Ladies Of The Canyon tab by Joni Mitchell

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