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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | The title pretty much sez it all...
I finally decided to tune one of my electrics to Open G and play around with it.
[I have enough of them, I finally figured 'why not tune one of them to Open G']
Any suggestions? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | plenty of Keef and the Stones
HonkyTonk Woman
Cant Alway Get What You Want
Brown Sugar
Wild Horses
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thank You Jeff... I meant to add, Besides 'Brown Sugar' :D
No, really I tuned it that way to just goof-around with Brown Sugar, then once I got it there I decided "Hey, this sounds cool!"
Even just doing the arpeggio thing, this is really nice.
Plus I can play almost any simple rock thing without a who lot of thought!
But I googled-up some chord shapes for G tuning, and found some site that recommended tuning G-G-D-G-B-D so if you don't correctly mute the sixth string it's okay. Plus you get a fuller sounding open strum, plus you double-up on the G for that thumpa-thumpa thing.
So I said to myself; "Self! This is fun, we need to explore this!" |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Tumbling Dice
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Start Me Up.... |
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Location: big island | just compose some OMA songs. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ... so, OMA, why not be brave and just play a banjo? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Too hard! And good banjos (oxymoron) are down-right expensive...
BTW-- I left all six strings on the Pseudo-Strat.
So I ain't going for the five-string twangy-twangy. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Both Sides Now - Listen to Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' to hear how it's done....
...and send me tabs when you get it figgered. |
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Location: GA USA | I looked around on youtube, and here's one you should try, Romeo & Juliette (Mark Knopfler) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Or Romeo without Annette. |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Or Led Zep's 'That's the Way'. It's a good crowd pleaser. A good friend and I played this at our local pub buskers night a few weeks back - he sang and played 'mandolin' on his 84C with a capo at the 12th fret. I used my 1758 for the main guitar parts; it sounded wonderful! Both tuned to open G. We went down a storm.
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Location: NJ | Ditto!! on "That'sTheWay".
That's one of my favorites GigTunes!
(There's a few others on ZepIII that're OpenG)
I seem t'recall "ThRainSong" being in G as well . . .
Clapton's "Me&Mr.Johnson" has a lot in G, as well.
"If I Had Possesion Over Judgement Day" is a GoodOne.
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Yep Cliff, the Rain Song is another great pick. Now I know, but not before I spent literally years trying to use the lamentable official tab for this song in standard tuning, and fill in the (considerable) missing parts. I came to the conclusion that Jimmy Page must have extra fingers/hands and a handspan approaching two feet! THEN I tried open G, and all is revealed...
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Frampton's "Penny For Your Thoughts" is a quick Open G instrumental if you're just looking for material... |
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Location: NJ | That's GOOD One!! |
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Frampton's "Penny For Your Thoughts" is a quick Open G instrumental if you're just looking for material...
Wasn't too hard in normal tuning though - I used a lot of the same fingerings going up and down the fretboard that are used in McCartney's Blackbird. |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | I've just started with non-standard tunings, and, believe me SB, it's a WHOLE new world! Amazing...
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Song Suggestions for Open G Tuning...
