Chords for Adrianne Lenker alternative guitar tunings || Newport Folk Festival ||

[G] _ _ _ [D] Hello.
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[G] Okay, sorry.
_ _ _ [D] Hello, my name [Am] is Adrienne. _
[G] _ _ _ _ Today I want to [F] talk about something that I think is very interesting, exciting, and fun.
Tunings on the guitar. _ _
[N] _ You may hear some noise in the background.
That's my dog, Oso, chomping on a bone.
But we couldn't get him to stop chomping on the bone, so he might just be in the video.
[E] So _ I have learned some of [C#] my tunings from other artists, but I also just enjoy the adventure of messing with the strings until it sounds cool.
And I think an alternate tuning can be something as simple as tweaking one string.
So one of my favorite things to do is just tune the [Em] high E string down to a D.
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And there you have, suddenly, this whole other world.
_ And so all these chords you play, you have that open D string ringing out.
[A] And just that little [D] change can bring so much.
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[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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I wrote so many songs just from making [E] that little change that I wouldn't have written [D] had I not changed that one note.
But you can go more extreme with it.
This is one of my favorite open tunings, and it's just called Open D.
_ _ _ _ So you tune the lowest string down to a D.
You've got the highest string down to a D.
So you've got D, A, D, and then you change the G to an F sharp, which is a F C. _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ And then [B] you change your B down [A] to an A. _ _ _ _
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And notice how it makes a chord all by itself.
So you don't even have to do anything, and it sounds good. _
_ _ _ I often think that it'd be cool if they [Bm] started people with open tunings, because it's [D] so satisfying that it sounds good without making any chord shapes at all.
But _ within this tuning, _ _ there's a lot of shapes that you can make to move up and down the scale or through [F#m] the major and minor chords.
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[G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ [D] You can take that open D, and one thing that I've written a couple songs with just simply taking this A, this B that [C#] has been tuned down to an A, then I take it further and tune it down to [Bm] a G, [A] I think.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] So you've [A] got that _ _ _ F sharp next to that G, that little half step.
I really like that type of tension, and I [F#] find myself doing that [D] a lot. _
[G] _ Then again, just one note difference totally changes [F#m] it. _
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_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ Okay, so now we [N] have this tuning.
It's D, G, D, F sharp, G, G, capo to the sixth [G] fret.
As a little [G#] example, I have this song, Myth Beauty, and it's kind of a cool example of how little you can do with a lot of effect because of the open notes.
_ All of these notes are doing most of the work, and all I'm really doing is _ [C#] _ _ _ _
that drone that's just so nice. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C#] _ In ordinary situations, even outside of dreams, you lie in [A#m] bed at night and [C#] watch the lines of headlights through your screen. _
_ There is a child inside you who is trying to raise a child in need.
If _ you want to leave, you just have to say [G#] you're all caught up inside. _ _ _ _
_ So I'm really barely fretting any chords here.
I mean, most of them are just one or two fingers down at a time, [C#] but it's just all the power of this open tuning, which is why alternative tunings can be so cool.
And of course, [G] I also am a huge advocate for the capo, the use of the capo, because it allows you to have all [F] these ringing notes in any key that you want. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Here's [C#] another one.
It's C sharp, G sharp, C sharp, [F#] F sharp, A sharp, C sharp.
And it's actually very similar to [N] just dadgad with the high A tuned up to a B, which would be D, A, D, G, B, D.
But the reason I'm doing it in this C sharp tuning is because of the key.
I just like the sound [C#] of it being lower.
And I often do that.
I end up in [G#] these wonky, [F#] like, tunings just for the sake of the key.
[C#] But this is a [F#] I have this song called Not A Lot [G#] Just Forever in this tuning. _ _
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_ [D#m] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
[F#] _ Not a lot just forever
In a twilight somewhere
_ As the rain sheds her feathers
Not a lot just forever
_ My [A#m] dog's _
[C#] _ [F#] waggling
To protect my [F#] infancy
_ From [D#m] my _ [G#] ex-believer
[C#] And I try to call [F#] to _ [C#] remind him I [F#] am home _
[D#m] Still he [F#] tears [G#] at my sweater
[F#] Not a lot just forever
In a twilight somewhere
_ As the road wears away
_ [G#] Not a lot [F#] just forever Home _ _ _ _ _