Name some open G tuning songs please.
R. McPherson
The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
I promptly tuned a guitar to open G and have been playing that
one song for two days now.
Can someone please mention a few other songs that are in Open G
(or open A) so that I can stop sounding like a broken record
endlessly repeating Rain Song?
We should post lists of popular songs with alternate tunings.
Thanks.
rjmc...@uci.edu
PS
I tried using the unix grep command to search the OLGA archive
but I can't find a good pattern or a the command to search
subdirectories.
mark spearman
Most of the famous rolling stones songs are open g:
brown sugar
start me up
tumbling dice
honky tonk women
etc..
Ray Langley
R. McPherson wrote:
>
> The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
> the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
> I promptly tuned a guitar to open G and have been playing that
> one song for two days now.
> Can someone please mention a few other songs that are in Open G
> (or open A) so that I can stop sounding like a broken record
> endlessly repeating Rain Song?
My favorite is "Spanish Flangdang" by Elizabeth Cotton.
Ray
Timothy Tobin
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 01:38:12 -0800, Ray Langley <lan...@pacbell.net>
took a belt of scotch and wrote:
:R. McPherson wrote:
:>
:> The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
:> the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
:My favorite is "Spanish Flangdang" by Elizabeth Cotton.
:Ray
Brown Sugar & Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones.
Craig & Dawn Stenseth
In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961109...@rigel.oac.uci.edu>,
rjmc...@rigel.oac.uci.edu says...
>
>
>The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
>the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
>one song for two days now.
The Dec 93 Guitar World has Page saying the tuning is (low to hi) EADADE
(one step lower on the studio version - DGCGCD). I tried this, sounds
right to me...
Chords are kind of like :
-0----------0--------------------------------------------------------
--7----------6----------5--3--2--3-----------------------------------
---0----------0---------4--0--0--3----2--4---------------------------
----7----------6--------5--3--3--3----2--2---------------------------
-----0----------0---0---0--------0-0--0--0---------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
(not the actual rhythm, but you get the idea)
Craig
R. McPherson
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Kay-Uwe Graw wrote:
:>
:> rjmc...@rigel.oac.uci.edu says...
:> >
:> >The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
:> >the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
:> >I promptly tuned a guitar to open G and have been playing that
:> >one song for two days now.
:Whatever the name for the tuning of Rain Song is ...
:Open G Tuning is (from low to high) D G D G B D and not D G C G C D
Yes, but Rain Song is DGCGCD and that is what I am now calling
open Gsus4. It could actually be called open Csus2 also I guess,
but it is just open G with two Cs added (sus 4). Although there
was a tab for Rain Song in straight open G but the fingerings
were much more awkward than in open Gsus4.
I started a thread asking for other open tuning songs so
if you know of any please add to that thread. It is more
convenient to have a list of open G songs so that when I retune
the old guitar I can play a set of songs and not just one over
and over.
rjmc...@uci.edu R. McPherson, Psychobiology Dept, UC Irvine
0
In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.96111...@rigel.oac.uci.edu>,
Off the top of my head:
Bad to the Bone (at least I play it that way)
Brown Sugar
Honky Tonk Women
Start Me up
All Down the Line (Stones)
Can't You Hear Me knockin' (Stones)
Tumblin' Dice
Easy to Slip (Little Feat)
Dancin' Days
Jesus Just Left Chicago (ZZ Top) - at least this sounds like Open G
Squeezebox (again, this one lends itself well to open G, not sure about the
original)
Kay-Uwe Graw
>
> In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961109...@rigel.oac.uci.edu>,
> rjmc...@rigel.oac.uci.edu says...
> >
> >
> >The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
> >the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
> >I promptly tuned a guitar to open G and have been playing that
> >one song for two days now.
Whatever the name for the tuning of Rain Song is ...
Open G Tuning is (from low to high) D G D G B D and not D G C G C D
Kay
R. McPherson
On 12 Nov 1996, DANIEL H MEANS wrote:
:I always thought it was in standard tuning. The book I learned it from
:had the tab for standard tuning and it sounds completely right.
OK, to stem further controversy I am posting the tab I follow.
