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27/08/2005 7:41 pm
I bought a music book the other day and in it is "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Looking through the song the fingerings and changes looked very easy so I gave it a go, didn't sound right, so i take a closer look and they have open E5 tuning.
All strings are tuned to E except the B string.
They show you to tune the A string down but dont show what direction for the D and G strings ( I assume D up and G down, does that sound right?)
Now looking at the music I see that the A string is rarely played at all.
some of the chords used:
Bsus4 7X0777
A5 5X0555
A7sus4 5X0033 and
E5 000000
That raises a couple of questions.
Why mute the A string if it is the same note as the low E?
Would I be able to get away with tuning the A string up to B instead of all the way down to E?
Anyone play this song?
What tuning and chords do you use?
31/08/2005 1:44 pm
that is one strange tuning where all but one string is tuned to E.
how would one finger a chord?
looks like I am off to chord finder to take a look at that tuning. bizarre.
31/08/2005 2:31 pm
I had the music book years ago, and it's been ages since I've even heard the song. I recall that EEEEBE was the tuning (at least for one of the guitars), but it seem liked it was used more for a drone sound than playing full chords (I've seen the tuning refered to as "E Drone" or "E Modal"). A quick Google found a few tabs (whether they're correct or not, I can't say - but they seem close to the way I remember it being in my book):
E 000097 E[no5] 000054 E[no3] 000000 Asus2 055000 B(no3) 777777
B6(no3) 777797 A7sus4 000033 Esus4 000055 D6(no3) 01010000 D(no5) 000032
A/E 0000109 E7(no3) 00001210 C#m(no3) 000010 D/E 000121214 C#m(no3) 000101012
C#m(no3)2 000099 A(no3)555555 F#m(no3)141414141414 D(no3)2 101010101010
E(no3)2 121212121212 Bm[no3] 777777
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01/09/2005 1:37 am
A fellow GN member PMed me this link
http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/moneychords/suite.html