Green Green Rocky Road Taught by Dave Van Ronk
Hi, I’m Dave Van Ronk, I’ll start out with a little something easy, the Green Rocky Road, and it’s a drop D sometimes called English D tuning. So lets get in tuned together, as you can see I’m keeping all four here and there is no reason, its just a good key for me to sing in but what we’re going to do is, you see this low E string has toned down the whole tone. So you have a good solid bottom there for your base and D, now the thing is if you bare in mind that that low E is toned down a whole town then all the fingering makes perfect sense. So that when you’re playing a G chord, that’s your G up a whole tone from where you are to be if you’re in regular tuning.
Now essentially this, just the index finger down here, that’s the D that you need, everything else is either added or taken off so—and when you need that high F sharp, you just come down and you just bar like this. That’s that G, it’s a G6 chord, so that’s all really is to the verse and the chorus. Now this is a little bit tricky, what its is again is a G chord and its formed like an F chord with D. Only the thumb comes around here to get the low tonic and then you have this little slide back to the open G. Now you have some hammer on coming up, if you just—and into a G6 and lets start playing it together slowly.
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