This is one of at least 6 tabs which are at OLGA. Two are in
standard tuning, Two are in open A, one is in open G, and this
one which is in open Gsus4 (DGCGCD). I believe this to be the
most accurate of all the tabs. Try this and you too will be
convinced.
The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
From low to high : D G C G C D
D---0-------0--0--0----0-------0--0--0---------------------------------
C----7------7--7--7-----6------6--6--6-------5-5-3-2---3----3--3-------
G-----0-----0--0--0------0-----0--0--0-------4-4-4-4---3----3--3------
C------7----7--7--7-------6----6--6--6-------5-5-5-5---3----3--3-------
G-------0---0--0--0--------0---0--0--0---0---0---------0----0--0------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
D-----------------0---0---0---0---0---0-0-----0---0---0---0---0---0-0--
C-----------------11--9---12--11--4---9-9-----11--9---12--11--4---9-9--
G-----2---4-4-----0---0---0---0---0---0-0-----0---0---0---0---0---0-0--
C-----2---2-2-----11--9---12--11--4---9-9-----11--9---12--11--4---9-9--
G-0-0-0---0-0-----0---0---0---0---0---8-8-----0---0---0---0---0---8-8--
D---------------------------------------------------------------------
D--0----------------0-----------------5--5--5-------5--5--5--]
C--10/9----9---9----9-----9---9-------0--0--0-------0--0--0--]
G--11/10---10--10---10----10--10------0--0--0-------0--0--0--]Repeat 3
C--12/11---11--11---10----10--10------5--4--0---0-4-5--4--0--]times
G--0-------0---0----0-----0---0------------------------------]
D------------------------------------------------------------]
Guitar 1:
D------------------------------------------------------------------2-------
C-2--2--2-------------2--2--2-------------2--2--2-------------2--2----2----
G-2--4--4-------------2--4--4-------------2--4--4-------------2--4------4--
C-2--2--2-------------3--3--3-------------4--4--4-------------5--5---------
G-0-----0-------------0-----0-------------0-----0-------------0-----------0
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
Guitar2:
D--------------------------------------------------------------------
C--------------------------------------------------------------------
G--------2-4-0-2---0---------2-4-0-2---0---------2-4-0-2---0---------
C----------------4---2---------------4---2---------------4---2-------
G--------------------------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------------------------
D----5--4h5p4-------4--2--4----4-----0---2--0h2p0------0--2--0h2p0----
C----4--------4-----2--2--2----2-----0-----------0-----0----------0---
G----4----------4---2--2--2----2-----0------------0----0-----------0--
C--0---------------------------------0-------------0---0--------------
G-------------------4-----4----4-----2--------------2--2--------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------
D-------------
C-------------
G--2--4--4----
C--2--2--2----
G--0--0--0----
D-------------
Variation :
------------
(slightly different version of the above two lines of TAB)
D-----5--4h5p4-------4--2--4---4----5---5---5-----7--7--7--7-----5--5----
C-----4--------4-----2--2--2---2----4---4---4-----5--5--5--5-----4--4---
G-----4----------4---2--2--2---2----4---4---4-----5--5--5--5-----4--4----
C---0-------------------------------0---0---0--------------------0--0-----
G--------------------4-----4---4------------------7--7--7--7-------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
D--4h5p4-------4--2--4---4------0---2--0h2p0------0--2--0h2p0-------
C--------4-----2--2--2---2------0-----------0-----0----------0------
G----------4---2--2--2---2------0------------0----0-----------0------
C-------------------------------0-------------0---0-------------------
G--------------4-----4---4------2--------------2--2-------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ending :
---------
D---/9--9---9--7----7--7----5--7-----5--5---5--4-----4--4---4--5---------
C---/7--7---7----7--5--5--5-5--------4--4---4----4---2--2---2--4---------
G---/7--7---7-------5--5----5--------4--4---4--------2--2---2--4---------
C---/7--7---7-------5--5-------------0--0---0------------------0---------
G---0---0-----------0--0-----------------------------4--4---4------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
D---7--7---7-8----10--8--10--8--10--12/---------------0---------
C---5--5---5-7----8------8------8-------------------5---5---5----
G---5--5---5-7----8------8------8-----------------6-------6-------
C-----------------------------------------------7-----------------
G---7--7---7-8----10--------------------------0-------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------------------
D----------0----------7p5-----5--2p0--------5p3---3----------0-----0---
C--------5---5---5--------6----------0---------4-4-4--------5-----4----
G------6-------6------------7----------0--------5---5------0-----0-----
C----7----------------0----------0-------0--0-------------0------------
G--0------------------------------------------------------------4------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
D-----0----0----0----0--------0------------
C----2----2----2----2--------2-------------
G---0----0----0----0--------2--------------
C--------------------------2---------------
G--2----2----2----2-------0----------------
D------------------------0-----------------
DANIEL H MEANS
Simon Gregory
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Ray Langley wrote:
> R. McPherson wrote:
> >
> > The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
> > the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
Surely this would be an open Gsus4 tuning? I thought an open G tuning
would be GBDGBD (dobro tuning) or DBDGBD. This always happens- I think I
have grasp of simple concepts, then I go getting all confused.
