4 + 20 (Lesson) - Crosby, Stills, & Nash

[@kathy3446]

Thanks James! Love this song!

[@roytonai255]

Love the song. Tricky finger picking that sounds great!

[@maineguitarists]

I agree this tuning works for Suite judy blue eyes but 4 & 20 can be played with drop d and leave the rest of the notes the same. Just saying...

[@Ashibal]

Hey just wanted to say thanks for all your videos, youre a great teacher and player, please dont stop making them!!! Ive learnt so much from you. PS: More Jimmy!

[@MrAcmove]

Your teaching got me into guitar. For real. Everything you've put out is straight to the point. Your lessons and historical commentary have earned mass appeal, respect and appreciation from all your supporters . Cool hanging out man. Be good.

[@PaulSmith-zi3sn]

Damn, that little bit you sang there sounded amazing.....

[@pauljams6565]

Thx again for a great song James 🎶👍

[@johnstaab9296]

Congratulations on reaching 100k.... should be 500k but I think you'll get there.

[@KingRiverVlogs]

Between privettricker and James James he has a total of 232K. It should be 23M but it isn’t unfortunately.

[@TheJipino]

I can hear the amazing tone even though I'm listening on my phone speakers.

[@samzalta1450]

The version from the Dick Cavett Show is the best. That version uses this tuning. Great stuff. Wish I had this video when I had to look everywhere for a tuning that matched the sound of that version a few years ago.

[@Johan10cruyff]

Absolutely badass. PS. You’re my hero.

[@stanleykostrzewski7222]

Just love 4+20 , thanks for this . Brilliant job !

[@brianohehir9515]

Great stuff again james! Love experimenting in this tuning. Thanks so much, just need some help getting the CSN harmonies together now!

[@emlyngriffith5846]

It’s an interesting tuning......must try it 👍

[@shawnhelsel923]

Thanks for this, had to learn it fast, not like when I had lots of time to figure it out myself. I’m regretting I’ve never dug into it before, this song and others you mentioned. Adding to the repertoire. And yes, as others have said your voice is spot on, would have loved to see and hear you perform the whole thing. Then again it might have set off the Utoob police. . .

[@ronlight7013]

Most other instructors have the tuning as "D modal" consisting of D - A - D - D - A - D. The "E flatish" interpretation in this lesson I think reflects the DAD-DAD tuning with a capo on the first fret, the way it was recorded on Deja Vu.

[@jamesjames9275]

Stephen has spoken many times about the modal tuning: EEEEBE. Sometimes he'd tune it down, but those are the intervals he uses.

[@pictonpig2446]

how the hell did you figure out that tuning? awesome...

[@trnew1000]

Nicely done. I don't understand why people here want to tune the A up...as he said, tune it down. Or just leave it since it doesn't get played...it's really just for safety if you miss the 6th or 4th string.

[@bobbysbackingtracks]

Close but no cigar. A string remains A. Bruce Palmer modal tunning DADDAD.

[@jamesjames9275]

Stephen has talked about the tuning many, many times. But we should all do it the way we feel like doing it.

[@TypicalGirls]

I've tuned the A up to E a couple times, snapped in the process. Only once did it make it, but snapped while playing. The trick is to get a different gauge A string so it's tension is comfortable. I forget the numbers and lingo, but say the typical A string is "24", you wanna get one that's "26" or "28". I don't understand all the technical aspects or lingo, but that's what I did. Talk to your guitar buddy who works on your guitar. I have an acoustic dedicated to the "all open E Stephen Stills tuning" and use the different gauge A and gauge G string, so when it's adjusted to the E, it's perfect. I'm gonna do it to my designated "Keith tuning" guitar too. For anyone tuned to open G, you'll notice the low E string is pretty flappy. Gotta get that different gauge so it tightens perfectly. I hope I explained this well enough. Anyone who understands it better and knows what I'm trying to say, please contribute to the cause.

[@alexbowman7582]

Back when the song was recorded presumably the string choice would have been far less and musicians often used different strings on different positions. In the early sixties the G string was always wound and British rocker Joe Brown said he used to use banjo strings for the G.

[@TypicalGirls]

@@alexbowman7582 That's what I originally was going to do, just use another E for the A string and another D for the G, then my friend (guitar fixer-upper) told me to try the alternate gauge thingy.

[@quogir1]

you are better than perfect that's good. its easy wish best especially with your hands

[@paulsimmons5726]

Not sure if the A string being tuned up to an E would snap the string but I'd be concerned about the bridge being damaged though. ** It'd be neat if someone would write a book of altered tunings and supply a list of tunes in which they were used. I'm sure someone might have thought about it but I've never seen it at B&N or BAM. Just a thought perhaps, hmmm...**

[@dusanpogacar1399]

Strum pattering is just like Dear Prudence and Happines is a warm gun of Beatles on white album.

[@dunhill74xs53]

You have same voice as Stephen Stills.. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@bungus49]

100k!

[@jrpipik]

Sometimes he doesn't pinch the first note so the high note comes after the first beat. Live he plays around with the motif in a lot of different ways. And yes, he has trouble playing and singing it consistently, too. I never thought to down-tune the A like that, but that's definitely the way he does it.

[@loveguitars]

Hey James James, I was wondering if you heard of a band called Zebra? Zeppelin influenced and the guitarist Randy Jackson is a great player. They have a lot of great songs. Check them out.👍😎

[@jamesjames9275]

I was around during the 80s. :)

[@loveguitars]

@@jamesjames9275 So was I. :)

[@donaldlariviere]

love who’s behind the door. open g.

[@dougeriksen479]

Randy is a master of 12 strings and alternate tunings.

