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I'm The One You Love

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Sep 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/26/97
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Anyone know any chord forms in Open D tuning? For those that don't
know, open D tuning is

High to low

D
A
A
D
A
D

Gets a great twelve string effect....

elizabeth & chris

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Sep 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/26/97
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Who needs chords? Just stick your finger across the neck and crank up
your distortion and go "dah, dah, dah dah dah," like B&B!

But seriously...
004300 or 000034 for 7,
003300 or 000033 for m7,
004400 or 000044 for M7,

These are really annoying for me (a bass player with decent reach that
occasionally plays guitar) to barre. I don't think that open tuning was
made for regular chords.
It might be simpler to change one of those A's to an F or F# (DADFAD) so
that you could play the whole chord with the third without much trouble,
and then add notes to the basic chord for color.

But then again, what is the motivation for using an open tuning? Slide
guitar is the common application, but there may be another reason.

ChriStevie

Cypher

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Sep 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/27/97
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I'm The One You Love <mjohn...@texas.net> wrote:

> Anyone know any chord forms in Open D tuning? For those that don't
> know, open D tuning is
>
> High to low
>
> D
> A
> A
> D
> A
> D

Cool! Thanks! I'm jamming on it now!
Hey wait a minute... This is how Great White plays "Man in the Sky".
Whoa!

-Cypher

RJClayton

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Sep 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/28/97
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Mjohn...@texas.net wrote:

>For those that don't
>know, open D tuning is
>
>High to low
>
>D
>A
>A
>D
>A
>D
>
>

Actually, that's not the open D I (and fifty jillion old bottleneck blues
players) know. Try (low to high -- the typical stroke direction and usual
way of notating tunings)

DADF#AD

That's a full (it gots a third in it) major chord, and is the typical
formation. The IV chord (G) is 020120 and the V chord (A7) is 202102. An
A chord (no 7th) is 202302. The "modal" chord (C) is X3213X (X= damped
strings); try fingering X32132 for a C chord with the high E in it!

You can use your knowledge of the notes what makes other chords and
figure out your fingerings as well. Like I said, it's a great slide and
bottleneck tuning, 'cause the tonic note is on the first string.

Bob (jus' slippin' around) Clayton, Sr.

Home of the Songster at <http://members.aol.com/rjclayton/>

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of
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