Si
Mike Rejsa
I keep a list of songs/tunings I know (since I rarely play them).
Here's what I have for open G. Note that the low E can be left at E,
dropped to D, raised to F, or removed entirely ala Keef.
Brown Sugar (Stones)
Dancing Days (Led Zep)
Drinking Muddy Water (Yardbirds)
Happy (capo at 4)(Stones)
Hondy Tonk Woman (Stones)
Jesus Left Chicago (ZZ Top)
Tumbling Dice (capo at 4)(Stones)
Start Me Up (Stones)
Tush (ZZ Top)
You Can't Always Get What You Want (capo?)(Stones)
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Jim Pulling
You're absolutely right. Open G tuning should only have the notes G D
B.
Regards
Jim Pulling
Tomas Larsson
on Claptonæ„€ unplugged
Rolling and tumbeling
Walking blues
Running on faith
Check also Robert Johnson, Son House and many of the old slide players
Tom
brian andrew storvik
Try "Traveeling Riverside Blues", and "That's The Way", both by Zep, or
"A Song for Jeffery" by Jethro Tull.
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Ray Langley wrote:
> R. McPherson wrote:
> >
> > The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
> > the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
> > I promptly tuned a guitar to open G and have been playing that
> > one song for two days now.
> > Can someone please mention a few other songs that are in Open G
> > (or open A) so that I can stop sounding like a broken record
> > endlessly repeating Rain Song?
>
Andrew Wallace
>Brown Sugar (Stones)
>Dancing Days (Led Zep)
>Drinking Muddy Water (Yardbirds)
>Happy (capo at 4)(Stones)
>Hondy Tonk Woman (Stones)
>Jesus Left Chicago (ZZ Top)
>Tumbling Dice (capo at 4)(Stones)
>Start Me Up (Stones)
>Tush (ZZ Top)
>You Can't Always Get What You Want (capo?)(Stones)
We've recently started doing "Fearless" (Pink Floyd), another cool open-G song...
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Ryan BOOKER
>
> The Dec 93 Guitar World has Page saying the tuning is (low to hi) EADADE
> (one step lower on the studio version - DGCGCD). I tried this, sounds
> right to me...
>
> Chords are kind of like :
> -0----------0--------------------------------------------------------
> --7----------6----------5--3--2--3-----------------------------------
> ---0----------0---------4--0--0--3----2--4---------------------------
> ----7----------6--------5--3--3--3----2--2---------------------------
> -----0----------0---0---0--------0-0--0--0---------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> (not the actual rhythm, but you get the idea)
> Craig
>
>
YEP Rain Song is in DGCGCD tunning. That is the tunning that Jimmy Page
plays it in live (I saw Page & Plant last year). It can be played in
standard tunning, but it doesn't sound half as good.
Its a little more complex the above tab, but I'm not wasting the afternoon
writing it out. Once your in the tunning your should be able to work it
out easily enough.
