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 Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:19 pm
ok, so usually when i right i song i just jam out to what ever sounds awesome and ive never had a problem with that. but im wanting to right something very dark and dissonant. if anyone listens to cannibal corpse, i want a "from skin to liquid" kind of vibe...where you just feel completly enveloped by darkness. any suggestions??
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:19 pm
Use the ultamate guitarist's tool:
The circle of 5ths.
Very dark and dissonant can be played very well in drop D, or flat tuning all of your strings. Baisicly just take your tuner (if you can't do it by ear) and make everything 10 or 20 cents flat. This gives a darker sound, and sometimes even a fuller sound.
If you want more of a grungy emo sound to it, crank the hell out of your bass (on the equalizers on your guitar/amp) and crank the gain up as much as you can.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:37 pm
Drop D works, but try minor chords in regular tuning. Every fret is half a step on a musical scale, to make a minor chord pick 3 notes each with note letter between them and flat the middle one (i.e. start on c as the tonic, e as the 3rd and g as the 5th, then make e flat)
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:24 pm
Hi, I'm new to the guild. Hope to be friends. For someting really dark...try a mode. Like Dorian or Phrygian starting on D. Wicked dark.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:46 am
I play guitar in a Blackened Death Metal Band, I recommend dropping your guitar into CGCFAd, or just buy a 7-string which I use more often. I agree with Adlib, using a mode will change the sound of your song. Also if you play a fast lead, I would use a natural minor scale. Most guitarists will tell you that they don't work with most chord progressions because not all the notes agree, but what is metal with-out breaking the guidlines?
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:05 am
Perhaps experiment with tone clusters (for example, C, C sharp, and D), they are a great way to achieve dissonance, though you will most likely have to tune your guitar in a specific way to achieve this.
I've never done tone clusters on a guitar, only on a piano. I know Nick Drake incorporated tone clusters into his guitar playing, which he achieved through unique methods of tuning, but I don't know how he tuned his guitar, and though his music was commonly dissonant, it was predominantly acoustic and not really at all what you're talking about. But if you could achieve tone clusters on an electric guitar, it might accomplish what you want.
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