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But if you want to experiment - try it in open G, capo at the 5th fret.

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Easy Songs Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228594 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228478 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:32:39 +0000 Easy Songs pearlthekat https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228478 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228473 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:08:53 +0000 Easy Songs Misanthrope https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228473 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228465 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:01:08 +0000
As far as that goes though, I don't know a lot about that myself. Something which comes up in a few Coldplay songs (and I'm sure other bands too) is just tuning the two highest strings differently to suit the key, and then leaving those strings open the whole time. Of course that means the chords you'll be playing aren't just plain major or minor chords, but it can still sound very nice. For example, one song is tuned to what is (essentially) EADGGC. Then the chords used are 8-10-10-9-0-0 (which is still C major), 022000 for an Eminor-ish chord, 355400 for G-ish chord (G with a 4th added I think) and a few more too which follow the 'barre chord with two high strings open' pattern. Of course you can come up with whatever chord shapes you want if they sound good. (And if you are familiar with Coldplay, then that song is "A Message". The actual tuning is as above but then everything up a half-step as well, or a capo on fret 1).

After coming up with a new tuning, then you could head over to http://www.jguitar.com, enter your new tuning then use the chord search to get fingerings for the chords you'll be using. Or otherwise go with something like the example above where you don't try to play exactly a Cmajor or Aminor or whatever, but just something similar whilst getting a unique sound from whatever tuning you go with (I think that possibly sounds a lot more complicated than it needed too, but I hope you get the idea)

Anyway, as I said, I don't know much about the whole alternate tuning thing, so I'll just stop my rambling now. Hope that helped a bit though :)]]> Easy Songs Simonb https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228465 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228453 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:48 +0000
Don't you just find what key you sing in and then play in that key ...

Say you sing in C , the chords used would be in the key of C ???

Thats how I understand it ...

But then again I know absolutely nothing]]> Easy Songs BarnaBus RoX https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228453 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228309 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:26:38 +0000 Easy Songs pearlthekat https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228309 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228284 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:01:32 +0000
Often I'll start with a capo at 11, sing it a half-step lower and work downwards, as I have a low vocal range and that's the same (key-wise anyway) as stepping down a fret. Occasionally, if I'm not even in the same ballpark as the original, I'll capo at about the 5th and sing down 7 semi-tones - (5+7=12, so they meet up again at the right note, if you see what I mean).

Another trick if it's too high for me to sing and what I need to play is too tricky on the narrower frets at the 11th, is to transpose down 5 steps temporarily, then use those new chords with the capo at the 5th. That gives me room to transpose downwards with the capo, and again I'll use open chords where possible after using the capo to find a place I like.

Once I have a range of transpositions that I can physically manage, then I'll use my transposition thingy (link) to choose one of those, either the one that I feel most comfortable singing or in the case of that not making much difference the one that has the least 'awkward' chords in it :)]]> Easy Songs Misanthrope https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-228284 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-23916 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:16:46 +0000 Easy Songs pearlthekat https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain-question/#post-23916