[Wes Dakota]

I've read in a couple of places that Blackbird is played in drop D tuning. I just don't hear it. Am I tone deaf? Sounds like standard tuning to me.

[theprik]

its standard tuning

[Jίmmί]

Hmmm...interesting, 'tis more difficult for me to play it in drop d (retuned it just now) why would the beatles (whoever played it, lenon?) play it in drop d?

I don't think it's true. I've always known it in standard tuning.

[nem2k]

i do believe the original song was written in open G tuning
of course you can play it in standard E though, thats how i play it because i dont like to tune to open G everytime i wanna play the song

[theprik]

i do believe the original song was written in open G tuning
of course you can play it in standard E though, thats how i play it because i dont like to tune to open G everytime i wanna play the song

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i did not know that

[drakus_maximus]

I've read in a couple of places that Blackbird is played in drop D tuning. I just don't hear it. Am I tone deaf? Sounds like standard tuning to me.

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Yeah i'm pretty sure it's standard you should be able to here that's it's obviously not in drop D how long have you been playing guitar, no how long have you been out of your mothers womb.

[dadfad]

I don't know why it would be. It could be easily played in dropped-D if for some reason you wanted to (I just did it to see), but I don't know why anyone would bother since it doesn't need a deep D-chord anywhere and the standard G-forms are as easy or easier in standard tuning. I play a lot of fingerstyle stuff in dropped-D in the keys of D, G and A but only when dropped-D will add something to the tune you can't get in standard tuning, and I don't see anything it can add. I doubt that it was.


Edit:

I also just tried it quickly in open-G. It seems like it could be played very easily (maybe even more easily than in standard if you practiced it that way) in that tuning. So that might very well be possible.)








(But standard always seemed to work just fine for me.)

[brethren]

I guess I'm too used to playing it in standard to try anything else.

[Wes Dakota]

I've read in a couple of places that Blackbird is played in drop D tuning. I just don't hear it. Am I tone deaf? Sounds like standard tuning to me.

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Yeah i'm pretty sure it's standard you should be able to here that's it's obviously not in drop D how long have you been playing guitar, no how long have you been out of your mothers womb.

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I already said that it sounded like standard. You, apparently are not so sure yourself--so why are you being such a prick? Oh, and by the way, it's "hear" not here. You can't even spell and you're ragging on me? Does your baby sitter know that you're still up? Thanks to all the others who gave me an adult answer.

[nem2k]

i dont understand how a song can "sound" like standard tuning. if the song is written in open G and youre in standard, then you just rearrange the fingering, itll sound exactly the same unless its too difficult to double up on notes or whatever

[kooldood1]

i dont understand how a song can "sound" like standard tuning. if the song is written in open G and youre in standard, then you just rearrange the fingering, itll sound exactly the same unless its too difficult to double up on notes or whatever

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i know what you mean but if you play something thats in a different tuning transposed into standard there are some notes that may be open where you could tell its an open tuning. you need a pretty good ear(not saying you dont have one). i also play blackbird in standard. i did not know about the open g story.

[Wes Dakota]

i dont understand how a song can "sound" like standard tuning. if the song is written in open G and youre in standard, then you just rearrange the fingering, itll sound exactly the same unless its too difficult to double up on notes or whatever

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Sometimes it's easy to tell that some song is in a different tuning. When you try figuring it out it becomes obvious. It can sometimes be virtually impossible to play some songs in standard and make them sound good. Try a song like "Prodigcal Son" by the Stones or 4 and 20 by Stephen Stills. They don't translate as well to standard tuning. I just read an interview with McCartney in Acoustic Guitar and it sounds like he plays it in standard.

[palmbayguitarist11]

Hmmm...interesting, 'tis more difficult for me to play it in drop d (retuned it just now) why would the beatles (whoever played it, lenon?) play it in drop d?

I don't think it's true.  I've always known it in standard tuning.

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I believe McCartney played it.

[drakus_maximus]

Its standard but it feels better when you play it a half step down. A lighter feeling actually.

[drummer_from_the_Grahams]

Gday

Guitar World magazine listed it as being in standard tuning when they did a tablature of it. It sounds fine like that, but i haven't tried it with the half-step down thing yet.

By the way, it was McCartney who played it, and wrote it too.

Uh the guitar world issue it was in was from August 2002, so it might be a bit hard to get nowadays. I'll copy it onto the archive.






NINJA HIYAH!

[Catcher In The Rye]

Hmmm...interesting, 'tis more difficult for me to play it in drop d (retuned it just now) why would the beatles (whoever played it, lenon?) play it in drop d?

I don't think it's true.  I've always known it in standard tuning.

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I believe McCartney played it.

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Well, isn't Paul bass? Maybe George plays it... or John.

[lyra14]

Nope, it was Paul. He's quite a multi-instrumentalist. Good on bass, guitar, piano, even drums (interestingly enough). Great vocalist (IMO) too.

[Catcher In The Rye]

Nope, it was Paul. He's quite a multi-instrumentalist. Good on bass, guitar, piano, even drums (interestingly enough). Great vocalist (IMO) too.

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Ok, but don't shoot me for thinking it was George, I mean it's only logical.. Paul is bass.

[The_buffalo]

There's a song on "Abbey Road" called "The End", where Paul, George and John (in that order) take turns soloing on guitar. Paul also played lead guitar on "Birthday" and Ticket to Ride".

This post has been edited by The_buffalo: 26 November 2005 - 11:39 AM