Ryan
Randy Johnson (ADM)
R. McPherson (rjmc...@rigel.oac.uci.edu) wrote:
: Can someone please mention a few other songs that are in Open G
: (or open A) so that I can stop sounding like a broken record
: endlessly repeating Rain Song?
There are a number of traditional songs in open G - and one in open Gminor
that I am working on called "The Moon Shines Bright" - Renbourn - alot of
those old songs arranged for fingerstyle are in open G, in fact. Also open
D and DADGAD.
Randy Johnson
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Dr Thirsty
A lot of Rolling Stones stuff can be played in open G, try Brown Sugar and
Honkey Tonk Woman to start with. Also, rather obscure but beautiful is
"First Girl I loved" by the Incredible String Band
Dr Thirsty
Randy Johnson (ADM) <rand...@dudley.lib.usf.edu> wrote in article
<56cqaq$2...@news.usf.edu>...
Mark Anthony
I believe that the song "Bad Motor Scooter" by Montrose (with Sammy
Hagar singing) is in open G...but I cant find my tape of it, anyway it
is a good song to learn slide technique on...try it!
Any music theory questions can be sent to ka...@pcms.com and I will try
to answer it via return mail!
Mike Healy
In article <56ae9n$s...@news.informix.com>,
Andrew Wallace <an...@informix.com> wrote:
>>Brown Sugar (Stones)
>>Dancing Days (Led Zep)
>>Drinking Muddy Water (Yardbirds)
>>Happy (capo at 4)(Stones)
>>Hondy Tonk Woman (Stones)
>>Jesus Left Chicago (ZZ Top)
>>Tumbling Dice (capo at 4)(Stones)
>>Start Me Up (Stones)
>>Tush (ZZ Top)
>>You Can't Always Get What You Want (capo?)(Stones)
>
>We've recently started doing "Fearless" (Pink Floyd), another cool open-G song...
>
Yes! After getting turned on to open-G via Water Song (Hot Tuna), I stumbled
onto Fearless.
Open G is also great for acoustic slide blues such as It Hurts Me Too.
Mike Healy
he...@nosc.mil
Gene Johnson
Open G tuning, or what is commonly referred to as open G, is D G D G B D
low to high. The tuning you describe is an open suspended chord. The D G D
G B D tuning is the standard delta blues tuning.
There is another open G tuning used by dobro players: G B D G B D.
If you really want some open delta G stuff, go directly to the original
sources. I recommend The Complete Recordings of Robert Johnson 2 CD set.
Crossroad Blues, Come On In My Kitchen, Traveling Riverside Blues (the
original, Zep most certainly did not write that song), From Four Until
Late, Terraplane Blues. Johnny Shines also did Terraplane Blues under the
title of (I think) Dynaflow Blues. it Ry Cooder uses open G a lot. If you
can locate a recording of the soundtrack to the movie Preformance (cult
movie from about 1970, Mick Jagger & James Fox), check out Memo from
Turner, Cooder plays it in open G. Open G is a totally cool tuning and
great to jam with.
brian andrew storvik <sto...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote in article
<Pine.SOL.3.91.961112...@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu>...
Mike Rejsa
Oh, and I forgot to mention, on the Live Yardbirds album Page is actually
recorded changing his Tele into open G for Drinking Muddy Water. He just
pulls the A down to match the G, and the hi E down to match the D. In
other words, he is at E G D G B D.
Mike Rejsa
Just want to point out again that open G works with several different
approaches to the low E. Keef leaves it off entirely. Thusly for Stones
stuff it would seem that leaving it at E would work too (and is great
for Tush and 19th Nervous Breakdown).
Lots of folks here seem to want to drop it to D, and I can see that
no problem. Don't forget one other weirdity - if you *raise* it to F
it lets you drop in the low string for Start Me Up and gives you more
the sound of what the bass player does when by yourself - try it!
Howard Wright
R. McPherson (rjmc...@rigel.oac.uci.edu) wrote:
: On 12 Nov 1996, DANIEL H MEANS wrote:
: :I always thought it was in standard tuning. The book I learned it from
: :had the tab for standard tuning and it sounds completely right.
: OK, to stem further controversy I am posting the tab I follow.
