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by Howard Wright
Email: hakwright (at) gmail (dot) com

Introduction

With some of the more extreme tunings (e.g No Apologies) it's difficult to get all the chords to sound perfectly in tune, just because some of the strings are so far from their usual tensions and pitches that the guitar's intonation is seriously affected. Joni doesn't have any problems like this with her Roland VG8 guitar synth! You could try experimenting with different gauge strings - that might help a bit. Otherwise you just have to compromise and do the best you can. Usually it's easy to get either chords at the bottom of the neck or chords higher up the neck to sound just right, but not both. The less extreme tunings for the other songs work much better, and chords for these songs should sound fine both high up and low down on the neck.

Here's the list of the tunings I have worked out. A couple of the songs actually have different guitar parts that use more than one tuning - I've just listed the tunings (in "Joni notation" and using note names) for the main guitar in each song. If you don't know what Joni notation is all about, have a look at the explanation of Joni's tuning notation.

If you have any questions, suggestions etc, please let me know!