My collection of guitar tunings

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Hey, I like those, toyL - a few songs I always wondered about, but was too lazy to figure out :rolleyes:

Now, you wouldn't happen to know Steve Hackett's tuning to "More Fool Me" on Genesis' Selling England by the Pound, would you ... ? :p
 
for the lazy

ALTERNATE TUNINGS (??? meaning often times they don’t really have a “name” for these tunings)

Dmodal flat—DflatAflatDflatGflatAflatDflat (Jimmy Page on very rare perhaps even unpublished recordings)
Dmodal —DADGAD LedZep—“Kashmir” and “Black Mountain Side”
Pierre Bensusan—“Sololai” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (Bach)
David Wilcox—“Strong Chemistry”
Steven Stills—“Tree Top Flyer”
??? —CGDGBE Soundgarden—“Limo Wreck” and “Mailman”
Lindsey Buckingham—“Never Going Back Again”
??? —BADGBE Soundgarden—“Holy Water” and “Rusty Cage”
??? —CGCGGE Soundgarden—“Half”
??? —CFCGBE Soundgarden—“Fourth of July”
??? —DGDGBC Soundgarden—“Like Suicide”
??? —EEBBBB Soundgarden—“The Day I Tried To Live” and “My Wave”
??? —DGCGCD LedZep—“The Rain Song”
??? —CFCFAF LedZep—“Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
??? —FACFAC LedZep—“When the Levee Breaks”
??? —CGCFAD Nirvana—“Something In The Way”
??? —C#G#C#F#A#D# Nirvana—“Heart Shaped Box”
??? —DADACD Van Halen—“Top Jimmy”
??? —EBEEBE CSNY—“Suite Judy Blue Eyes”
??? —EGDGED Sonic Youth—“Dirty Boots”
??? —BDDDDD ???
??? —EEEEEE ???
??? —EEBBBB ???
??? —EEBBEF# ???
??? —EG#EG#EG# ???
??? —BEDDBB ???
??? —GBDGBG ???
Open C —CGCGCE LedZep—“Hats Off to Roy Harper”
Eminor —EBEGBE Skip James—“Hard Time Killin’ Floor”
C6 —CACGCE LedZep—“bron-yr-aur” and “Friends”
C6th —CGCGAE Hawaiin Mauna Loa style
G6th —DGDGBE Soundgarden—“Superunknown” and “Fresh Tendrils”
Chet Atkins—“Yellow Bird”
Adrian Legg—“Chicken Little’s Last Stand”
Open G —DGDGBD Soundgarden—also on “Superunknown”
Jeff Becks version of “A Day in the Life” also works well here.
LedZep—“Going to California”
StoneTemplePilots—“Big Empty”
Rolling Stones—“Brown Sugar”, “Start Me Up”, “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin”, “Honky-Tonk Women”, and many more.
Clapton—“Motherless Child”
Ry Cooder—“On A Monday” and “Little Sister”
Open G—capo 2nd fret = (A) Robt. Johnson—“Come On In My Kitchen”
LedZep—“In My Time Of Dying”
Bonnie Raitt—“Thing Called Love”
Open G flat–D#G#D#G#B#D# LedZep—“That’s The Way”

Open D —DADF#AD Pearl Jam—“Even Flow”
Clapton—“Blues Before Sunrise”
Elmore James—“Dust My Broom”
D minor —DADFAD ???
D6/9 —DADF#BE ???
Open E —EBEG#BE Black Crowes—“She Talks to Angels”
Clapton—“How Long Blues”
Robt. Johnson—“Sweet Home Chicago”, “Hellhound On My Trail”
Dbl Drop D —DADGBD Neil Young—“Cinnamon Girl”
Eric Johnson—“Song For George”
Steven Stills—“Bluebird”
Drop D —DADGBE Soundgarden—“Spoonman”, “Black Hole Sun”, “Let Me Drown”
Alice In Chains—“Them Bones”
Joe Satriani—“Friends”, “Midsummer’s Daydream”
Rage Against the Machine—“Killing in the Name”, “Take the Power Back”, “Freedom”, “Wakeup”
Van Halen—“Unchained”
The Beatles—“Dear Prudence”

