RE: bass and strum stick tunings

["Dean, Hal " <HDEAN@wcupa.edu>]

Title: Message

DADGAD was invented by British guitarist Davey Graham and is used by many of the great guitarists from the British folk scene, including Bert Jansch... whom Page has acknowledged as a huge influence.

 

Graham's recordings are a mixed bag but the best of his stuff is really great, an EXTREMELY early sort of fusion.

 

Howl Din

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Pafford [mailto:calenlas@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:09 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: bass and strum stick tunings

Okay, the tuning I was thinking of is D A D G A D.  I call this the Kashmir tuning as that's how I first learned it.  I believe this is also the tuning for White Summer/Black Mountain side and a host of other songs.  On the No Quarter/Unledded album, I'm able to play about half the songs in this tuning including the deliciously slow and slinky version of Nobody's Fault But Mine that opens it up.

This is another tuning with great drone potential, though the fingerings are a bit spidery thanks to that G string.  On occasion I've just tuned that right up to A, in unison with the 2nd string.  It gives the fingers a break, but you obviously lose that Sus4 underlying resonance.

Another one that I haven't played with much is the Friends tuning, C G C G C E.  I just found it on a quick look-up and I'm surprised how close it is to the Rain Song.  I'll have to play with that one tonight. :)

Drone on,
Todd

On 5/10/06, Todd Pafford <calenlas@gmail.com> wrote:

:)  You're welcome!  There's another similar tuning I'll have to look
up when I get home.  It's used on almost the entirety of the Page &
Plant "Unledded" album.  (Which is to me damn close to musical
nirvana...all the acoustic playing + Egyptian orchestra =
out-of-this-Fing-world.)  I'll get back to the list tonight with the
tuning.

Todd


On 5/10/06, loop.pool < looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> oooooh, ooooooh, oooooh, ooooooh
>
> thank you for this post, Todd.
>
> I love Page's acoustic playing (especially on the entire Led Zepellin 3
> record)
> and always wondered how he tuned (but never got off my ass to actually
> research it).