: This is one of at least 6 tabs which are at OLGA. Two are in
: standard tuning, Two are in open A, one is in open G, and this
: one which is in open Gsus4 (DGCGCD). I believe this to be the
: most accurate of all the tabs. Try this and you too will be
: convinced.
: The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
: From low to high : D G C G C D
: D---0-------0--0--0----0-------0--0--0---------------------------------
: C----7------7--7--7-----6------6--6--6-------5-5-3-2---3----3--3-------
: G-----0-----0--0--0------0-----0--0--0-------4-4-4-4---3----3--3------
: C------7----7--7--7-------6----6--6--6-------5-5-5-5---3----3--3-------
: G-------0---0--0--0--------0---0--0--0---0---0---------0----0--0------
: D----------------------------------------------------------------------
: D-----------------0---0---0---0---0---0-0-----0---0---0---0---0---0-0--
: C-----------------11--9---12--11--4---9-9-----11--9---12--11--4---9-9--
: G-----2---4-4-----0---0---0---0---0---0-0-----0---0---0---0---0---0-0--
: C-----2---2-2-----11--9---12--11--4---9-9-----11--9---12--11--4---9-9--
: G-0-0-0---0-0-----0---0---0---0---0---8-8-----0---0---0---0---0---8-8--
: D---------------------------------------------------------------------
(Rest of tab deleted)
It's good that someone actually posted this tab from OLGA - but it's also
nice, as the one who transcribed it and typed it in, to get some credit
for the work! As a general rule, it is good netiquette to leave the name
and email address of the people who write these tabs, not just so that they
can bask in their 3 seconds of fame, but also so that if any questions
or queries arise, they can be sent to the person who did the work in the first
place.
I spent quite a long time working out this song (thanks to Jeff Lo for
the initial clues that got me going!) - so it would be nice to get a mention
for the work when it is reposted.
Howard
Howard Wright
DANIEL H MEANS (dhm...@omega.uta.edu) wrote:
: I always thought it was in standard tuning. The book I learned it from
: had the tab for standard tuning and it sounds completely right.
Listen to the song, try playing it from your book in standard tuning, and
it shouldn't take you very long to realise that :
(a) - to get it to sound even vaguely similar to the original, you need to use
some pretty awkward chord shapes !
and
(b) - to get it sounding EXACTLY like the orginal you *have* to use the
alternative tuning - DGCGCD.
Tune up to this tuning, and strum x07070 and x06060 - that should be enough
to convince you.
Howard
P.S I tabbed the whole thing - and can post it if there is anyone interested
ine it.
Tom Warren
My favorite:
Sailor's Grave on the Prairie - Leo Kottke or Tinsley Ellis
tom
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Henry F. Richards
Mike Rejsa wrote:
>
> Oh, and I forgot to mention, on the Live Yardbirds album Page is actually
> recorded changing his Tele into open G for Drinking Muddy Water. He just
> pulls the A down to match the G, and the hi E down to match the D. In
> other words, he is at E G D G B D.
>
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Cian Kinsella
Simon Gregory wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Ray Langley wrote:
>
> > R. McPherson wrote:
> > >
> > > The tab files for "Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin taught me that
> > > the song is in an open G tuning (D G C G C D).
>
> would be GBDGBD (dobro tuning) or DBDGBD. This always happens- I think I
> have grasp of simple concepts, then I go getting all confused.
Or DGDGBD! Is there an 'industry standard' for naming these?
Cian Kinsella
DANIEL H MEANS
Howard Wright (H.Wr...@astro.cf.ac.uk) wrote:
: DANIEL H MEANS (dhm...@omega.uta.edu) wrote:
: : I always thought it was in standard tuning. The book I learned it from
: : had the tab for standard tuning and it sounds completely right.
:
: Listen to the song, try playing it from your book in standard tuning, and
: it shouldn't take you very long to realise that :
Yeah a few of the chords were unusual, but nothing totally wacky. After a
while those chords get easy to play.
the weirdest one is probably:
---6---
---7---
---5---
---6---
-------
-------
it's not really hard at all.
