hey, i see some great tabs in Kapone's tab thread....but tuning the guitar to be able to play many of these coldplay songs is trciky. can anyone help with how to tune for songs such as til kingdom come, yellow, well any of them i guess!

 

and while i'm at it, anyone know how i can download the acoustic tracks from this "japan acoustic session" i have read about?

Yeah I would love to know a quick way of changing tuning. I have a program on my PC that allows me to tune my guitar standard: EADGBE by playing into the mic and it tells me how far off I am. It isn't customisable sadly...

I would like to know this too. Alot of the songs have weird tunings and I don't know how to tune my guitar like this 'cause I only know the standard tuning :/

you have to learn tuning your guitar if you want to play coldplay on guitar.. :) its quite simple really.. but not so easy to explain.. just be careful when you tune your guitar.. i have broken some strings trough the years, while trying to tune my guitar... :lol:

Can someone explain this please? I'd like to play Til Kingdom Come.

buy a guitartuner.. thats the easy way..

 

anyway "til kingdom come":

first, tune your high e string. down to a C. when its tuned to a c, its sound similar to B:--1--(a C tone on the B string)

 

and then tune your d-string down to a C. when its tuned to a c, its sound similar to A:--3-- (a C tone on the A string)

I was going to make a post about this a while ago... but many late nights and endless cups of coffee later (and loads of broken strings :lol: ) I eventually figured it out. I am soon to buy a digital guitar tuner though, it is probably the easiest way.

Yeah I had considered that but can you set different tunings on those things because I am going to have to get one soon I reckon.

buy a guitartuner.. thats the easy way..

 

anyway "til kingdom come":

first, tune your high e string. down to a C. when its tuned to a c, its sound similar to B:--1--(a C tone on the B string)

 

and then tune your d-string down to a C. when its tuned to a c, its sound similar to A:--3-- (a C tone on the A string)

 

I would agree with this but I would also tune your low E string also down to a C :D

Til Kingdom Come: CACGBc

Yellow: EABGBd#

 

Enjoy

^ :lol: , great help mate.

OK I'll try help:

 

Yellow: I haven't even looked attempted to play Til Kingdom Come, dunno why.

Anyway, k, so, ummmmmm

kkk, ok, ok, hmmmm.

Ok I got it I know where to start. I have played this song with the tuning:

EABGBd# many times. And first thing I will say is that you should be able to tune a guitar to standard tuning to understand this.

OK

First thing, have you're guitar standard tuned.

Second: to get the B tuning tune your D string down while plucking the A string on the second fret. Continue this until you think they sound the same and then pluck them together, if they ring in harmony, sounding like one note, they are tuned.

Third: for the high e string do the same thing as above with the 4th fret on the B string (the high B string not the one you just tuned.)

4th: keep practising and you'll be able to do it quickly and easy.

 

btw you may have been able to notice that the strings you pluck (second fret , A string, 4th fret B string) are thre notes you are trying to tune other strings to. :idea2:

 

Try figure out you're own way to tune to the other songs, and if u know your theory it should be easy.

buy a guitartuner.. thats the easy way..

 

anyway "til kingdom come":

first, tune your high e string. down to a C. when its tuned to a c, its sound similar to B:--1--(a C tone on the B string)

 

and then tune your d-string down to a C. when its tuned to a c, its sound similar to A:--3-- (a C tone on the A string)

 

I would agree with this but I would also tune your low E string also down to a C :D

 

yeah i know.. but its not possible on my guitar(the E- string would broke) and if its a just started guitar player then its pretty hard to tell how to tune it.. ;)

has anyone heard about Nick Drake? he was a sick tuner-guitar man :lol: