Thanks. A friend introduced Nick Drake to me in the late 70s, but never thought of the possibility of him using alternate tunings. I play "The Chime of The City Clock" in standard tuning, but I could see how an alternate tuning might work with it too. Oh well. "Pink Moon" isn't the first song I've had to relearn,.
On this song he actually used the D A D G D F# tuning and a capo on the second fret. He also used that tuning on the song "Northern Sky", but without the capo
@@suzanne_atkinson No, he got the same tuning but one tone apart. If he wanted to play pink moon on the tuning he teached on this video, he should use the capo on the fourth fret
I just played this tonight along with a record. The E string was D slightly sharp when the capo on the 2nd fret, so the open E string (6th string )should be tuned at C …slightly sharp juts like he has it, at least in the recording I listened to.
There's an excellent video commentary on developing the "Nick Drake tone" or sound. It's a lengthy video by Josh Turner and is very in-depth about his analysis of the Nick Drake guitar tone, which is unique and challenging for even skilled guitarists to recreate with his tuning, chord progressions and so on.
@@jhandle4196 Josh Turner is one who offered that theory of dead strings. I don't think it might have been because he loved the deep, downbeat, thuddy tone that goes so well with the mood of Nick's songs.
I've explored several of Joni's tunings, and this is different from any of them. (Shout out to Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius (RIP) for "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter." )
I used to have that attitude thinking I could play any song with standard tuning; my own form of guitar snobbery; until I discovered that some things just can't be played in standard tuning on a single instrument, Oh, btw, it's believed that Andres Segovia, for his transcription of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" used an alternate tuning. and there's a whole repertoire out there that was written with Drop-D tuning that just sounds hollow without it. Are you gonna deduct respect points from Led Zepplin's "The Rain Song" too?
@@jhandle4196respect. I get that. I never knew that about Segovia. And JJofMD is supposed to be one of the hardest classical pieces in guitar. I would delete my initial comment now except for I like where the conversation went haha
Nice! That Pink moon tune is amazing
Thank you for this. I was struggling with chording ☮️
Ah man sweet i was looking for that !!! Brilliant!!!
Thanks. A friend introduced Nick Drake to me in the late 70s, but never thought of the possibility of him using alternate tunings. I play "The Chime of The City Clock" in standard tuning, but I could see how an alternate tuning might work with it too.
Oh well. "Pink Moon" isn't the first song I've had to relearn,.
On this song he actually used the D A D G D F# tuning and a capo on the second fret. He also used that tuning on the song "Northern Sky", but without the capo
that's the same tuning this guy has, just without the capo
@@suzanne_atkinson No, he got the same tuning but one tone apart. If he wanted to play pink moon on the tuning he teached on this video, he should use the capo on the fourth fret
I just played this tonight along with a record. The E string was D slightly sharp when the capo on the 2nd fret, so the open E string (6th string )should be tuned at C …slightly sharp juts like he has it, at least in the recording I listened to.
I mean I think we’re saying the same thing. His tubing is correct he juts doesn’t have the capo on the 2nd fret.
You're wrong and that's not the northern sky tuning lol
There's an excellent video commentary on developing the "Nick Drake tone" or sound. It's a lengthy video by Josh Turner and is very in-depth about his analysis of the Nick Drake guitar tone, which is unique and challenging for even skilled guitarists to recreate with his tuning, chord progressions and so on.
Thanks
It's rumored that Nick often played with old, "dead" strings, either intentional, or because he was just too depressed to change them.
@@jhandle4196 Josh Turner is one who offered that theory of dead strings. I don't think it might have been because he loved the deep, downbeat, thuddy tone that goes so well with the mood of Nick's songs.
Sounds like coyote by joni mitchell
I've explored several of Joni's tunings, and this is different from any of them.
(Shout out to Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius (RIP) for "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter." )
@@jhandle4196 the only difference is joni mitchell adds a 9 on
This sounds so much like bob dylan. I wonder if he used this tuning
From my memory Bob used standard tuning and just used to use a capo, quite high up which would make is sound like this style I guess
@@chili_phil True. I can't think of one Dylan song that wasn't standard tuning.
@@jhandle4196 yup!
I love a song. I find out it has a completely random tuning. Minus 3 respect points
This tuning is genius though it’s really worth checking out
I used to have that attitude thinking I could play any song with standard tuning; my own form of guitar snobbery; until I discovered that some things just can't be played in standard tuning on a single instrument,
Oh, btw, it's believed that Andres Segovia, for his transcription of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" used an alternate tuning.
and there's a whole repertoire out there that was written with Drop-D tuning that just sounds hollow without it.
Are you gonna deduct respect points from Led Zepplin's "The Rain Song" too?
@@jhandle4196respect. I get that. I never knew that about Segovia. And JJofMD is supposed to be one of the hardest classical pieces in guitar.
I would delete my initial comment now except for I like where the conversation went haha