The way I play it it starts like this :
--3----2---1---1---1---0---
--3----3---0---4---3---4----
--0----0---0---0---0---3---
--0----0---0---0---0---5--
--0----0---0---0---0---0--
--3----3---3---3---3---0--
It might not be the way Jimmy played it, but I think it sounds pretty
darn close. And I'd hate to have to retune everytime I wanted to play it.
Try those chords in standard and tell my if you disagree. Later,Daniel.
Mike Rejsa
I've always played it in standard. Then I tried Howards tab, and I love
it, except... the last part of the cycle (the part with the second
guitar) sounds much better to me in standard, the strings ring better.
The rest of it, no contest, Howards tab is the way to go.
Thanks for all the work, Howard. (There's your 3 seconds! ;) )
DANIEL H MEANS
Howard Wright (H.Wr...@astro.cf.ac.uk) wrote:
: DANIEL H MEANS (dhm...@omega.uta.edu) wrote:
: : I always thought it was in standard tuning. The book I learned it from
: : had the tab for standard tuning and it sounds completely right.
:
: Listen to the song, try playing it from your book in standard tuning, and
: it shouldn't take you very long to realise that :
:
: some pretty awkward chord shapes !
I you don't think that -0-- is awkward????
-2--
-4--
-5--
-0--
-x--
And I don't like how
--0--
--6--
--0--
--6--
--0--
--x--
sounds. the 6s and 0 on the G string sound very dischordand to me.
I think some of the chords in our different version are in fact the same
exact chords only played in a different tuning for example the chord in
your version that looks like an A shape on the 3 fret is exactly the same
as the chord I play except I play 043500 instead of 033300.
But other than that I think the way you have described sounds great, but
I think I'll stick to my way, even if it's not 100% correct.
Later,Daniel.
David McCluskey
> : Can someone please mention a few other songs that are in Open G
> : (or open A) so that I can stop sounding like a broken record
> : endlessly repeating Rain Song?
A lot of the songs on Clapton's Unplugged are in open G. Anything that
uses a slide like, Walkin' Blues, Rollin' and Tumblin', Running On Faith,
etc. There are a lot of slide songs in open G.
Also, of course, the Stones
For example:
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
Sweet Virginia
Tumbling Dice
Rocks Off, etc.
Mike Rejsa
: Also, of course, the Stones
: For example:
: Wild Horses
I think Wild Horses is in the 'Nashville' tuning, which is standard
tuning except you use all little string so the voicing is different.
Aaron Bucky
In article <56kis0$8...@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Mike Rejsa
<mi...@primenet.com> wrote:
> : Also, of course, the Stones
> : For example:
> : Wild Horses
>
> I think Wild Horses is in the 'Nashville' tuning, which is standard
> tuning except you use all little string so the voicing is different.
There are three guitars on this song as originally recorded. One (the
electric that plays the leads) is in standard tuning. Of the two
acoustics, one is in Nashville tuning (just like stadard, except that
instead of bass strings, you use lighter treble strings, tuned an octave
above where the bass strings would be). The other is in open G.
--
Aaron Bucky, Haverford College class of '97
Classics major - Beatles fan - living in the past
Ron Traweek
How is the open G tuned? I know the duning of open E and D, but have never
tried open G.
Kay-Uwe Graw
Ron Traweek wrote:
>
> How is the open G tuned? I know the duning of open E and D, but have never
> tried open G.
>
D B D G B D (from low to high)
Randal
Low open G - D G D G B D
Hi open G - G B D G B D (I got this out of a Ry Cooder book)
Kay-Uwe Graw (kug...@informatik.uni-rostock.de) wrote:
Jeff Beck peut-etre?
Pretty much every single signifcant Stones song after 1972. Try the tracks
on Exile On Main St, which is the album where Ry Cooder taught Keef how to
using the open G tuning.
Friends Of Animals
Love At The Five And Dime by Nanci Griffith is
open G- Capo 3rd Fret.
Bill
Leonard Watkins
A GREAT recording to learn to play slide in Open G is Muddy Waters
"Rare and Unissued"....Some really great slide tunes by the KING.
