Sunday, February 4, 2018

Equilibrium: Further explorations into the Dropped D tuning

Uncredited picture from gomerblog.com

Equilibrium:  This song is once again in the Dropped D Tuning where the 6th or low E string is tuned down to a D.  The song is mainly strummed with some bass notes sometimes thumbpicked for emphasis.  This track just features the Solo Guitar and Lead Vocal tracks so that the guitar technique is easier to hear:  





Here is the first set of chords.  For convenience I decided to keep some of the names from standard tuning chords, although this is not strictly accurate.  The Fmaj7 is actually probably closer to Dm7 in this tuning:

And here is the next set of chords.  In the Dm7/F the first finger position is not used at first, but does come in useful in the chorus when the 4th finger is lifted and the Dm6 is played.  The G chord is the standard one I use for G in Dropped D Tuning:




This song appears on the Yesterday's Dust CD released by Eric Dennis and myself.  Eric added some great harmony vocals.  Click on the CD cover to listen to this and other songs from the CD:

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