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Has anybody taken a stab at 'Whole Love'?


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I've tried since Tiny Desk came out to sort of come up with chords for this song.

 

Basically, first I tuned my guitar into the open tuning that Jeff uses for "In A Future Age"- and sort of found a chord that sounded like the 1st chord he plays on the tiny desk thing, and moved that shape down the neck for the next chord, but I get lost from there.

 

Maybe I'm over complicating it.

 

Anybody else taken a stab at it?

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I just used a drop d tuning to mess around with it a little bit, but I think the high e is tuned down to d as well. Is that how you have your guitar tuned?

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Hi Sarah, I wish I had more time to make up a proper tab; maybe somebody else can do that. But after watching the "Tiny Desk" performance a few times, I believe these are the chord shapes Jeff Tweedy is playing. The hardest part was the bridge since the camera only shows what Jeff is doing in a few snippets, but I think this is pretty close. I hope my system makes sense but if it doesn't I'm sure somebody else will come along with a proper tab. Good luck!

 

“Whole Love”

Tuning: DADGBD "Double Dropped-D"

 

Chorus: D1 G F#m1 Em9

Verse: D2 D3 / D4 riff

Bridge: Em F#m2 Em A7 (twice)

Whole love: D2 G (000320 on outro)

 

D1: 0799x0

G: 5x04x0 (sometimes 5504x0)

F#m1: 440200

Em9: 224000

 

D2: 09x11xx

D3: 02x4xx

D4: 0002xx

 

Em: 222000

F#m2: 244222

A7: x02020

(1st time: slide up to x04030 back to x02020 to x20200)

(2nd time: x04030, x05050, x07070, x09080 to D2)

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I think it is just drop d. In watching the NPR Tiny Desk concert, Jeff only tunes the low E string to get it back to standard after playing Whole Love.

 

I have to agree. A weird thing is that, in Whole Love, it looks like he's playing a "D" shape with his second finger fretting a note at the 2nd fret of the high e string, (see about 11:05-11:00 minutes left in the video) that sounds more like a fretted E note than an F#. But, like you said, he doesn't retune his high e string for Born Alone.

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This is what Im getting...

 

Whole Love

Drop D

 

D7 D5 G Fm9 Em9 D6

-x-----x-----x-----x------0--------0------------

-x-----x-----x-----x------0--------0----------

-11---7-----3-----2------0--------4-----------

-11---7-----0-----2------2--------0-----------

-9---- 5-----5----4-------2--------2----------

-0-----0-----5----4-------2--------0-----------

 

Intro - D5 G Fm9 Em9 x4

 

D7

My cold Marigolds attack

My black

D6

bed of roses

D7

I'm gonna bring them all back

With hypnosis oh

 

Intro Riff

And I know that I won't be

The easiest to set free

And I know that I won't been the last

Cold captain tied to the mast

 

D7

I recall on the telephone

D6

I recall when you get mad

D7

I still love you to death

I won't ever forget how

 

Intro Riff

And I know that I won't be

The easiest to set free

And I know that I won't been the last

Cold captain tied to the mast

 

Em Fm7

I'm on the other side

Em D(slide up to the 4th fret and back)

I'm satisfied

Em Fm7

Oh, I'm a spirit dove

Em A7 A D7

I'm looking for your love

 

D7

I'm simple as a matter of fact

D7

Punch in the nose, don't over-react

D7

But I'll still love you to death

And I won't ever forget how

 

Intro Riff

And I know that I won't be

The easiest to set free

And I know that I won't been the last

Cold captain tied to the mast

 

Intro Riff

And I know that I won't be the one

To secure that I know when it's wrong

But I hope when I know it's passed

And I hope I'll know when to show you my

 

D7

Whole love x4

G

Whole Love x2

D7

Whole Love

Intro Riff x 4

Ever forget how

 

D

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I have to agree. A weird thing is that, in Whole Love, it looks like he's playing a "D" shape with his second finger fretting a note at the 2nd fret of the high e string, (see about 11:05-11:00 minutes left in the video) that sounds more like a fretted E note than an F#. But, like you said, he doesn't retune his high e string for Born Alone.

 

Maybe it is Dropped-D. I'm so used to playing it in DADGBD now that I'm not sure I could go back. I like having that high D drone note. I guess we'll need to wait for a Jeff solo video or recording before we're absolutely certain.

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Maybe it is Dropped-D. I'm so used to playing it in DADGBD now that I'm not sure I could go back. I like having that high D drone note. I guess we'll need to wait for a Jeff solo video or recording before we're absolutely certain.

 

I like the way the DADGBD tuning sounds! To me, the 'weirdness' was more about trying to reconcile what I was hearing with what I was seeing when Jeff retuned his guitar.

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