Re: bass and strum stick tunings

["Todd Pafford" <calenlas@gmail.com>]

:)  You're welcome!  There's another similar tuning I'll have to look
up when I get home.  It's used on almost the entirety of the Page &
Plant "Unledded" album.  (Which is to me damn close to musical
nirvana...all the acoustic playing + Egyptian orchestra =
out-of-this-Fing-world.)  I'll get back to the list tonight with the
tuning.

Todd


On 5/10/06, loop.pool <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> oooooh, ooooooh, oooooh, ooooooh
>
> thank you for this post, Todd.
>
> I love Page's acoustic playing (especially on the entire Led Zepellin 3
> record)
> and always wondered how he tuned (but never got off my ass to actually
> research it).
>
> I got an incredible deal on a 12 string guitar recently (It's a very nice
> hummingbird copy)
> and it's really sweet.
>
> I'm going right this minute to put it into that tuning.
>
> I just love drones, having played a lot of 3rd world ethnic music in my
> career for a very long time.
> Moving chords over static bass lines
>
> moving harmony by moving the bass line under static chords to create 
>harmony
> is really beautiful to me.
>
> thanks, thanks, thanks!!!!!
>
>
> todd wrote:
> "Likewise, that's almost my favorite 6-string acoustic stell-string
> tuning:  C G C G C D.  Note that the top four strings are just a step
> lower.  Of course, I can't take credit for this one as it's the tuning
> Jimmy Page used for the Rain Song and aparently now for most of his
> guitar playing.The beauty of this one is in the drones.  Simple two-three
> finger
> chord shapes can be slid up and down the neck and wonderful harmonies
> against the drones can be found all over the place."
>
>