Extended Range, Alternate Tunings- what are you using?

I keep mine standard, but in different keys. E standard, Eb standard. My 7 string is in B standard (everything down a whole step). During a playing session I’ll do a drop tuning for a riff or song, then tune it back up. Does that count?
 
I’ve got one in E standard, a couple in D, and a baritone in B or drop-A. I really love to set a capo at the 2nd or 3rd fret for a song and then pop it off for the doomed out mosh pit outro riffs. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
 
I like Open D, D A D F♯ A D. Bo Diddley, Keith Richards, etc style tuning.

Specifically I have a 28 5/8" scale (Reverend baritone tele) tuned to Open C, and then a multi scale 25.5-25" (Strandberg neck thru) in Open E.
 
Open drop F…minor, I think. Me go caveman riff. I don’t even remember the notes at the moment.

Also standard C is nice. I don’t use a baritone guitar, just a regular 25.5 scale with some custom string gauges for that silly low tuning. 12s or 13s for C. The Strat I keep in standard or D has 8s on it 😂
 
Lately, my favorite alt tuning is achieved with a partial capo on the 2nd fret, taking my guitar from standard tuning to E-B-E-A-B-e. Putting it on the 4th fret (E-C#-F#-B-B-e) is fun too. Often, I'll add a 2nd partial capo to the 1st and get E-B-E-A-D-g. I prefer to use capos instead of retuning the strings. There are a few tunes where tuning the strings, (rather than a capo), is required. Like for Pink Floyd's "Fearless" where it gets tuned to G-G-D-C-B-b.

Don't fear the capo.
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Other capos I like to toy with . . .
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A Keyser can be flipped to get some partial capo action too.
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Hal Harvey said:
I like Open D, D A D F♯ A D. Bo Diddley, Keith Richards, etc style tuning.

Specifically I have a 28 5/8" scale (Reverend baritone tele) tuned to Open C, and then a multi scale 25.5-25" (Strandberg neck thru) in Open E.
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Pete Anderson baritone? I have been eyeing that one for a while, it looks like one of the best baritone guitars out there. How do you like it?
 
Cybercow said:
Lately, my favorite alt tuning is achieved with a partial capo on the 2nd fret, taking my guitar from standard tuning to E-B-E-A-B-e. Putting it on the 4th fret (E-C#-F#-B-B-e) is fun too. Often, I'll add a 2nd partial capo to the 1st and get E-B-E-A-D-g. I prefer to use capos instead of retuning the strings. There are a few tunes where tuning the strings, (rather than a capo), is required. Like for Pink Floyd's "Fearless" where it gets tuned to G-G-D-C-B-b.

Don't fear the capo.
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Other capos I like to toy with . . .
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A Keyser can be flipped to get some partial capo action too.
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That’s some cool capo work. What are those snap-on ones that grab the edge strings called?

I jammed on Fearless with my buds a few weeks ago, using my baritone with a low G.
 
I have a 28" scale Ibanez RG tuned to drop E, one octave down. I use custom string gauges 15-20-28-38-52-80. Tension is reasonably tight and about the same top to bottom but I'm not happy with how the .080 sounds. Sounds much duller with less sustain compared to the others. Lighter gauges (.068-.074) sound better but it's way too floppy. It's still fun to play though and intonates fine thanks to the extended scale.
 
I usually live in drop G on a 27”-25.5” multi scale with 64-11s but once in a while I go down to F# or do something different like
G# F# B E G# C# D
 
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