[@art4744]

I grew up on Long Island going to see zebra with Twisted Sister and the doors cover band called Crystal ship and many others but zebra was always the best!! Randy Jackson is now coming around down here on the west coast of Florida and I went to see him a few times. I actually met him in person up in New Jersey my friend hired him great guy

[@dwaynejessome1728]

I wanted to put some work in on this one. I went back and tuned to this tuning in 432 and it matches the tuning you did by ear Mr. James James

[@BautigamerYT-cn9gq]

Thanks for your videos!!! They made me play again after many years!!! From Argentina!!

[@captsgdiver879]

Groovy man. enjoyable and excellent. remarkably groovy guitar part

[@peterlehmann157]

Fantastic, thank you 🙏🏼 Is this the same tuning for Wooden Ships?

[@jamesjames9275]

No, Wooden Ships is standard. I posted a lesson on it.

[@tuffgonggbUNCTION]

Nice. EBEG#BE

[@jamesjames9275]

That’s open E, but that’s not how Stephen played it.

[@alann5003]

You sound like Stephen.

[@sanborns]

Nice job James ... Great song lessons overall my friend ....

[@mainsblanches8793]

I tune in open C / capo 4 th fret!...CGCGCE

[@georgefinn2054]

Love your lessons James

[@allanpennington]

I find it so hard to thumb alternative base notes. I finger pick ok when its arpeggio but back and forth between E and D just eludes me. I wonder do I need to with this song to make it sound right?

[@jamesjames9275]

One great thing about playing the guitar is that you get to decide whether it sounds right or not. Who cares what everybody else thinks?

[@alanmcclelland5245]

JJ , Riight, if it sounds good and it,s recognizable as 4+20 (to you and others) then it,s all good

[@tbone2451]

One of my favorites, nice job.

[@truewealth50]

I think your a bit low on your tuning..I do the same thing ,when its time to change out my strings I put guitar in weird tuning..break a string who cares.

[@stonedrose1]

Thanks for this pal. Been wondering about the tuning for this for long enough.❤

[@drewcunningham2]

Great rendition! Love your videos bro, some of the finest tunes and lessons on the web..........keep up the good work!

[@FBXL5]

You should sing you sounded like him.

[@dwaynejessome1728]

I wonder if it was tuned in E at 432?

[@ledflaplin2001]

How does it sound when you tune to it?

[@dwaynejessome1728]

@@ledflaplin2001 so, there a much storied history about 432 tuning, and there some people with very strong opinions on either side. It's supposedly the "natural tuning of nature". It sits somewhere below standard A 440 and Ab 440, I think is the best way to describe it. There are a heck of a lot of songs from some of our favourite bands that used 432. - Like Zep for example. There is supposed to be healing powers in 432 HZ a long with a list of things that are likely to get the ire up of some people. I'm not sure what I think of all the mumbo jumbo stuff around it. However, One time I tuned to 432 HZ and asked the bass player to tune to me. We had a fantastic jam & the vibes were great the music sounded warm. The drummer and bass player didn't know it until the end of the jam and I told them about the social experiment. We loved it and did it for a few weeks and eventually fell back to 440. I just tuned my Strat to 432 after t4esting it to answer your question - I'm going to keep it there for a while - it was sounding good

[@slimwellie]

Brilliant, thank you.

[@davidjones6218]

Superb rendition of one of my favourite tunes. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@jaylakoma3987]

Suck a cool tune! Thanks James for the lesson.

[@clemclemson9259]

THANK YOU !!!!!!!

[@JonSmith-fc2mm]

Late to the party but what is that guitar? Not only does it sound good it's gorgeous!

[@jamesjames9275]

That's a Martin D41.

[@peterking1270]

Sounds bludy great

[@bigkm1974]

Damn that sounds good !

[@mikereynolds3294]

Dang i didn’t catch all that tuning. Can someone just post what each string should be. Thx

[@jamesjames9275]

They’re all the same, but the B string is a 5th from the others. So in E, it would be EEEEBE. But Stephen uses this tuning in different keys, sometimes E, sometimes D, sometimes even C. And sometimes in the cracks between notes.

[@mikereynolds3294]

@@jamesjames9275 thanks

[@seerofvisions533]

Hey James,how often do you change your strings, i.e. how fast they get In a poor condition?

[@ohioguy215]

It really depends on how frequently you play, the quality of your strings, whether you store it in a case, humid conditions. Good strings last for quite some time. You might break one of the top three if you're bending a lot but string life is hard to predict.

[@krtkllr70]

Cool

[@davidcompton8808]

The singing was sounding good. You should have kept going .

[@greg7656]

nice

[@augustobulla8633]

Awesome!

[@miguelnunes3150]

👌👌👍🎶🥂

[@djalex4718]

You obviously have the ability to play this song and I am glad I have I idea of what your talking about…but when you you say (i paraphrase) ‘there you go, that how you tune it!’ I had to go back again and verify that you never really told anyone exactly what each string is tuned to. I get it, ‘E’ but the B string? What is that? Down a whole step? You let us ‘hear’ the tuning and you talk a lot about it but you never say what ‘it’ is. Again, you do it well. Play it well. If you want to teach you should clarify your ‘teaching’. Obviously the alternate tuning is critical in playing this song. I know it addressed elsewhere, thanks for your effort. Anyway, you sound great. Best to ya.

[@jamesjames9275]

Watch the first 2 minutes again. I explained exactly what you’re saying I didn’t explain. And I even went through each string individually to explain how to tune each one. There is literally no clearer way to explain the tuning.

[@djalex4718]

@@jamesjames9275 ok. Thank you.

[@TarotMoon]