# Finger pickin' songs in drop C-G tuning. Know any? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331 "2007-11-05T19:49:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/1 "2007-11-05T19:49:57Z")
Tune your bottom E down to C, A down to G. Now you can play: Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac) '52 Black Vincent (Richard Thompson) What else? I need more songs to make the re-tuning worth while. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/2 "2007-11-05T20:30:14Z")
[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName] Tune your bottom E down to C, A down to G. Now you can play: Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac) '52 Black Vincent (Richard Thompson) What else? I need more songs to make the re-tuning worth while. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I think Patti Smith’s\* Long Black Limousine\* is drop-tuned. If I remember correctly (it’s been a while), [OLGA.com](http://OLGA.com) has a separate section of drop-tuned chord/tab selections. It may have been another on-line guitar archive. -Cem ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/3 "2007-11-05T21:04:33Z")
I play what I call Cheater’s G - just dropping the A down to G and really only playing the middle four guitar strings, like a tenor guitar or something. I don’t fingerpick - except for some rockabillly stuff - but Cheater’s G is essential to the Rolling Stones catalogue, like Honky Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’, etc. I also use it for a ton of other rockers like Tush by ZZ Top, Can’t Get Enough of Your Love by Bad Co., etc… Again, a bit of a hijack since you are asking about fingerpicking… ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/4 "2007-11-06T16:33:30Z")
[QUOTE=Cemetery Savior] I think Patti Smith’s\* Long Black Limousine\* is drop-tuned. If I remember correctly (it’s been a while), [OLGA.com](http://OLGA.com) has a separate section of drop-tuned chord/tab selections. It may have been another on-line guitar archive. -Cem [/QUOTE] [olga.com](http://olga.com) is a ladies underwear site. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/5 "2007-11-06T16:42:37Z")
And [olga.net](http://olga.net) is currently down with legal issues. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/6 "2007-11-06T16:55:45Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] Cheater’s G is essential to the Rolling Stones catalogue, like Honky Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’, etc. [/QUOTE] I thought Keith Richards preferred a full open-G tuning? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finger-pickin-songs-in-drop-c-g-tuning-know-any/425331/7 "2007-11-06T17:14:49Z")
The official name is C Wahine Tuning. It seems to be especially prevalent in Hawaiian music. [This site](http://www.torvund.net/guitar/index.php?page=tuning&tid=31) might be what you need.