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Originally Posted by fugazifan
just because a guitar is tuned differently does not mean that there are not standard chords being used. sonic youth's intervals are also still based on the standard guitar of half and whole tones. so whatever they are doing except for like noise jams, can probably be explained using standard music jargon.
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yes,
and they do find other non-chord chords - just stuff that brings the damaged tone to the chord - but essentially chord forms, partial chords and chord progressions
all this was sort of part of a thread a long time ago on a debate as to the degree Sonic Youth are music or noise...
(when obviously it is music that is somewhat noisy music at times)
what i was fumbling on about before (which was an attempt to answer the topic question) ...anyway, about that...
if one knows the notes that make up the chord they want they then figure out a way to play the same notes on the non-standard/alternately tuned instrument ... and the process repeats itself until all the chord arrangements in all the various progressions have been mapped to the particular tuning
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what i wrote in the first post was describing the way that it is done
(well, how i do it anyway as at least one method)
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and then there is always what just happens and you discover that sounds good without much of the above technique being applied
(after awhile you just sort of know anyway)
i like knowing the notes...at least where the root is and then using shapes and scales and trying different things out...some fly just fine without really knowing the notes...probably best to be open to whatever and use both approaches