Members LiveMusic Posted January 8, 2007 Members Posted January 8, 2007 This is driving me nuts. I cannot find a recording and I cannot find a note on my lyric sheet. I guess I figured I'd never forget. I wrote a song months ago and I do know the verse is in C. Chorus goes to Am. I can "hear" the song being played... I'm in chord C and I slide up a couple of frets and it has this seriously cool sound but it stays in C. Same thing for next couplet, I change frets but it actually stays in C. I cannot remember the tuning or the chord fingerings! I used some kind of alternate tuning. I could have sworn it was Double Dropped D but I can't make that work. I've tried dadgad and also open G. Any idea what tuning I could try? I remember this low, droning note, so, I would think the E-string would have been dropped down, maybe to C. I seem to remember retaining the C-chord shape and sliding it up during the verse but I cannot make that work. I might have just made up a tuning. I would think, though, I might have amended maybe one or two strings from a popular alternate tuning. But I seem to remember going to almost a standard Am fingering for the Am in the chorus. I am surprised it is not double dropped D.
Members Cldplytkmn Posted January 8, 2007 Members Posted January 8, 2007 hmm... dontcha hate when that happens? i know in double drop D you can slide your C up to a D and a few other convenient chords, but that doesn't keep you in a "C" sound...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted January 9, 2007 Members Posted January 9, 2007 CGDGBD? CGDGCE? CGEGCE? CADGBE? CGDGCE?
Members LiveMusic Posted January 9, 2007 Author Members Posted January 9, 2007 Originally posted by Terry Allan Hall CGDGBD?CGDGCE?CGEGCE?CADGBE?CGDGCE? Damn, I tried every one of yours. Nothing. I have no clue and this makes me mad! I don't use any weird tunings, it had to be something simple with a very low dropped note. Surely, somewhere, I have a recording.
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted January 9, 2007 Members Posted January 9, 2007 Originally posted by LiveMusic Damn, I tried every one of yours. Nothing. I have no clue and this makes me mad! I don't use any weird tunings, it had to be something simple with a very low dropped note. Surely, somewhere, I have a recording. I bet it'll come back to you.
Members Ultimate Dave Posted January 9, 2007 Members Posted January 9, 2007 DGDGBE? its just an offshoot from open G, but it would have yer standard Am fingering in there
Members LiveMusic Posted January 9, 2007 Author Members Posted January 9, 2007 Thanks to all. Only thing I can come up with and I suppose this is it... is it is standard turning except to drop the E-string down to C and that is the droning note in the verse. I am playing these little chord-melody things with the low notes in the c-chord as the verse progresses and this seems to be it.
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