“tierra de paz” open G tuning
this one is also from 2008, would have been shortly after returning from Portland and experimenting further with this tuning. always liked it. very happy and pretty and idyllic.
you could probably use it after that last one.
“portland lament”, open g tuning (DGDGBD)
it’s not really a lament, i just like the sound of it. i have a song called santa rosa lament too, which i’ve never recorded. they’re just named after the cities in which they’re written. this is a pretty happy, kick back little tune. i don’t know how to describe the mood of it.
a couple of friends of mine from high school moved up to Portland Oregon and a friend and i went up to visit them once in 2008. the one guy there, shane, is also a guitar player, and when he heard i liked alternate tunings, he asked if i ever played in open g.
i told him i’d never been able to make heads or tails of it. the fact that the low string wasn’t the root threw me off (although i’ve since solved that dilemma). “no problem,” shane said, “just don’t use it. that’s keith richards’ favorite tuning, and i think he straight takes that string off. here, i’ll show you some chord shapes.”
and from those chord shapes i wrote this tune essentially that afternoon.
thank you, shane.
“Frustration in Open G”
wrote and recorded this in May of ‘09. some of my friends really like it, but i can’t play it anymore. just don’t remember how, really. with this particular song the touch has been lost. music is sometimes like photography that way- records a moment in time, never to happen again.
