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RE: bass and strum stick tunings
Title: Message
DADGAD was invented by British guitarist Davey Graham and is used
by many of the great guitarists from the British folk scene, including Bert
Jansch... whom Page has acknowledged as a huge influence.
Graham's recordings are a mixed bag but the best of his stuff is
really great, an EXTREMELY early sort of fusion.
Howl Din
Okay, the tuning I was
thinking of is D A D G A D. I call this the Kashmir tuning as that's how
I first learned it. I believe this is also the tuning for White
Summer/Black Mountain side and a host of other songs. On the No
Quarter/Unledded album, I'm able to play about half the songs in this tuning
including the deliciously slow and slinky version of Nobody's Fault But Mine
that opens it up.
This is another tuning with great drone potential,
though the fingerings are a bit spidery thanks to that G string. On
occasion I've just tuned that right up to A, in unison with the 2nd
string. It gives the fingers a break, but you obviously lose that Sus4
underlying resonance.
Another one that I haven't played with much is
the Friends tuning, C G C G C E. I just found it on a quick look-up and
I'm surprised how close it is to the Rain Song. I'll have to play with
that one tonight. :)
Drone on,
Todd
On 5/10/06, Todd
Pafford <calenlas@gmail.com>
wrote:
:) 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).