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Full page: [ Ссылка ] | “A ‘widened’ Open C variant, with 1str left at E to create a Cmaj11 voicing. Used by enigmatic English folkster Nick Drake for Pink Moon, the opening track of his 1972 album of the same name: capoed at 2fr, and slightly sharp of concert pitch (n.b. lower 2str by 5 semitones to play Pink Moon’s next track: Place to Be). Gives easy access to mood-ambiguous sus4 chords right up the neck, with the open 1str adding a droning shimmer to Drake’s own shapes. Strengthens the treble side of chords: as the tenser 1+2str will ring out louder than the much-slackened low end (vary the angle of your ‘strumming attack’ to bring out different timbres)...”

• Pink Moon | C-G-C-F-C-E | Semitone pattern (i.e. 'what to press'): 7/5/5/7/4

“The opening song from the album of the same name, Pink Moon is perhaps Nick Drake‘s most iconic track. Running for just over two minutes, it has only one (repeated) verse, along with a brief refrain/interlude, supported by a strummed steel-string sequence which skips along with surprising bounce, making concise use of the tuning’s harmonic quirks (n.b. he also used CGCFCE on Hazey Jane I (cp.2), Hazey Jane II, and Parasite (cp.3), as well as dropping it down a semitone for Which Will and Hanging on a Star: which could in fact be the ‘true’ transposition of other tracks, with all capos a fret higher – we’ll likely never know). The track’s skeletal piano riff is the only sound on Pink Moon not made by Drake’s own voice or guitar. John Wood – the album’s producer and engineer – recounts the stripped-down nature of the recording sessions: “He arrived [to the studio] at midnight and we started. It was done very quickly…He came in for another evening, and that was it…Nick was adamant – [he] wanted it to be spare and stark, and he wanted it to be spontaneously recorded. In a 2005 BBC Radio documentary, Wood adds that: “I just assumed at some point he was gonna say ‘I want to get hold of Robert [Kirkby: the string arranger for his previous albums]…[but] he said ‘I don’t want anything on it‘…We mixed it very quickly, and Nick went off and gave the tapes to Island Records. And that was Pink Moon...“ More info: [ Ссылка ]

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