Open Tuning Songs


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02/02/2003 4:46 pm
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.
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mc9mm
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02/03/2003 12:41 am
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
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shemp59
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09/03/2005 11:34 pm
a fun one is led zeppelin's "friends"....i think it's in open f
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R. Shackleferd
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09/05/2005 12:33 am
Originally Posted by: shemp59a 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).
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