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Discover the guitar secret behind one of the biggest hits of the 90s. This video breaks down the BDDDD tuning of 'Iris' and reveals the exact .070 gauge string you need to play it correctly, straight from the band's own guitar tech.
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00:00it is impossible to play iris by the goo goo dolls without this string right here and to prove it
00:07to
00:07you i got a chance to actually speak with john resnick from the goo goo dolls his guitar tech
00:12and this is what he had to say about it there's a few tunings that are super low obviously iris
00:18iris is one of them it was written originally with a b and four d's and in order to get
00:25the
00:25bottom string down to a b to actually sound like a note and hold tuning and all that um
00:32they had to find john had to find something that was a bigger you know a heavier gauge string so
00:38of
00:38course come along the old 70 pb 70 diadario probably i think the biggest i think the biggest phosphorus
00:48bronze guitar string that i know of wait a second wait you're telling me that the string the low
00:54string the low b is a 70. pb 70 yes
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