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Azrael
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Azrael
Gargoyle Instructor
Joined: 04/06/01
Posts: 2,093
02/29/2004 12:33 am
i personally love the tuning Joni Mitchell used in "this flight tonight"

The tuning for this is based on an open G ( DGDGBD ) but with the
bottom string tuned right down to a very low, flappy G, so the
actual tuning is GGDGBD.
Joni herself uses this notation - she writes normal tuning as :

E 5 5 5 4 5

i.e tune bottom string to an E, then play 5th fret and tune next
string to this, 5th fret, 5th fret, 4th fret, 5th fret.

Get the idea ?

So the tuning for this song is :


G 12 7 5 4 3

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