It's great to hear Danny's story. I read very much the same stuff on his web site. The open C is a tried and true blues thing but I've never heard anyone use it for metal. Danny, your in the company of Albert King, Taj Mahal and others.

Open tunings are a great way to get unstuck when in a rut, a real boost to the creative side. Right now I have a guitar permanently set to what I call Jimmy Page tuning. I don't know what the correct term for this tuning is and maybe Danny knows? The bottom 3 strings all get tuned daown a tone to DGC the 3rd is left at G the second tunes up to C and the first is down to D. DGCGCD is an incredible open tuning and is almost essential to easily play songs like Kashmir and The Rain Song.

Check out this tuning folks, and Danny, keep on rockin.

*gigglesnort* Was that meant for the Chord Analyzing thread, Crg? Either way it made me lol.

Hope ya like it...but I know it's not for everyone. :) http://www.youtube.com/wa.h?v=56M0QSD0twM&hd=1

Awesome Danny. (much applause occurring and other noises happening )


I didn't know you only play in C tuning. That's way cool. woops, I mean, "What's wrong with you boy"???


What exactly is a C tuning anyway....?

You guys are awesome...just wow...to be honest, I've always been a bit shakey on posting my stuff here as you've noticed, I haven't shared many of my own songs. I just didn't think anyone would really like them anyway. I know a lot of you guys aren't into the metal thing...but it's so great that you can at least appreciate it. Seriously, thank you all for the most kind words. I'm actually a bit shy/reserved believe it or not with sharing my stuff...as weird as that may sound. I still have a complex and just feel I'm never good enough to share anything truth be told.

Again, I'm really sorry about that long novel...but I honestly didn't know how else to really tell it in a short form or you may have had questions...so I sort of tried to answer them in the novel hopefully. LOL! Now that I know you guys at least appreciate some of this stuff, maybe I'll share a few tunes with you or maybe some instrumental stuff for you guitar maniacs. :)

Craig: I really appreciate you taking the time to show interest in me and what I do. I'm usually not one that really likes to draw attention to myself (believe it or not) other than sharing stuff in the techniques forum....so this was a breath of fresh air for me that someone cared enough to see what I was all about. I thank you brother....from the heart.

If you like that tone, I can share the amp sim with you (and anyone else that may want it...even my arch enemy Bub LOL) if you're interested in it. It's still in beta and has a few little bugs here and there, but man does it sound and work great. The biggest issue with the current one I'm using is it takes it 21 seconds to load up in Sonar whether it's saved inside the project or you load the plug from scratch. We weren't able to get a developer copy of Sonar at the time for Ken at Acme Bar Gig to mess with so he could hone in on Sonar issues...so that's why there are still a few bugs. But for me, just the load time seems to be an issue and the plug will not work in x64 bit unless you J-Bridge it. It's really an incredible plug. All amps sport super dirty, clean and then "old plexi" type styles with a click of the button, have stomp boxes, built in, cab sims, mic positioning, rack effects, and tone stack shapers so you can literally make the eq knobs and gain stages do whatever you want. I'd love to get Sonar to bring this plug in....we offered it to them on every Sonar release for free and the price of a little banner for Ken at the company. We've even offered to build one exclusively for Sonar...but I guess they weren't interested in it. It's quite an involved plug, but a plug that will definitely help you to get just about any tone you want.

As for the guitar, that's a DC-400 custom that I had made for me in their custom shop. I have 3 of them that have been built to my specs. It's the best custom guitar I've ever played for under $2000. Mine come with active and passive pups via push/pull volume knob....single coil switches for the strat sound and this little phase switch that makes it sound like a tele...so it's almost like having a strat, les paul and the Carvin sound all in one guitar. There hasn't been a need for me to play anything else since 1994 to be honest. I get an artist discount on the guitars which helps a bit too. I don't do full endorsements with anyone because then they lock you in to where you can't use any other guitar. I pretty much use the Carvin exclusively right now, but have several others I like as well. Some Ibanez guitars, old neck-thru B.C Rich's, Fender HM 24 fret strats etc.

Anyway, I'm novelin' again....uggh...I'll share another little instrumental piece I've not shared with too many people. I had some guy tell me I didn't know how to play with any feel...it kinda hurt because, well, I play with what I call feel, but it was another one of those times where I felt the need to justify myself or prove that "ok, yeah I'm a shredder, but I'm not totally a one-trick pony darn it!" LOL! I've always had a complex....stems back to when I was a kid I guess. But anyway...some of you may enjoy this. I tried to keep it nice and melodic and feely...but at the end, I just felt it was time to blow my cork so it gets a little out of control. I liked it though so I kept it. :)

I can't take credit for the backer all the way. Some friend of mine sent me a backer that was beautiful but it came in the key of G#. I had no problems playing there, but it just didn't sound right and well, I can't tune a half step down or my guitar would totally be in B and wouldn't play right. I tried to retune the backer but it sounded all messed up...so I recorded the whole thing myself. Did this in 2007...have a vid for it somewhere...but here's the audio for now. :) Hope you enjoy it. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4909348/XTCSHQ.mp3

Thank you all so much once again! This made my weekend. :) Much love to you all.

