Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Does anyone know what tunings Crosby uses? Particularly on 'Guinnevere' (sp?) I'd love to know how to play that song. Thanks.

Try to find a copy of the July 1988 issue of Frets magazine which has an interview with
Cros. In addition to the interview it includes a transcription of Guinnevere & a list of some of the other tunings he used, some of which are cribbed below:

Carry Me DADGBE
Compass EBDGAD
Deja Vu EBDGAD
Guinnevere EBDGAD
Song With No Words EBDGAD
Tracks in the Dust EBDGAD
Laughing DGDDAD (*)
Whistling Down the Wire DGDDAD
Dancer DGDDAD
Music Is Love DADDAD
In My Dreams DADDGC
Naked in the Rain DADDGC
Traction in the Rain AADGBE
Whole Cloth AADGBE

*= Laughing and Triad (the latter in standard tuning) were also both done by the Byrds. Their version of Triad is on the Box Set, and the version of Laughing is on the out of
print 1973 Byrds reunion album.

The April 1988 issue of Frets has an article about Nick Drake with a transcription of the song Road & lots of other good info for guitarists interested in him.

bw

Forgot to mention, according to the Frets article Everybody's Been Burned is in a dropped-D tuning, but Crosby told me it's in standard, & I figure he'd know best!

bw

Any other info on Music Is Love? Chords? Would love to learn that song. Thanks!

Here is the entire citation, btw, listed by Buddy:

http://www.guitartabs.cc/fetchfile.php?fileid=6097018