Apparently since around 1995 according to Wikipedia. Interesting. I have played one of those modelers and it is off-putting when the volume is low enough to hear the off-key Standard tuning of the strings and the amplified non-standard tunings coming out of the digital pickup. Weird voodoo.
I have to agree. He had at least two strings out of tune. Whether that was deliberate or not, I can’t say.
I didn’t think it sounded that bad. I did think something was out of whack with the string section, though.
It’s like saying Picasso can’t paint because people don’t have triangular heads.
I learned *Big Yellow Taxi * a while back, it’s not really all that tough to play but it sounds great and is fun to play. She was into those super cool modal sounds at the time, that one is in Open E, she would typically tune to open D (easier on guitar and strings than actual Open E) and Capo on 2
The whole reason she employed her own tunings and others, she had Polio as a child, and so it was difficult for fretting and such.
If you’re playing with others, they don’t want to hear someone tuning up, and especially, playing out of tune. When playing alone it’s a lot easier to at least get the guitar in tune with itself, if not exactly on concert pitch. Sometimes I’ll start in standard tuning, then Drop D (lots of famous hits) Double Drop D (ditto - including Zeps “Goin’ To California”) DADGAD (celtic) and Open D (Lots of hit songs). Throw in a Capo and there’s enough there to keep anybody busy for a long time.
I was looking for a joni song to play one time and it seemed to me she only had one song in standard tuning. And one in drop D which was never on an album. I gave up. I haven’t got to where I want to retune for songs.
Page is definitely playing some dissonant chords in this clip like minor 6th-add-9 or diminished 7th sus4 type stuff. It’s difficult for me to tell if the instrument is properly tuned to the intended tuning. He can definitely tune a guitar at least when sober. I’m not worried about his tuning skills.
Not a problem if you use in-ear monitors though. Output of the modeler, mix in the audience away from a mic some distance from the acoustic…no problem.
IANAG - rhythmically it reminds me of parts of Over the Hills and Far Away.
damn that squeaky smooth floor’s JUST ASKIN for, say, three-on-three shinny, granted room is roughly a mimimum 150’ X 50’.
The windows, though, would be a problem.
And Jimmy.
Another example of a great performance tool, from the sound of it, that I would not choose to use privately. A key part of my guitar joy is the sense of…connectedness?..with the instrument I’m playing.