Mitchell Joni - Ladies Of The Canyon guitar tab

Ladies Of The Canyon - Joni Mitchell

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From the album 'Ladies of the canyon'

Tabbed by Howard Wright

H.Wright@astro.ac.cf.uk

First things first - the tuning.

From low to high the strings are : C G D F C E

Or in Joni notation - C 7 7 3 7 4

(The numbers tell you which frets to use when comparing the tuning of 2 strings)

I'm just going to give you the shapes - there aren't a lot of different

chords to worry about, and the basic picking style is fairly simple to pick

up from the record.

Chord Shapes used :

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CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE CGDFCE

002200 002000 033000 030000 022000 020000

C Cadd4 C7add4 C9add4 C6add4 C6add9add4

CGDFCE C G D F C E CGDFCE CGDFCE

x22222 x 0 10 9 10 x x0767x x0545x

A6/7sus4 Gmadd4 Gadd9 G9(no3rd-no5th)

Weird names .. but that's what you get if you use strange tunings !

Use the last three shapes for the little introduction bit, then change to

C alternating with Cadd4 and you go into the verse.

She tends to use the chords in pairs, alternating between them.

So use (C and Cadd4) as a pair.

(C7add4 and C9add4) as a pair

and (C6add4 and C6add9add4) as a pair.

The verse just uses these 3 pairs of chords, plus the A6/7sus4 chord.

Play around with these and you should pick it up pretty easily.

A final point - she tends to hit a few open strings between chord changes, and

sometimes hammers on to a new chord shape after strumming a few open strings.

Enjoy !

Howard