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Ladies Of The Canyon - Joni Mitchell
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From the album 'Ladies of the canyon'
Tabbed by Howard Wright
H.Wright@astro.ac.cf.uk
First things first - the tuning.
>From low to high the strings are : C G D F C E
Or in Joni notation - C 7 7 3 7 4
(The numbers tell you which frets to use when comparing the tuning of 2 strings)
I'm just going to give you the shapes - there aren't a lot of different
chords to worry about, and the basic picking style is fairly simple to pick
up from the record.
Chord Shapes used :
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CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE
002200 002000 033000 030000 022000 020000
C Cadd4 C7add4 C9add4 C6add4 C6add9add4
CGDFCE C G D F C E CGDFCE CGDFCE
x22222 x 0 10 9 10 x x0767x x0545x
A6/7sus4 Gmadd4 Gadd9 G9(no3rd-no5th)
Weird names .. but that's what you get if you use strange tunings !
Use the last three shapes for the little introduction bit, then change to
C alternating with Cadd4 and you go into the verse.
She tends to use the chords in pairs, alternating between them.
So use (C and Cadd4) as a pair.
(C7add4 and C9add4) as a pair
and (C6add4 and C6add9add4) as a pair.
The verse just uses these 3 pairs of chords, plus the A6/7sus4 chord.
Play around with these and you should pick it up pretty easily.
A final point - she tends to hit a few open strings between chord changes, and
sometimes hammers on to a new chord shape after strumming a few open strings.
Enjoy !
Howard
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