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<blockquote data-quote="MadDogs" data-source="post: 2960895" data-attributes="member: 11175"><p>I like to play in different tunings and always keep a guitar in open G. Here is an interesting one. Pete Townshend is playing a Dave Wakeling (English Beat) tune. </p><p></p><p>For those that don't play, some songs like this one ... and "Iris" by John Rezeznik are great examples of songs not played in standard or what is called "concert tuning". Unless you figure out how they are tuned, you can get close but not right. </p><p></p><p>Same with a lot of the songs by the Rolling Stones. Jumping Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Happy, Ventilator Blues (riff dripping in cool), Start Me Up and many others are in open G tuning where you strum your guitar without fretting and it is a G chord (if one were to "choke" the guitar with a capo at the fifth fret, strumming it would be a C). Lot of old blues cats used this "Spanish Tuning" ... Change tuning on three strings from EADGBE to DGDGBD, plug a Tele into a Fender amp and ... boom. </p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]pQ0zMDJKkbg[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MadDogs, post: 2960895, member: 11175"] I like to play in different tunings and always keep a guitar in open G. Here is an interesting one. Pete Townshend is playing a Dave Wakeling (English Beat) tune. For those that don't play, some songs like this one ... and "Iris" by John Rezeznik are great examples of songs not played in standard or what is called "concert tuning". Unless you figure out how they are tuned, you can get close but not right. Same with a lot of the songs by the Rolling Stones. Jumping Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Happy, Ventilator Blues (riff dripping in cool), Start Me Up and many others are in open G tuning where you strum your guitar without fretting and it is a G chord (if one were to "choke" the guitar with a capo at the fifth fret, strumming it would be a C). Lot of old blues cats used this "Spanish Tuning" ... Change tuning on three strings from EADGBE to DGDGBD, plug a Tele into a Fender amp and ... boom. [MEDIA=youtube]pQ0zMDJKkbg[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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