help with tuning differently

[striker]

ok i'm new to guitar and on i've had my guitar for a month already so i no what i'm talking about when talking about guitar but when i'm looking for tabs from the band brand new some tabs say tune like
eb
Ab
Gb
Db
Ab
Eb

and i ask all my friends who know guitar, and none of them how what that means, if you can pleas help me out here.

[Hammurabi]

Your friends don't know much about guitar.

Tune every string down a semitone. Normal tuning is EADGBe.

[SPL]

b = half a tone lower than the note name

[Jimmi431]

okay this is just a wild stab in the dark but i guess you wont know wot a half tone is so here goes... its one fret! wow impressive even if i do say so myself! move from the original fret your on down or up by one fret then you will have moved half a tone move two frets and its a tone!
b= flat - go down 1 fret from said note
#= sharp - go up 1 fret from said note


[Edited by jimmi431 on 02-04-2004 at 08:43 AM]

[I Suffer]

I'm crap at trying to explain tunings, i know how to do it myself, but telling someone else its like im speaking in circles in the language of furbish.

They have books on tunings, that have a number of different ones in them. They show you how to tune, what strings, frets, or harmonics to judge by.