This morning, GuitarMX blog features a video about how to play Pantera’s song Walk. While the video is great and you can actually learn the riffs there, the subject of this post is about what Dennis Hodges, the instructor teaching the song, said about the tuning Dimebag Darrell used for that song and for the whole album actually.

As Dennis Hodges says, Dimebag Darrell and the bass player started at one moment to tune the guitars down a quarter of a step! However, for this very song they are also tuned down a full step so in order to correctly play the song along with the tape, you need to tune your guitar down 1 step and a quarter! Damn!

While tuning it down one full step does not intrigue me, there are various reasons for which they would do it, from heavier sounds to putting less pressure on the lead singer, I am intrigued by that quarter of a step! Imagine you need to tune your guitar so your low E string is right between D# and E! Now, why would they do such thing?

What could be the reason for this? Somebody put some light on this for me, please!

By the way, I dare you tune your guitar this way without using an electronic guitar tuner! Ha!

Also, if you watch the video on GuitarMx site, pay attention at the end of it how the guy in the video uses his fingers to go from a G to a G#. I just noticed it because I didn’t understand at first why is he playing that way…He uses fingers 1 and 3 for the G chord and right next to it 2 and 4 for the G# chord. I would have gone forward half a step but his chords make an interesting moment to watch and talk about!

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