{"id":296,"date":"2011-02-10T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-02-16T18:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T18:59:26","slug":"dont-let-it-bring-you-down-guitar-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-classic-blogs\/guitar-lessons-2\/dont-let-it-bring-you-down-guitar-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let It Bring You Down Guitar Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SeJxc8CKzW4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neil Young uses Double Dropped D Tuning for many songs. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/mastermenu\">acoustic guitar lesson<\/a> is one of our most requested at TotallyGuitars: *Don\u2019t Let It Bring You Down*. It first appeared on his 1970 album After The Goldrush, and was performed extensively during Crosby, Stills, Nash &#038; Young\u2019s tour that year that was released as the farewell album Four Way Street. Neil usually played this one step lower in those days and now tunes the guitar even lower for his voice, bringing the 6^th string all he way down to Bb. The tuning creates some new chord shapes but most of them are not too difficult and you really just have to work on keeping a steady strumming pattern going to make the song sound pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Young uses Double Dropped D Tuning for many songs. 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