Keb Mo - "This Is My Home" Alternate tuning?

jpmist · #1 08-09-2019, 01:51 PM

Got hooked on "This is my Home" on the first listen, so naturally I'm trying to figure out how Keb plays it. With me it's finding where to put the capo and what key to play it in, but my ear tells me it's not standard tuning. Anybody know? Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Irip5pIRb4

rick-slo · #2 08-09-2019, 02:24 PM

standard tuning with a capo at the fifth fret

jpmist · #3 08-09-2019, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by rick-slo

standard tuning with a capo at the fifth fret

Cool, thanks, will give that a shot!

First album of his I’ve bought, to my surprise he does a lot of non-blues type James Taylor type fingerstyle I like . . .

jpmist · #4 08-10-2019, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by rick-slo

standard tuning with a capo at the fifth fret

Checking back, capo on 5 is where I started to work out his fingerstyle playing but there are fretted notes I'm playing that sounds like open strings when he plays it? There's an awkwardness to working out his notes in standard tuning that reminds me of the years I wasted trying to figure out "Little Martha" and "Hotel California" in standard tuning <sigh>

Edit: Ah ha, there it is on YouTube!!! Perfect. AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW THE MIC IS IN THE WAY COVERING HIS LEFT HAND!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Hjf74v7fU.

But at least I can see the capo on A and mostly a C shape he's playing. I think that's what's throwing me off picking out his melody is his thumb fretting the E string. Looks like I have to brush up on that as I never ever do that. That "la, la, la" bridge is killing me as well. . .

Thanks again.

J

JonPR · #5 08-11-2019, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jpmist

That "la, la, la" bridge is killing me as well. . .

At least you can see his left hand there!

He starts with a Bm7b5 shape: x-2-3-2-3-x; then via that F bass to an E shape, then Am7, D/F#, F, G7.

jpmist · #6 08-12-2019, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by JonPR

At least you can see his left hand there!

He starts with a Bm7b5 shape: x-2-3-2-3-x; then via that F bass to an E shape, then Am7, D/F#, F, G7.

Many thanks for that help! Quite a leap Keb made there.

Last time I tackled it was capo on G, I managed to get most of the treble melody with that. . .

Thanks again