Guitar Tunings :: Stripping Cane (2004)

Cross of Flowers: Standard tuning, key of G

*Mayfly: Modified open G tuning, partial capo IV, key of B (The capo at IV covers only the five highest strings, leaving the bass note open and tuned to a low B octave with the A string)

Doubletree: Standard tune, capo III, key of Gm (played on a guitar banjo, nowise different from a guitar neck)

Stripping Cane: Standard tuning, capo II, key of Bm

The Bluest Blade: Standard tuning, capo II, key of B

Pearl Handled Pistol: Standard tuning, capo II, key of A

Northbound 35: Standard tuning, capo II, key of D

4 & 20 Blues: Modified open G tuning (Bass string tuned to a low G octave below the A string), key of G, played with a slide

Don’t Look for Me: Standard tuning, capo III, key of Eb

**Tropic of Cancer: Standard tuning, key of Em

Lodi: Standard tuning, key of G

Every New Leaf Over: Open D tuning, key of D

* Occasionally while playing live I’ll play Mayfly in an open C tuning, key of C

** Similarly, I often play Tropic in Em, but with capo VII (using different chord shapes)