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    Musician Stuff

    Index to the material below:
    • Rusted Guitars Mailing List
    • Recommended Songbooks
    • Lyrics of Neil's Songs
    • Chords & Tabulature
    • Neil's Alternate Tunings
    • Tips for Guitar Players
    • Tips for Harmonica Players
    • Tips for Piano Players
    • MIDIfied Neil Songs

    The Rusted-Guitars Mailing List

    The Rusted-Guitars list is an email discussion list that spun off of Rust years ago, to provide a place for Rusties to discuss guitar (and other instrument) playing of Neil Young music. Discussion topics include acoustic and electric guitars, amp setups, tunings, strings, and of course, licks, riffs, chords and tabulature covering the entire breadth of Neil's work from the 60's to the present, including both released recordings and unreleased performances.

    To subscribe to Rusted-Guitars, or to send the other commands listed below, you send a BLANK email to rusted-guitars-request@bosco.net with one of the commands below in the SUBJECT field. When subscribing you pick a PASSWORD yourself. For the other commands (after you have subscribed), you use that same password. In each case below, replace the word PASSWORD with the one you have picked.

    Here are the commands:

    • subscribe PASSWORD              <-- Subscribe in "every post" mode
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    • set nomail on PASSWORD   <-- Suspend mail (server will remember delivery mode)
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    Once your subscription is in place, you send your posts (the comments you want to make in the discussions on Rusted Guitars) by sending mail to this address:

    rusted-guitars@bosco.net

    For questions or help with your subscription, just holler. See you on Rusted Guitars!


    Recommended songbooks

    • Neil Young Complete Music Volume I [1966-1969]
    • Neil Young Complete Music Volume II [1969-1973]
    • Neil Young Complete Music Volume III [1974-1979]
    • The Guitar Styles of NEIL YOUNG
      . . . catalog number# GF0201
      . . . $12.95 (in USA)
      . . . Warner Bros. Publications
      . . . 15800 N.W. 48th Ave.
      . . . Miami, FL 33014
    • Other Warner Brothers Publications
    There are also individual books for single albums. The more popular ones are readily available in music stores.


    Lyrics

    Find them all right here on HyperRust!


    Chords and Tabulature

    Find most of them right here on HyperRust!

    All of the Chords and Tabulature archived here have been "validated" by folks on Rusted-Guitars.

    Also, from the former Red Sun website, a PDF has been lovingly assembled which contains chords and/or tabs to almost all of Neil's presently known songs. Many are similar or identical to ones here on HyperRust, but there are some variations on some songs, and a large number of additional tunes not yet on HyperRust. Here is a link to the PDF document. The Neil Young PDF Songbook

    Many many thanks to Fredrik Johansson for this excellent document.


    (note: Between Hyperrust and Red Sun, almost every tab is covered.)

    And here (off-HyperRust) is an extremely comprehensive "chord-finder".


    Neil's Alternate Tunings

    Neil plays some of his songs in non-standard tunings. Here's the list, as compiled by the folks on Rusted-Guitars.


    Tips For Guitar Players

    COMING SOON


    Tips For Harmonica Players

    Here are a few tips from an old web page that disappeared off the web, with some subsequent additions. Hopefully I'll be able to get more detail up here later for you Harp folks.

    Playing Neil Young on the Harmonica

    Below is a partial list of Neil Young’s songs for the harmonica, organized by key. Occasionally the same song is listed more than once. This indicates that Rusties have had success playing the song different ways. Also see the note below the table about how to figure out Harp keys for songs not listed...
    A Harp
    Out on the Weekend
    Mother Earth *

    Bb Harp
    My My, Hey Hey
    Ambulence Blues *

    C Harp
    After the Gold Rush *
    Helpless   (Last Waltz version)  
    Hey Hey, My My
    Like a Hurricane
    Long Walk Home
    Love is a Rose
    Mellow My Mind
    Motion Pictures
    Out of Control *
    Pocahontas
    Sixty To Zero
    Throw Your Hatred Down
    Winterlong

    D Harp
    After the Gold Rush
    Albuquerque *
    Daddy Went Walkin' *
    Distant Camera *
    Helpless   (CSNY version)
    Silver And Gold *
    Star of Bethlehem
    Thrasher

    F Harp
    Ambulance Blues
    Rockin’ in the Free World
    Someday

     

    G Harp
    Buffalo Springfield Again
    Comes a Time
    Days That Used to Be   (acoustic)
    From Hank to Hendrix
    Harvest Moon
    Good To See You
    Heart of Gold
    Homegrown *
    I am a Child
    Like a Hurricane
    Mr. Soul
    Natural Beauty
    Old Laughing Lady
    Razor Love
    Slowpoke *
    Southern Pacific *   (on Guitjo)
    Unknown Legend
    World on a String

    * The key for these songs came from Neil's own setlists from the Evening With Neil Young (1999) tour.
    Determining Harp Key
    Chuck Singer contributes this tip:
    For those still struggling on the Harp to use...here is your key (pun intended): You can use your major harp for that major chord OR relative minor. The chart is below. All you have to do is know the key you are in... The key is also known as the tonic or (generally) last chord you play on a song that "resolves".
        Major = Relative minor
    • A maj = F#m/Gbm
    • B maj = G#m/Abm
    • C maj = Am
    • D maj = Bm
    • E maj = C#m/Dbm
    • F maj = Dm
    • G maj = Em
    You're on your own for sharps and flat Maj keys... But just follow the pattern.

    The sixth note in a Do Ray Me Fa So LA Ti Do scale (LA) is the relative minor).


    Tips For Piano Players

    Here's an interesting chord helper. (Off-HyperRust site.)

    (Any submissions for this section welcome....)


    MIDI Files

    Here are a few (off-HyperRust) sites with some of Neil's songs translated into MIDI...

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