Hi all You were right about the EBDGAD tuning for Guinevere. That's the one!
Incidentally, Joni has used this same tuning on a few of songs: e.g. Sex Kills, Lead Balloon - in Joni notation these tunings are C73525 and D73525). That just means the lowest notes are C/D not E, but the relationship between the open string notes is the same. Guinevere is a GREAT song to play. I've seen a couple of magazine transcriptions, and they were both pretty good. The main "riff" that crops up in the verse is based on 022000 - just hammer on to the 2nd fret notes from the open strings (you probably already figured this out!). Howard P.S Sue - you're too generous with your praise (and I think your emails might be bad for my ego...) ;-) Susan McNamara wrote: > > Dear Bobsart: > > Guinnevere is a classy song, but I've never played it. I looked at > the two tabs on Olga and they both confer with the EBDGAD tuning. > Alas, there's no way to tell if this is right because the words > "Howard Wright" don't appear under the tabbed by listing. :-) > > I am copying this note to the Wanderer list to see if any of our > stalwart tuning experts want to chime in on this dilemma. > > Thanks, sue > > At 9:25 AM -0400 4/20/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Following up on Lama's post: > > > > I have listened to CSN (the CD) a few times since Christmas, after > > not having listened in almost 30 years (I had the album, and played > > it to death for a couple of years after it came out in 1969). During > > that time, Guinnevere was not one of my favorites on the record, to > > say the least (but remeber, I quit on Joni's new work for a long, > > long time when I could not "get" THOSL or Hejira - 'ugh' for the > > umpteenth time). > > > > Anyway, I have now decided that I like this song the best on the > > record (with Wooden Ships a close second - and I have always loved > > the record). I think this is again because my ears have gotten > > better, finally. It occurs to me that this is a song that could hold > > its own in a collection of Joni's best work - high praise to David. > > And it makes me wonder if maybe David did have an influence on > > Joni's music. > > > > Can any of you guitar tab masters tell me what the tuning is for > > Guinnevere ? I will try fiddling with it in EBDGAD, on the off > > chance that that works. It does not sound like standard tuning to my > > ears, but I could easily be wrong. > > > > Bobsart > > > > Lama wrote > > > >> Did Joel show David open tunings? > >> > >> On the sleeve notes of a 1993 re-release of "Crosby, Stills and > >> Nash", Raymond Foye wrote: > >> > >> >>>>>>>> > >> >From its hypnotic opening notes, David Crosby's "Guinnevere" > >> creates a space unlike any other in rock music. "When all my > >> friends > >> were listening to Elvis Presley, I was listening to 1950s West > >> Coast jazz," Crosby notes. Later, Crosby's divergent musical > >> sensibility was further inspired by a close association with Joni > >> Mitchell, whose unusual repertoire of guitar tunings heightened > >> his increasingly oblique musical sense, taking him another step > >> away from standard rock formulas. > >> > >> > >> Fellow musician Joel Bernstein recalls that for Crosby, "the > >> discovery of non-standard tunings was the opening the little door > >> in > >> 'Alice in Wonderland'." By literally rearranging the tones on his > >> guitar (the tuning is EBDGAD), Crosby tapped into a creative > >> well-spring that produced "Deja Vu" and "Song With No Words," > >> within a very short space of time.>>>>>>>> > >> > >> checking in from the NJC digest, > >> Lama > > > > -- > > > > > > Susan McNamara > Assistant to the Dean of Students > Cornell University > 401 Willard Straight Hall > Ithaca, NY 14853 > Voice: (607) 255-1115 > FAX: (607) 255-8082 > E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