EXPERIMENTAL TUNINGS:

COMMON SLIDE & DOBRO TUNINGS: (some examples shown above)
Open A —EAEAC#E
Open D —DADF#AD
D maj 7th —DADF#AC#
D minor —DADFAD
Open E —EBEG#BE
Open G —DGDGBD
G minor —DGDGBflatD
Dobro G —GBDGBD
D6th Lap Steel —DADF#BD
 
teknomike said:
Hey, I like those, toyL - a few songs I always wondered about, but was too lazy to figure out :rolleyes:

Now, you wouldn't happen to know Steve Hackett's tuning to "More Fool Me" on Genesis' Selling England by the Pound, would you ... ? :p
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Steve Hackett's tuning to "More Fool Me"???
Not familiar with that tune, but if you provide me a link to where I can hear the first few bars (NOT to download a pirated copy) of it I'll be VERY happy to figure it out.
I checked at tabcrawler.com and ultimate-guitar.com and none of the tabs seem to indicate an alternate tuning. http://www.tabcrawler.com/search.ph...name=more+fool+me+chords&tabtype=guitar+chord
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/g/genesis/more_fool_me_crd.htm
 
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cello_pudding said:
for the lazy...
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...yeh, that's IT--LAZY--just like Clapton is known as "slow-hand"...have a look see at johnny winter, robt. johnson, cream, page, richards, vai, elmore james, muddy waters, magic-slim, willie higgins, duane allman...yeh, they were all LAZY...you're absolutely correct...most of them were/are also VERY rich, well-respected, and quite accomplished...you got something against LAZY?...I mean, sure, it doesn't work so well at the gym, but being "laid-back" on stage or in the studio can really come across as intense.
 
toyL said:
...yeh, that's IT--LAZY--just like Clapton is known as "slow-hand"...have a look see at johnny winter, robt. johnson, cream, page, richards, vai, elmore james, muddy waters, magic-slim, willie higgins, duane allman...yeh, they were all LAZY...you're absolutely correct...most of them were/are also VERY rich, well-respected, and quite accomplished...you got something against LAZY?...I mean, sure, it doesn't work so well at the gym, but being "laid-back" on stage or in the studio can really come across as intense.
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cello-pudding wasn't talking about the tunings or the players who use them. He was talking to those of us too lazy to go through the website you linked.
 
tdukex said:
cello-pudding wasn't talking about the tunings or the players who use them. He was talking to those of us too lazy to go through the website you linked.
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you sir, are correct.
 
tdukex said:
cello-pudding wasn't talking about the tunings or the players who use them. He was talking to those of us too lazy to go through the website you linked.
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Yeh, I'd call that LAZY alright. Nothing especially wrong with being lazy. In fact, my neurologist prescribes a daily 20mg dose of pure amphetamine for me and I'm still fairly LAZY. Good to hear from ya.
 
toyL said:
Steve Hackett's tuning to "More Fool Me"???
Not familiar with that tune, but if you provide me a link to where I can hear the first few bars (NOT to download a pirated copy) of it I'll be VERY happy to figure it out.
I checked at tabcrawler.com and ultimate-guitar.com and none of the tabs seem to indicate an alternate tuning. http://www.tabcrawler.com/search.ph...name=more+fool+me+chords&tabtype=guitar+chord
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/g/genesis/more_fool_me_crd.htm
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Hmmm, haven't been able to find anything (video, etc). Will see what I can do.
I haven't seen any tabs that have shown an alternate tuning either, but you can definitely tell from the song.
 
I always thought The Rain Song is in Open G. And that Braun Yr Aur Stomp is in Open D, capo at 3rd Fret.
 
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