Stephen Stills - Singin' Call

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TGNeil
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Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:33 pm

Hey Gang,
One of my students was working on Singin' Call by Stephen Stills recently and I am glad it got back on my radar. Like 4 & 20 and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes it is in what he called the Bruce Palmer Modal Tuning - DADDAD (or DDDDAD more accurately but unnecessarily), and only uses a couple very easy chords. Stills randomly varies the picking pattern but tab is included showing many different ways of playing the tune.

Singin' Call is one of Stephen Stills' delicate fingerpicking masterpieces, similar to 4 & 20. It is in the same tuning D-A-D-D-A-D, although Stills unnecessarily tunes the 5th string down to D as well, and uses essentially the same right hand picking patterns. There are only a couple chords and the picking should vary randomly, but we have tabbed out the entire first verse along with intros from the studio version on Stills 2 and the CSN Demos album.