4ths?

JCA2550

Anyone playing guitar tuned in 4ths and enjoying it?
I.e. eadgcf

Barney

I tried it but IV played that long with standard tuning it felt a bit odd ...I can understand why anyone starting would learn this way because it simplifies a lot of things and more symmetrical....Tom Quayle uses that tuning and it suits him great but he's more fusion ....not sure it would work so well for blues for example 

digitalkettle

Barney said:

I tried it but IV played that long... 

I see what you did there @Barney ;!

GuyBoden

About 15 years tuned in fourths, great for Jazz phrases and three note chords, but I wouldn't change if you play Rock, you loose all the cliche Rock riffs.

sev112

I tried it earlier this year for about 3 days before I gave up, it did sound all the same I found 

Lestratcaster

I use that tuning to play Coldplay's "The Scientist" as the ringing top 2 strings give a really nice open lushness to the chords.

BillDL

I tune all my guitars in 4ths all except for the B string 

Adji

It's great for certain styles or ways of playing, it makes the intervallic approach to playing a lot easier. I tried it for a few weeks (I know, not that long) but it wasn't for me. Also made certain things like sweep picking a lot more challenging in certain positions.

ElevensLouder

I played all 4ths for about a year and a half, 8 ish years ago.
It has it's pros and cons. I can't really remember why I went back to standard - I think I hit a plateau with it and missed the vocabulary of standard tuning. 

Was great for single line playing, and was awesome for ripping huge sweeps as it is symmetrical across the octaves, resulting in the same fingering = much easier and faster to learn.

For me, life is too short to learn another tuning. There's very little that 4ths offer that can't be done in standard. I don't think the opposite is quite true.