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dadrob
Mathijs, I am not here to argue ( God I hate that crap on boards) but I am sure MT is is standard. He played it is standard on Ladies n Gents and when he plays without a slide during the 69 tour on this song the licks are very clearly in standard. he has the country style bend that needs the high E string. I worked out those solos ages ago. You can of course continue to hold your opinion but my eyes and ears tell me otherwise. There are low string runs that have to be standard and since the song is in G MT can work those three middle strings like crazy ..I am assuming you play guitar so this is not gibberish to you.
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dadrob
all that makes sense....uTubers just tune down the high E to D..It works nicely that way..
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His Majesty
His les paul is tuned to open G at Hyde Park.
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TheflyingDutchman
Things are sloppy and terribly out of tune.
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NathanLaze
playing solo in g tuning after a slide work is impossible. g tuning is for chord work... one has to relearn
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NathanLaze
by the way, jjf is not an open g either watch your copy of circus darlings.... main riff is keef playin e major then open g&d strings... satisfaction's the same, e,f#,g and back and forth
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NathanLaze
but you can't play solo on open tuning. only scales
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TheflyingDutchman
Mick Taylor advised to practice slide starting off with open tuning if you really want to master it.
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TheflyingDutchman
Mick Taylor advised to practice slide starting off with open tuning if you really want to master it.
I would advise the contrary. When you play slide in open tuning I find it difficult to extend beyond the standard licks, the ones we've all heard and played a thousand times. When you play slide in standard tuning it really worked for me to basically play the same solo's you play with fingers with the slide. The first solo of Sway is a good example of this. It took me quite some years to be any good at it, and it took some learnings about guitar set up and equipment to sound any good.
To do something that Derek Trucks does is mind blowing to me, to play all those fantastic scales in open E tuning. I can only play scales in standard tuning, in open tuning I find it difficult to go beyond the standard pentatonic stuff.
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NathanLaze
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I suggest you clear your mind, eyes and ears and go over this stuff again.
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NathanLaze
why using open g for the key of b ?? yes it's capo on 4th fret.... so why care which fret your capo is on------ 7th in standard or 4th in open g... seems not too different eh?? much simpler to tune your whole thing in b altogether and enjoy yourself