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Auld Lang Syne in G Difficulty Rating: Beginner-Intermediate Lesson by: Kirk Lorange Click here for the new Dropped D Version of Auld Lang Syne. If you are having trouble viewing the embedded video above, please click here It's in G, no surprises there ... as usual, it's the best key to keep it all compact on the fingerboard. There's nothing too demanding in this piece ... it's nice and slow; everything happens within the first four frets of fingerboard. I added the chord names only because it's good to know which chords underlie it all. Obviously, there are no chords actually being played in this version, but it's important to understand that they're there anyway ... the bass line and melody partially spell them out and if you were to add more notes to this arrangement, they'd be following the rules of those chords I indicate. If you have a friend who plays guitar, he or she could strum through the chords indicated while you play the finger style version. That would sound great ... or a piano player could plunk out those chords. I also did a slide version on my old Strat (not a lesson). I did a nylon string backing first, then overdubbed the electric. It's in Dropped D tuning. I tried all those open tunings and I love them too, but for sheer versatility and ease of integrating it into normal playing, Dropped D can't be beat. If you'd like to learn more about playing slide in Dropped D, I did a whole DVD on the subject ... Dropped D and Standard tuning (which are the same, of course, other than the bass string). You can watch the movie here and Learn more about the DVD here.
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