Don't Let It Bring You Down

[SalFromChatham]

Another Neil Young cover... free time, and off I go with the cowboy chorders...

[Murphy Slaw]

A big thumb up !

[kkrell]

Nicely sung, and I couldn't do as well (at least these days, with a paralysed vocal cord). Now, let me rip it apart, please. I'd love it if you took it to another level.

Thus, some comments:

First, the guitar on the original album seems to be tuned down a whole step 1st across the board, then drops 1st & 6th string down another step. So, double-drop-D, but everything's down a full step from there. CGCFAC. I just play it in DADGBD. This gets some nice ringing use out of the open strings, and you can use some shapes that utilize them further up the neck as well.

Second, I think you play only *2*different chords in the opening, when there should be *3*, and I think it's important to the character of the song.

Third, I believe the lyric is "Cold wind ripping down the alley at dawn" - sounds like you're saying "on the valley"? You're also rushing the lyrics at times, as in "flashing through the window in the rain" and "White cane lying in a gutter in the lane".

Fourth, and last, I didn't like your long, repeated ending, as I feel it takes away from the song, which, on the album, ends fairly cleanly, and finishes with those harmonics at the 7th & 12th fret.

This lesson does a fair job of showing how to do it, which seems close to how I used to play it:

[SalFromChatham]

Thanks for your thoughtful advice!

Awesome Sal!

[SalFromChatham]

Kind you are - Doug. Thanks for listening

[Locky]

Sounded great.