Stay or leave tuning?

scelestus · Unread post by **scelestus** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:20 am

Okay... to start this off, I should let everyone know that I'm not an experienced guitar player or anything. I've wanted to learn for a long time, and I've just started to sit down with a guitar and try to learn. I'm in college, and I've been trying to learn on my roommate's acoustic Johnson (which I suspect he bought for $2 at Goodwill.) Anyways.... on the tab for Stay or Leave, if you play without a capo, everything is tuned up a fifth. Is this a problem? I mean, do you have to worry about breaking your strings, or does it just depend on the gauge of strings you use, etc. Sorry... I just don't know much about this stuff, and I'm afraid my roomate's guitar will suddenly crumble to dust in my hands.

DustyDave · Unread post by **DustyDave** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:56 am

Hey welcome to the boards , no when you put a capo on the 7th fret , it means you won't have to retune your guitar , call it a shortcut that wont damage the guitar

Ranting Thespian · Unread post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:50 am

yeah, you slap on the capo at the 7th fret, just make the raised-b tab relative to the capo. It's a hard one to play up there, though.

Also, if you want to do raised-b tuning, you have to completely restring your guitar with the right gauges of strings. Someone on here did it, I forget who.

mbgreen · Unread post by **mbgreen** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:29 am

Dont tune up...you'll snap your strings, or even worse, ruin a perfectly good $2 guitar. :wink:

Just learn it in standard tuning...Jared has it tabbed out.

Actually, if youre just learning, standard tuning would be difficult with a few of the chords in there. I dont know. Get a capo. Or learn other stuff till you can play it in standard.

Coldchillin · Unread post by **Coldchillin** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:43 pm

Yeah, play it standard...or capo 7, don't retune. If you're new at guitar, the standard might be a bit too difficult for you, but try it out...

reis-a-roni · Unread post by **reis-a-roni** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:58 am

I love Stay or Leave and this weekend was able to play it. With the capo on I find it one of the easier Dave songs to play, but maybe not for somebody just learning to play. Thankfully there are no typical 4 fret stretches.
Anyway it sounds awesome! I love my Guild but hearing Dave on his Martin might make me think about treating myself to one.

jon01 · Unread post by **jon01** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:17 pm

unfortunately if your guitar doesn't have a cutout playing the whole song with the capo is kinda tough

- Jon

Coldchillin · Unread post by **Coldchillin** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:09 pm

jon01 wrote:unfortunately if your guitar doesn't have a cutout playing the whole song with the capo is kinda tough

- Jon

I guess it would be...

AJDMB05 · Unread post by **AJDMB05** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:18 pm

Not really.. the only hard chord with the capo on 7 for a Dreadnought is the 8-10-10-9-8-8 which becomes a 15-17-17-16-15-15. Just make it a x35553. I don't really like the standard version, especially on the chorus and "So what to do.." parts.

Coldchillin · Unread post by **Coldchillin** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:23 pm

I like the capoed version better too....Standard just doesn't sound right...

borocks · Unread post by **borocks** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 6:32 pm

Coldchillin23222 wrote:I like the capoed version better too....Standard just doesn't sound right...

standart is more difficult to play, I love the challenge

Coldchillin · Unread post by **Coldchillin** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 6:39 pm

I can play both, but I like the capoed, challenge or not. I like the sound. It's all a preference really.

sunglassesatnight · Unread post by **sunglassesatnight** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 1:05 pm

I enjoy playing the standard more, and I think it sounds better.

reis-a-roni · Unread post by **reis-a-roni** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:21 pm

Not really.. the only hard chord with the capo on 7 for a Dreadnought is the 8-10-10-9-8-8 which becomes a 15-17-17-16-15-15. Just make it a x35553. I don't really like the standard version, especially on the chorus and "So what to do.." parts.

I agree. I figured this out to and it sounded fine. Actually with the fret boards so small this chord is easier (10th fret) to play up here than on the third fret.

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