-Danny

You should start a band

Keep on rockin' is right!!

Great stuff here!!

Heh. Yeah, I was actually gonna spend some time figuring it out but yanno, low attention span. Well, more of a BROAD and scattered attention span actually. I soak up little bits at a time and flit off to my other little pursuits. I eventually absorb it all. Kind of like a catfish. I definitely understand your philosophy of being thorough in your posts (which you mentioned in the first few minutes of the interview I have actually listened to). I do the same thing. When trying to convey large concepts properly verbosity is just unavoidable sometimes. The twitterati and facebook status elite have really degraded how we absorb and convey information and it is saddening. I for one salute your epic posts and efforts to be thorough and educational. Cheers.

Thinking along those lines sure puts Orville and Wilbur in
a new light. At least Danny had a guitar.

Great stuff Danny!! I have enough trouble with tuning, never mind different ones. 

Guitarhacker

Danny Danzi






I'll share another little instrumental piece I've not shared with too many people.......  Did this in 2007...have a vid for it somewhere...but here's the audio for now. :) Hope you enjoy it. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4909348/XTCSHQ.mp3

Thank you all so much once again! This made my weekend. :) Much love to you all.

-Danny

Wow!!!  I loved that ...hands down, flat out, loved it. Skill and finesse in such a beautiful melody.  


... as I was listening I was thinking, especially on the second half, I'd love to see that being played..... then I realized that no, I probably didn't want to see that... it would either discourage me or perhaps, maybe, encourage me to pick up the guitar and play it more..... a worthy goal and endevour most certainly. 

Me too!  I love this kind of tune.  Good job!
 
I wish I had ears that were better at hearing...  After all the loud music (and loud race engines - it seemed everyone had one when I was young) I don't have tinitis too bad, but I definitely have a *Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...* sound most of the time.  It does make it difficult to recall something I just heard in the same key.  Oh well...

Beepster


Orville and Wilbur had bikes and bikes are kind of like guitars when you think about it except they, uh... well... hmm... *wanders off*

This thread was about one being amazed that Danny chose a tuning, unknowingly but still...and I
don't find it amazing in the least which has nothing to do with his abilities, style or class- which I
admire as he well knows.
 
It has to do with inovation. Should I also decide to put steel guitar players with multiple necks all
tuned differently into a class of amazing special talent or abilities?
How about those that play them upside down? ...well?...hmm...*wandars off*
 
 
 
 

That was so cool to watch you play and see your man cave!

I loved it...

I will never be able to play like that but I sure do appreciate the technique involved and your tone....it is so warm and it sustains perfectly......

Nice job!!!!!

Clifford

Spacey: Agreed....I gotta say this though...it feels pretty amazing when I pull something off that may be a cover that's too hard for me to do in the tuning. But yeah...nothing about what I do is amazing...just the feelings I get sometimes after facing a challenge. :) I'd say yes to those guys that tune funny and play upside down with all those necks. I especially like the guys that play without strumming or picking....using the guitar as a percussive instrument...using the tuning keys in real time as they play, beating on the thing...they make me wanna quit! :)

trimph: thanks....worst case scenario, I'll always post the long novels for you since I know you enjoy them. :)

Clifford: Thanks brother! I dig that little plugin. If only we could sort out the long load time. It's even worse if you use a few instances of it. 21 seconds x the amount of plugs. So that can take a project a pretty long time to open. Then again, I don't mind too much because the tone is pretty rewarding and you're loaded with options. It's not quite as good as my guitar tube pre-amp that I use, but it's darned close. It has the tone down...it just doesn't have that 12ax7 tube voicing I like to hear. But...we can't have everything. :)

musicman: Hahaha! Just so ya know...I play in all keys...my main tuning is just in C. :) The keys I hate the most though are Eb, G# and Bb. Not many rock songs were written in those keys...so I'm sort of like lost for the first minute while playing there. But I get it after a minute. LMAO! :)

-Danny

Meh ,I know a keyboard player who plays EVERYTHING in C

Don't...I played in a blues band with one that actually did..

Seriously cool Danny. You rock. Thanks for sharing.

'If you like that tone, I can share the amp sim'

As I watched the video I was wondering about the awesome tone, but you mentioned ABG HeadCase amps, so I assumed you were miking. I can't believe that was an amp sim. (If Cakewalk chose not to include it they haven't seen that video).

I'd love to get my hands on whatever software was used. Didn't have time to read the whole thread, does Ken have a website?

Thx again,
Vernon