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standard tuning and the other in an altered tuning, so you could play the verse on one and the chorus on the other.
Jimmy Page did this on 'Wonderful One'.

Creating Your Own Tunings
If you want to make up your own tunings, here are some tips:

• If possible, tune down rather than up, to lessen the risk of breaking strings and ease the tension on the neck.


• Try to keep at least one of the open strings of E A D G B E as part of your new tuning.


• Find which of the open strings has the root note. The lower, the better.


• If you create an open major tuning, locate the third of the chord. Fret this string at the first fret for a sus4; go two
  frets higher for a fifth chord. Lower this string a semitone (half-step) for an equivalent open minor tuning.


• Be sensitive to the balance of roots, fifths and thirds in your tuning, and to the intervals between the strings.


• Look for strings tuned an octave, third or sixth apart. These can be valuable for consecutive interval figures.

DGDGBD tuning

DADF#AD tuning

• It is useful to find movable major and minor shapes in case a chord sequence requires a chord that does not occur
  as an open-string voicing.