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Just so that the terms are clear: the “open” in “open tunings” means that all the strings are tuned to tones belonging to one particular chord, so that you’ll get a full chord if you play all the strings open. I had alreadyput up on a little site a few tabs that I couldn’t find elsewhere, but it was when I made the tabs of the New York versions of Blood on the Tracks that the idea of a comprehensive site with exact chords to Dylan’s entire output was born for real. On a side note, that was in a way the most life-changing experience of them all, because that’s when dylanchords started for real (and man, has that taken up a large part of my life in the fifteen years since then). The third was when I first tuned to an open D chord. Fifteen years later, my wife got me an HD-28, and I have bliss within reach whenever I need it (in more sense than one). I immediately realized that that was the sound I was after.
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The second was when I first tried a Martin guitar. Fifteen years later, I bought an old Ibanez twelve-string, and although it would be a lie to say that it’s the best guitar in the world, there is nothing wrong with that sound of twelve shiny strings. I realized that the fullness of that sound was what I had been dreaming of all my life, I just hadn’t known it. The first was the first time I tried a twelve-string guitar. I have had three life-changing epiphanies in my life as a guitar player.
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Finally – it took more than a year, but here’s the next lesson: on open tunings.