Guitar Tablature: Open A Progression
May 5th, 2006 | Back to Blog Listing
I started playing around with open A tuning the other night and came up with this little thing. It's all a single track.

You can listen to the song here: NewA.mp3


New 'A' Song
Open A Tuning - E A E A C# e

Tuning Convention:
Start with low E -> 5 -> 7 -> 5 -> 4 -> 3

Part A
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|--
C#|-------------0h1-------1-/-3--------3-\-1-------1---0----------------------|--
A|-------------0---------0------------0-----------0---0----------------------|:-
E|--------------h2------(2)/(4)------(4)\(2)-----(2)~~~~~--------------------|:-
A|---------0~~~~~~---0~~~~~~~~~---0~~~~~~~~~--0~~~~~~~~~~--------------------|--
E|---0h2---------------------------------------------------------------------|--

Part B
e|------------------------------p0-------------------------------------------|--
C#|-------------3-------0-------5p3p0h3p0--0----------------------------------|--
A|-------------0-------0-------0----------0----------------------------------|:-
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-
A|---------5-------5-------5-------------------------------------------------|--
E|---0h2---------------------------------------------------------------------|--

Part C
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|--
C#|-------1-------3--------3p1-----1-----------1------3------3p1-----1--------|--
A|-------0-------0--------------0---0---------0------0------------0---0------|--
E|------------------------------------0---------------------------------0----|--
A|---3-------3--------3-------------------2------2------2--------------------|--
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|--

Current Song Flow:

Part A x 4, Part B x 2, Part A x 2, Part C x 2 | repeat