12stringer
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Just discovered this tuning and am learning the song Goin' To Caifornia by Led Zepplin...what a treat to play this song...I have done drop D tuning before but this is just great!
Pappy said:Sometimes I tune my acoustic DADADD because it doesn't have a truss rd and I don't have to worry about messing it up. It's really cool doubling up the high Ds and doing double stops that sound exactly alike. And fretting the same fret on the open A strings and moving those around make for some pretty cool sounds too. I got it from a Creed song, but it's still a good tuning.;-)
Andy Hiwatt said:this sounds very strange to me..I always thought that Going To California was originally played in a "Dropped D " tuning: DADGBE....I played it like that for ages, I even developed an arrangement in a standard tuning ,that is pretty identical to the dropped D tuning ,except for the bass D string...
Another fine Led Zep tune ( but mutuated from the great Bert Jansch and Davey Graham arrangements) is "Blackmountainside" played in DADGAD..and while you're there you can mix it with "White Summer" also in the same tuning....have fun!!!!
As Curly from the three stooges said...."Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk" :lol:JerryR said:Time to tray Iraqui tuning again :?: BAGDAD :mrgreen:
Sounds like an F512 will be finding it's way to you soon? I am currently on the skulk for a "Banjer"dreadnut said:If there's anything I miss about my F-512, it's "Goin' To California"...
I just had a look at the youtube of led zep's Goin to California" and Jimmy is definitely using the double drop d tuning DADGBD...I like the way it sounds and it is pretty neat to play around with too! The hi d adds that mystical openess to the sound especially when playing the "A" chord (x07650) and the "D" chord (000775) up at the 5th fret. Another neat chord is at the beginning of the bridge (000767)....lotsa fun! :wink:Zol said:Nice topic! I've always done Going to California with a DGDGBE tuning! - not sure if it's what's on the albim, but it's worked for me. Another nice tuning that Page uses, and I think this is correct - but not 100%, it's in Bron-Yr-Aur and a couple others. CACGCE. Peace - Z