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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The open C tuning for 7-string guitar was Devin Townsend's preferred tuning for the extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad (GCGCGCE), used on their last two albums. Also used on most of Synchestra and Ziltoid the Omniscient , "Planet of the Apes" from Deconstruction , "War Princess" from Z² , "Failure" from Transcendence and "Monuments of ...

  3. Open D tuning - Wikipedia

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    Neil Young, Richie Havens, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Barry Gibb, Jim O'Rourke and Jason Swain have all released recordings featuring this tuning. Elmore James used this tuning heavily. Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam uses this tuning when playing the rhythm guitar on "Even Flow" and "Oceans", from their Ten album. Broadbay use this tuning in ...

  4. Don't Let It Bring You Down - Wikipedia

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    The song is played in double drop C tuning, which is similar to double drop D; however, the whole guitar is down tuned a whole step first, making the guitar strings C, G, C, F, A, and C. [5] On 4 Way Street, Young says, "Here is a new song, it's guaranteed to bring you right down, it's called 'Don't Let It Bring You Down'. It sorta starts off ...

  5. The Loner (Neil Young song) - Wikipedia

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    "The Loner" was written while Buffalo Springfield was in its last throes. The widely held assumption that the song was written about Stephen Stills (who covered the song on his 1976 album Illegal Stills [1]) can perhaps not be disproved (Young himself rarely provides clarity on such issues), but it is perhaps more likely that the song is autobiographical in nature, especially since Young was ...

  6. Mr. Soul - Wikipedia

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    Composed on an acoustic twelve-string guitar, the dark and moody song is in double drop D tuning, which Young used in a number of other songs, such as "Ohio" and "Cinnamon Girl". [4] On the third track of Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968, Young stated that, "A lot of songs take a long time to write. Generally they take an hour ...

  7. Harvest Moon (Neil Young song) - Wikipedia

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    The song uses a moon motif, which Young has mentioned as being very important to him and having quasi-religious undertones. Linda Ronstadt provides the backing vocals. [2] The song is composed in the key of D Major, with Young's guitar in Drop D tuning and his vocal range spanning from D 3 to F# 4. [3]

  8. Neil Young - Wikipedia

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    Neil Percival Young OC OM [1] [2] (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American [3] singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield.

  9. Double drop D tuning - Wikipedia

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    Some recordings that make effective use of this tuning are "Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers, "The Loner," "Cortez the Killer," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," "Ohio" and "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young, "Choctaw Bingo" and "We Can't Make It Here" by James McMurtry, "Find the Cost of Freedom" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, "Going to ...