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Paint it black tuning11/30/2022 ![]() Associated tunings: proximities of shape, concept, context, etc… And to any genuine vibratory scientists reading: please critique my DIY analysis! See my Tunings Megatable for further such nerdery: more numbers, intervallic relations, comparative methods, etc.Insights to share? Comment via YouTube, or get in touch! Black Crow (first performance) – Joni Mitchell (1976):.I’d been listening to Black Crow…and said to Ben, my songwriting partner: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could do a song with similar, flowing open chords?'”) Lang “hired a little place in Vancouver to write songs. (Its unique groove also directly inspired the creation of kd lang’s 1992 hit Constant Craving. Giulia Galliani MAG Collective’s continue this tradition into the 21st century with their sultry, jazzy, jungle-laden rendition. Many other artists have covered the track with imagination too – including Cassandra Wilson in 1993, Richard Thompson in 2000, and Diana Krall in 2004 (Krall also lives just across the Georgia Strait, and can “relate entirely to the travel difficulties and the rugged terrain it describes”). There’s also a fantastic acoustic take from the 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue tour (see Coyote tuning) – seemingly the song’s first performance. Joni also recorded the song on other occasions – notably during her 1979 Mingus tour, as captured on the 1980 Shadows & Light live album, featuring an all-star band of Joni, Jaco, Pat Metheny on guitar, Michael Brecker on sax, Lyle Mays on keys, and Don Alias on congas & percussion. Black Crow (album) – Joni Mitchell (1976):.Sounds like they’re all having a divine time… This is a real case of ‘ playing the lyrics, not just the melody’: aside from Joni’s mellifluous vocal evocations, I can’t help but feel the crow’s glide in Jaco’s ‘floating’ bass harmonics – and also in Larry’s long, high bends, which almost seem to ‘ paint’ the bird’s flight through the air. Her poetic wanderlust is balanced by a distinctively choppy, funk-inclined steel-string groove, opening up a world of space for the smoother timbres of the electrified instruments. In a 2006 Ottawa Citizen interview, she recounts how the song is “another lament about travel, but this time about the difficulty of leaving” – with the journey itself being described in near-literal sequence (“I took a ferry to the highway, then I drove to a pontoon plane, I took a plane to a taxi, and a taxi to a train”). Lyrics detail her multi-step trips across British Columbia, required to reach her holiday home on the rugged Sunshine Coast. Joni recounts how the impulse for the song came directly from observing a black crow diving for shiny objects (“a weakness I can understand”). Home | Menu | Random - Support this site!. Try moving a 6-5-4str barre vertically (=up-and-down the neck), in the manner of the track… Pattern: 12>3>4>3>2 Harmony: Bbmin7 | 1-1-b3-5-b7-1 5str) – but actually, just strum hard and embrace the chaos they bring – it worked for Joni. I’d usually say be delicate with the tension differentials (e.g. Similarly, you could view it as a ‘ Bb drone + D bmaj chord’ (laid out on 6-5-1str & 4-3-2str respectively). 7tharpeggio, ordered (ignoring octave jumps) in straightforward ascending sequence: as 1-(1)-b3-5-b7-(1). Much of the percussive spice instead comes from her own low end, which features a ‘ slack thwack‘ adjacent octave (on 6>5str). It goes like this, from low to high: D A D F A D.Deep-sided tuning used by Joni Mitchell for Black Crow, track seven of her 1976 Hejira album – surely among the funkiest drum-less songs of all time (…just the trio of Joni, Jaco Pastorius on bass, and Larry Carlton on electric). Your tuning for this piece will be an open D Minor tuning. My order of play, in accordance with the guitar tab is: Beginners might find this a little complicated. I recommend this piece for intermediate guitar players and up. The guitar tab for Paint it Black is beautifully written across 4 pages. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, or click here to be updated on all of my latest guitar tabs.) How to play Paint It Black | fingerstyle guitar You can find a current list of my gear here. Tom Petty: Don’t Come Around Here No More | fingerstyle guitar + TABĬasino Royale: You Know my Name | fingerstyle guitar + TABįor this piece, I used my Cordoba GK Studio guitar. Not only does creating your own stuff improve your ear - it also improves your skill and technique. That’s why it’s important for you to create and write music – no matter your skill set. When I write or create derivative material - the guitar takes over like a dowsing rod. While playing around with the Paint It Black riff - my guitar (with a mind of it’s own) - decided to toss in The Night King by Ramin Djawadi, and a little bit of the James Bond Theme too. ![]()
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