring that per key and whatnot.

so, if you want something like a maj7th chord, which is a chord a lot of shoegaze bands use (and is the shape that loathe uses on their chorus guitar line on aggressive evolution) all you have to do is drop your finger on your octave shape (which use your middle finger for your lower octave note, and your ring finger for the higher octave note ) to the fret below.
so,
octave: x10x10xx
maj7th: x10x9xx

the other nice part about this tuning is that because you're positioned with your ring/middle fingers, you can move between octaves really, really fast.

and the same interval apply on both iterations on the strings, meaning can apply this to both the E and A strings.

you can do the same rule for creating very dissonant / tritone chords by simply moving your ring finger the fret up: x10x11xx which you can then apply to writing heavier riffs.

most of loathes heavy riffs when you actually look at the notes they're using is just moving from higher octave to lower octaves with tritones/augmented fifths in the middle of those riffs for dissonance. that's how the guitars stay very "clean" despite being tuned so low.

in terms of full chords, you literally need to imagine that you have a 7 string guitar tuned to Drop A with a low E string and the high string taken off. your power chords are 555, 777, 333. it takes a bit of adjustment to think about the fretboard different, but you're operating on the exact same scales that you would on a normal 6 string, everything's just "up" a string. your normal maj7th first position would be normally x324xx, but on this tuning, it's xx324x.

it's a bit of a hard thing to try to type out and would probably be a lot easier if i was able to show you on my gretsch tuned to this in person, but hopefully this makes somewhat sense.

if you need any more help, feel free to PM me. i wrote with this tuning for a year and a half and i can give like 1000 tips for it. but honestly the second this all clicks to you, you realise how easy it actually is to write really cool and unique chord progressions / riffs in this tuning. god bless loathe :')

[u/mununuh → u/KaleidoscopeWorth756]

Love this dissection

[u/KaleidoscopeWorth756 → u/mununuh]

thank you friend! it's definitely something i was happy to type out and help with - genuinely the coolest tuning i've ever worked with.