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Last Updated: 11/18/2009

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 

people have asked me about guitar tunings and capoing etc... here's a rundown:

sugar baby: tuning is GDGDBD (aka keith richards tuning and a lot of robert johnson's stuff also); capo 4
little johnny brown: standard
saro: standard, capo 3
wild bill jones: standard
little satchel: standard, capo 5 maybe? 7? i forget. probably 5
all is well: standard

chicken album-
levi: DADF#AD capo 3
head over heels/1842: DADGF#D capo 4
roll on john: DADF#AD capo 3 i think
 (incidentally this is the tuning that joni mitchell uses almost all the time, and that bob dylan uses on blood on the tracks and in a bunch of other places)
louis collins: standard
tribulation: standard, capo 3







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jaybird.

 
thank you so much for this,
i've asked you about
stuff like this, numerous times haha.


i've been trying to figure out
Saro and O Death for a while now,
and this should definitely
help out with Saro.

 
Posted by jaybird. on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 6:52 AM
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K

 
Not to be le douche, but I think the blood on the tracks tuning is: DADF#AD, It's my favorite despite constantly breaking my high E on the tune back. I think Doug Martsch uses *it here and there on his solo album as it lends itself well to slide guitar. I rock it out in the shower all the time.


*maybe that's an open G?? Fred McDowell uses that on his "The First Recordings." It's great and it was recorded on his porch in '59 by Alan Lomax. Name that tuning is a fun game.
I wonder what Sonic Youth uses?

PS

Your version of Saro is excellent. It has replaced Iris Dement's version on my playlist, but her Our Town is still kickin'.

 
Posted by K on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 4:34 AM
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Samamidon

 
thank you K for fixing my mistake! i have corrected it in the post above
 
Posted by Samamidon on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 9:44 PM
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surfacediver

 
Thanks for the guitar tunings! Would you mind posting the banjo tuning for Fall on my Knees?
 
Posted by surfacediver on Saturday, April 04, 2009 - 3:49 PM
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Samamidon

 
gCGCD
 
Posted by Samamidon on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 5:57 PM
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(Rob)

 
This is cool.  Thanks.
 
Posted by (Rob) on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 8:50 PM
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Chris Tolliver

 
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