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I get asked quite a lot about the tunings and guitar chords that I use. We don’t have a book or regular tablature that we can make available but thought some of you might be able to take some basic stuff and run with it.

I don’t read any music and can only draw pictures for you.

If you have specific songs that you’d like chords for, leave a message on the message board and I’ll try to add them to this page.

Strings are named from fat to skinny (DGDGBD means the first D is the fat string.)

(Note, when I’m playing concerts, if I only have one guitar, I try to set my song list so that, between songs, I need only to change a string or two to move from one tuning to another, for example, I’ll do "open windows" in DGDGBD and then do "’sunday driver" in CGDGBD. )

Tunings for songs from Allen's new project,

"The Moon is Round"

"Comfort 17"

"Carnival of Counterfeits"

"The Headset Song"

"Happy Lightning"

"Love of a Different Kind"

"Undo the Fall"

"Love to Give Away"

"The Moon is Round"

"Think About It"

Other Tunings

TUNING = CGDGAD

(some songs = Movement of our Moments, Enjoy the Ride, Flowers were made for the Field, Tyler Talks back, Accidental Roads, Dirt Beneath the Nails, Playing with Fire, Liberty, Golden Choir of Aubiere)

TUNING = CGDGBD

(some songs = Sunday Driver, Shoulder to Shoulder, Morning of my Years, River of Dreams, Happy Just to Have you Hanging Around, Under the Rainbow)

TUNING = DGDGBD

(some songs = Open Windows, Tell me a Secret, Suntan, Keep on Smiling)

TUNING = DADGAD

(songs = Outside the window, October Eyes, Refrigerator Art, Before the Count of Three, Land of Love)

TUNING = DADF#AD

(some songs = Someone’s been here, if the prayers of dogs were answered, the Game of who has More, The raindrop song (world without a word), Things that make the story mine)

TUNING = CGCGCE

(some songs = Love of a Different Kind, The Bike Song, Ode to the Rusty strings, The Chime Song, Mary in a Martha’s World)

TUNING = CGCGCD

(some songs = Girl in the Garden, Change for the Better, Love to Give Away, Oliviatown)

Chords in this tuning are basically identical to the ones in CGCGCE. Just play with it and you’ll figure out some nice sounds.