Open D Tuning Lessons (& Open E)

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TGNeil
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Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:34 pm

Hey Gang,

I have been reminded recently that we might want to put a pack of Open D songs together, like we have for Open G. I thought we could start with a list of lessons we have in the library currently. Please feel free to add any that I have missed.

And as a reminder, I am not a fan of tuning 3 strings higher to go into Open E when lowering 4 to get to Open D gets the same relationship. Then a capo at the second fret puts you in E.

Duane Allman - Little Martha (E)
Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels (E)

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

Mumford & Sons - The Cave
Mumford & Sons - Fare Thee Well

Bob Dylan - Buckets Of Rain

Bee Gees - Words
Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Bee Gees - I Started A Joke and To Love Somebody
Bee Gees - Morning Of My Life and New York Mining Disaster 1941

John Fahey - Poor Boy
John Fahey - Poor Boy Long Ways From Home

I will start another thread with similar D tunings, like Double Dropped D and Stephen Stills favorite, D Modal. Please feel free to add any you know of that I have not listed, there have to be lots more. But I will add a single outlier that I only know of one song in...

Linus & Lucy (Open D6 - DADF#BD)

Neil