Fun fact- when I was in high school. I had a wall in my room dedicated to Korn lol I would get every mention or photos from magazines and post it up there. I was in love with Jonathan Davis 
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I had my wall full of metal bands/80s artists that I’d get from music magazines.
I was crazy about music magz!
Revolver/circus/etc.
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Saw them yesterday, crazy good
CELESTE: De tes yeux bleus perlés
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Unpopular opinion,
I’m not a huge Korn fan. Never was, I mean I liked their debut and follow the leader, but was always a mere meh, about them.
Another fun fact about Korn, they play Ibanez 7 string guitars, the extra top string is tuned to a low B like a 5 string bass. This concept was developed for Steve Vai, and it didn’t take off. Bands like Korn found all these guitars in pawn shops all over the nation and took off with them and created an entirely new sound,
Jen I know your not too far off of me when it comes to age. Maybe 2 years? But I was more into Hanson and *NSYNC ok totally lying, but I was still rocking the grunge of the 90s, nirvana, sound garden Alice In Chains, stuff like that
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I appreciate the guitar fact. Didn’t know that!
My best friend loved Hansen and *NSYNC. I had my Korn wall and she had her **NSYNC wall 
I do listen to a wide variety though. Tonight I’m playing stuff from the 50s
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I knew alot of people that loved nsync, have yet to meet a hanson fan that wasn’t being ironic.
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Thank you for sharing that fact about the seven string guitars and creating new sounds… I’m going to look into this it’s very interesting
Been listening to a lot of Motörhead recently when I want something that for me is considered heavy. Pretty much starting from the beginning… Any other bands that are similar or related please let me know or suggestions
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I listen to everything, as well, it’s funny cause when it comes to my own playing No matter how I try I’ll always sound metal.
Jazz? Metal with a snobbish tone
Blues metal slowed down
Rock, metal with a bunch of blues licks lol
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Well the bottom string is tuned to a b so it changes your chords a bit, you get that beefier sound, often it’s easier tuned down a whole step to get that real dropped sound
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That all makes sense. I remember reading an article about Jimi Hendrix talking about it being easier to play half step down. I’ve always played standard. But like we talked about yesterday it’s pretty much time to try new stuff and make changes. Learning covers and other tunings
I messed around with drop d For like a week and messed with some rage And nirvana songs. But I really haven’t tried any other tunings
I’m not a big alternate tuning guy, drop D is very common cause it gives you the one finger chords,
I played in a few bands where it was one step down, so DGCFAD, which was cool for metal stuff,
As far as the half step flat like Hendrix and almost all 80s bands, it’s got its purpose, it takes that brightness away, makes the Melodies easier to sing and bending strings is easier,
For me i am usually studying a lot and it’s mostly standard tuning, so I use .009 gauge strings which offsets the string tension a bit for bends and vibrato, if I’m going to tune down I go with .010s cause the less tension is evened out with thicker strings. Then you have guys like Billy Gibbins from ZZ Top who uses .008 strings which are way weird for me,
Alternate tunings can be fun to learn new ideas, almost all of the Goo Goo dolls stuff is in some sort of strange tuning, like Iris is B,D,D,D,D,D Pearl Jam daughter is open G, the lead guitar is major pentatonic of G in standard, she talks to Angels is Open E, there’s others I can’t think of off the top of my head
DADGAD! I almost forgot that one Dolly Parton made it famous, cause she always had nails and it was easier for her to play in DADGAD cause she could bare a whole fret and not have to worry about her nails interfering
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I know I am old but just saw Priest on YouTube a video live from 7 days ago… fucking Halford still has it.
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I don’t think he’ll ever lose jr to be honest
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Thank you for all of this knowledge I just screenshot this and can use it as a reference. Sometimes I feel like I made the mistake of being self-taught and just trial and error for 15 years. But now it’s time to learn the technical side and the mumbo-jumbo lol… Some things you’re talking about makes sense but I mostly just go off of my ear, Music is probably my first memory so it comes naturally to create
And I’m really stubborn with trying different strings or really changing anything. I’ve been pretty much using a telecaster with a Marshall amp, boss loop pedal , Ernie ball light strings, and Dunlop .60 picks … Have to be those pics, and standard tuning That’s all been the same for probably seven years or more …most of my equipment is back in Saint Augustine but I think I’m going to get a cheap little guitar just a mess around with other tunings
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