Thoughts on Alternate Tuning/'Noise Rock Lesson'

***Link to New Release of the intro song "Waterfowl" by PORTIA***

Thanks to you all who voted on the community column. After a recent move and settling in I could finally put this together.
The video opens with a song I wrote in the tuning we are looking at.
This is mostly personal philosophy in my discovery of playing like this but I hope there are bits of knowledge here you can find useful!

Gear -
Modded Squire VM Jazzmaster
PTP 5f1 Tweed Clone
EV65a
Sennheiser MD-421
Beautiful Noise Engineering When the Sun Explodes + Moog ep3
Death by Audio Echo Dream 2
SHO clone
ProCo RAT w/LM308

[mickikaufman]

1:27 this is already a complete banger

[stephennanna-lcqg]

I find your style really inspirational. Thanks for the tutorial content.

[dialect]

I love that the sonic changes in the intro song were technique driven, and the fx pedal settings remained the same. A goal I am working on myself

[WinnifredJune]

Nice playing! Keep it up, I just subscribed.

Blixa Bargeld uses DADAAD and calls it the monochord. The last Sonic Youth album is mostly in CGDGCD. Robert Fripp uses CGDAEG, which you can't use a standard pack of strings on for the high G, but I like to play it at CGDAEE which I can get away with, with a set of 10s. First VU album used a unison tuning Lou Reed called The Ostriche from his song by the same title.

[wave]

My guy really just casually opened his video with maybe the coolest guitar part I've ever heard. You've got me wanting to learn, so I guess it was effective lol. That's a sub from me.

[yungkimchee]

holy smokes what an introduction man, thank you for the sick knowledge bombs and dope ass guitar work

[harveyharris-tanzer]

you seem like ur name Garrett and I love it!

[davidfarrell]

Great video!
LOVE that intro track!!
Keep it up!

[pisicadavid]

the intro song is absolutely phenomenal and i aspire to write like this

[mr.champlinssciencechannel]

"I'm a little rusty cause I haven't been practicing". Proceeds to play the sh*t out of the fiddle.

[ethannelson]

Hey man absolutely amazing inspiring video please make more! I also have a question regarding your guitars color and pick guard, I think we both have Olympic white by any chance could you share where you got your pick guard from it looks great?

[Jaimellex]

Utterly obsessed with this song! 2:05 how did you achive this QOTSA-like sound?

[mikeymakesnoises]

For all the people that don't know yet, check out the band Biffy Clyro. From my country Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I'd recommend the older albums and also b-sides. Thank me later!

[holliefitzzz]

i thought i had the most destroyed 635a until i saw this ❤

[christianavetoom]

What is the precise tuning? I'm not sure the exact letter of the tuning that you said. Is it D-G-D-G-C-B?E?D? What's the last letter of the tuning?

[gekinatracksuit]

no way that looks like Jake Dusziks guitar

[q-perspective]

sonic youth? sounds like The Band Sonic Youth 1990 ish, , At least you have non mainstream taste

[agharta]

you're using a squier and your pedals are on top of your amp, that's your problem

[mikemckelvey]

Good to hear it. I am so afraid to play alternate tunings because I don't want to be called out for ripping off Sonic Youth. But on the flip side... Someone out there ripped off Robert Johnston? So fuck it...Alternate tunings it is for me! No one is ripping off anyone... it is just influence. And SY used a "tool" called alternate tunings.