Alternate Tuning for "If You're Gone"?

[vynesmusic]

hi all, I'm new here but been playing Byrds since the mid 1960's. I used to play Byrds with a customized Spanish 12 string!!
Then I bought my 370-12 in Sept. 1967. Still have it, turns out it is a 1966.

is it the song in the first or second album? the one in 6/8 beat? always one of my favorites.

the verse part:

G to F major (with a G note on the 1st string) to E minor 7

A minor to C major to D sus4

the instrumental part:

D sus4 to C major to G to C to G
E minor to C major to D sus4

Zurdo

I hope I'm not gonna regret this

......but 6 posts back on this thread, Gee at Studio Z presented his first mix of a Byrd's cover, "If You're Gone".

Jim Krause and beatbyrd listened to it, very nice comments from both and much appreciated----

not mentioning this for more salutations, but a CONSULT wouldn't be bad.....

HELLLLLL---OHHHHHHH!!!

anyhow.....ZURDO!....were you not a contributor to the RIC official site forum? My nome de plume on that site was WhenTheRainComes.....you and I spoke a few times......

"If Yer Gone" is in the key of G.....The first verse is the first position chord for G, then remove all fingers except the pinky on the 1st strings 3rd fret G-note, plop the index finger ONLY on the first fret of the second strings, a C-note, strum all first four sets of strings then hammer down to Em.....

No special tunings, no drop D.......

What makes the song is Gene's voice, his words and McGuinn and Crosby's spooky ahhhs in the backgorund---not to mention Hillman's iconic bass part.....

there......I said it...... "Set You Free This Time" is done except for the harp.....I gotta learn harp.......or.....not

[Zurdo]

Deep South,

yes, same Zurdo. How ya doin' ? I still come by the RIC forum but everybody's coming over here so I did too !!

[vynesmusic]

Deep South,

yes, same Zurdo. How ya doin' ? I still come by the RIC forum but everybody's coming over here so I did too !!

YESSIR----I like this forum alot.....I have learned a lot from these cats....mostly humility .....very talented crew here on the RRF

[Zurdo]

I do too, plus we gots Gretsch and Beatles and Byrds, a lot more channels if you know what I mean!

what is that model Rickenbacker in your picture/avatar?

[vynesmusic]

what is that model Rickenbacker in your picture/avatar?

That is a FireGlow 360-12.....B/W don' do it justice

Good to be in touch again, Zurdo.......as Bruce Willis said to a cop who just had a body fall on his squad car, "Welcome to da party, Pal!"

[Zurdo]

what is that model Rickenbacker in your picture/avatar?

That is a FireGlow 360-12.....B/W don' do it justice
Good to be in touch again, Zurdo.......as Bruce Willis said to a cop who just had a body fall on his squad car, "Welcome to da party, Pal!"

same here Gee. By the way, I remember a Baldwin guitar I had in 1967, it was an nylon string acoustic with a pickup built-in in the bridge, must have been the first piezo-pickup ever made, stupidly, I sold it to get a 12-string acoustic Epiphone whose top warped in less than a year, it couldn't handle the tension of the strings. Ended up without the goat and without the rope

[vynesmusic]

same here Gee. By the way, I remember a Baldwin guitar I had in 1967, it was an nylon string acoustic with a pickup built-in in the bridge, must have been the first piezo-pickup ever made, stupidly, I sold it to get a 12-string acoustic Epiphone whose top warped in less than a year, it couldn't handle the tension of the strings. Ended up without the goat and without the rope

BALDWIN! ha.... for years the band I was in had 2 150 watt Baldwin organ slave amps--each one had a 12 and a 15 in. speaker. We bought them for $100, brand new, from a legendary electronics place on California Ave. in Chi-Town....it was called ATOMIC TV.....

Those slave amps ROCKED......lasted for 30 years....

[Zurdo]

...and I bet those amps sounded good too. Baldwin sold excellent equipment in the 1960's even though they did not manufacture it, I think.