He brings E down to D, leaves the high E standard. You can run progressions with this tuning, up and down the neck, someone else hitting licks. Bitchin' jams dude.

I saw these guys do this live in the 80's. Brought down the house. Stills played Black Queen too, and Crosby did Guinevere.

Rock on my friend.

2naSalit

(86,330 posts)

6. Some of my friends use that technique

Reply to 0nirevets (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 11:55 PM

Mar 2020

they call it "drop D" for some reason. I don't play guitar but I can follow what's being played for some reason.

mac2766

(658 posts)

4. Genius

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:04 AM

Mar 2020

A song at this level always amazes me. It's beyond me how a person, or persons, can write a song as complex and beautiful as this.

A very fond memory I have is a christmas morning many many years ago. My brother got a record player and a couple of albums. One was this album. I remember like it was yesterday Suite, Judy Blue Eyes playing on that record player.

ancianita

(35,933 posts)

5. Right?

Reply to mac2766 (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:07 AM

Mar 2020

It is definitely complex, like a 3-part alegretto. And wide emotional range.

Thanks for sharing the memory.

I myself had just had my first child, confined, tired by her refusal to nurse. I played the finished long version album on rotation all day just to keep my spirits up.

Some songs are the music of our life movie.

2naSalit

(86,330 posts)

7. I could see why

Reply to ancianita (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 12:02 AM

Mar 2020

he would write it in that form. Judy Collins is a classical musician and was then.

Collins studied classical piano with Antonia Brico, making her public debut at age 13, performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos. Brico took a dim view, both then and later, of Collins' developing interest in folk music, which led her to the difficult decision to discontinue her piano lessons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Collins

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