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Tele Master
02-02-2003, 10:46 AM
I am really experimenting with Open G, Open E, and Open D tuning. What are some good songs that have any of these type of tunings, or other types of open tunings.
I already know a bunch of songs with open tuning:
Brown Sugar
Start Me Up
Street Fighting Man
You Can't Always Get What You Want
and most of all the other Stones songs with open tuning. I am looking for different artists who also make use of the open tunings.

mc9mm
02-02-2003, 06:41 PM
I think "going to california" by Zeppelin is in open c tuning.
Its a great song.
Open C tuning sounds wonderful, its very folk-ish-type-something, sort of.
Listen to this example, and you'll know what I mean.
Its a short bit from a song published in Total Guitar magazine, I dont know whether its an artist or the people at TG who has come up with the song.

http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/trick.php?trick_id=4330

shemp59
09-03-2005, 06:34 PM
a fun one is led zeppelin's "friends"....i think it's in open f

R. Shackleferd
09-04-2005, 07:33 PM
a fun one is led zeppelin's "friends"....i think it's in open f
True and false...it is fun, but it's in open C: CGCGCE
Another one of theirs in that tuning I know of is "Hats Off To Roy Harper", a blues slide track. This is prolly one of my favorite tunings too. Actually I usually flat the high E to make it an open Cminor tuning. Dropping it again to D is kinda cool too. I'd just be wary of trying to tune too many strings above their standard...extra stress on the neck (not to mention the strings).