Leonard
Susan McNamara
Joni Mitchell has several songs in open G tuning including The Circle
Game, Little Green, Marcie, Nathan LaFraneer, Morning Morgantown.
Also she does Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire and Don't Interrupt the
Sorrow in a slight variation: C G D G B D
Check out some of the tabs at the Joni Mitchell Discussion list page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ljirvin/index.html
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"It's all a dream she has awake" - Joni Mitchell
Joyce M. Wilson
The Black Crows play many open G tunes. "4+20" by Crosby Stills Nash And
Young from the Deja Vous album, also "Thats the Way" by Led Zeppelin
Joel Siegel
In article <329942...@esslink.com>,
Joyce M. Wilson <17, Harmony, Hill, Rd> wrote:
>The Black Crows play many open G tunes. "4+20" by Crosby Stills Nash And
>Young from the Deja Vous album, also "Thats the Way" by Led Zeppelin
I believe 4+20 (as well as Suite: Judy Blue Eyes) is in DADDAD tuning.
Joel
Ray Wood
Cory Block's videotape "Learn to play Delta Blues" is 90% in open G.
She does lots of songs, and shows various turnarounds and techniques
for open G playing.
jpden...@aol.com
Open G tunings? Here's a couple.
Greg Brown, "The Poet Game"
Nancy Griffith, "Love at the Five and Dime"
ol...@ohsu.edu
That's Rory not Cory short for Aurora
In article <57huck$7...@Mars.mcs.net> slug...@MCS.COM (Ray Wood) writes:
>From: slug...@MCS.COM (Ray Wood)
>Subject: Re: Name some open G tuning songs please.
>Date: 27 Nov 1996 11:39:32 -0600
rsrg...@aol.com
Can you repost the earlier responses? I had a thread of about 30 on Open
G but it became stale and got purged.
------Patrick
R. McPherson
I compiled this list from posts to the newsgroup.
I have not verified the accuracy of each suggestion.
This is a list of songs which use alternate/open tunings.
Please post more "open-tuning" songs and I will update the list.
rjmc...@uci.edu
Song (artist) tuning (654321)
Rain Song (Led Zeppelin) DGCGCd (open Gsus4)
In My Time of Dyin' (Led Zeppelin) DGDGBd (open G)
Start Me Up (Rolling Stones) DGDGBd (open G)
Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones) xGDGBd (open G)
Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) DGDGBd (open G)
Can't You Hear Me Knockin' (Rolling Stones) DGDGBd (open G)
Spanish Flangdang (Elizabeth Cotton) DGDGBd (open G)
Walking Blues (R.Johnson, see EC "Unplugged") DGDGBd (open G)
Motherless Child (see Clapton"From the cradle") DGDGBd (open G)
Come On In My Kitchen (Robert Johnson) EAEAC#e (open A)
Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson) CGDGBe
Bad to the Bone (at least I play it that way)
All Down the Line (Stones)
Can't You Hear Me knockin' (Stones)
Tumblin' Dice (stones)
Sweet Virginia (stones)
Easy to Slip (Little Feat)
Dancin' Days (zeppelin)
Jesus Just Left Chicago (ZZ Top)
Squeezebox (the Who)
"Fearless" (Pink Floyd), another cool open-G song
on Claptons unplugged:
Rolling and tumbeling
Walking blues
Running on faith
Bad to the Bone (thorogood)
"First Girl I loved" by the Incredible String Band
"Bad Motor Scooter" by Montrose
Sailor's Grave on the Prairie - Leo Kottke or Tinsley Ellis
Water Song (Hot Tuna)
Love At The Five And Dime by Nanci Griffith is
open G- Capo 3rd Fret.
Joni Mitchell has several songs in open G tuning including The Circle
Game, Little Green, Marcie, Nathan LaFraneer, Morning Morgantown.
Also she does Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire and Don't Interrupt the
Sorrow in a slight variation: C G D G B D
She Talks To Angels - The Black Crowes E-B-E-G#-B-E (E)
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Stephen Stills
Neil Young uses double dropped D-tuning (low and high) also
for Ride My Llama and War Of Man
Nirvana: All Apologies
Allman Bros: Midnight Rider