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sunship Mar 25 2011 at 2:38 PM	Hi Music Experts. I’m trying to figure out "Make Peace". Does any guitarist know if it is a Drop D tuning? I think the Baritone guitar is throwing me off. It sounds like a really low D to me that is coming from the low E string. Am I correct in trying to approach this tune in standard Drop D tuning, or is it a altered tuning all together? Thanks guys.
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yulyo Mar 30 2011 at 10:44 AM	Pat put out a ONE QUIET NIGHT songbook. You should be able to get it there.
sunship Mar 30 2011 at 10:20 AM	Hi Everyone, Thanks for the info. Of course, I should have realized it was a different tuning. Those high notes were really throwing me off. I knew there was no capo (because I saw him play it live). It radically different tuning the guitar way down and adding those high pitched strings. No wonder I couldnt figure it out. Marshall. Id love to see your arrangment. I started my own in drop- D tuning. I am about a minute into it, and it sounds quite nice. But Id love to see your approach. Thanks again guys. All this practice on Make Peace has made me want to get a new acoustic guitar...
marshall Mar 29 2011 at 12:53 PM	Sunship--I made a nice little transcription for standard tuning. I haven’t written it down--I’ll write up a tab tonight and send it on over to you. It’s just for the intro part, but it sounds reasonably nice.
s in Boston Mar 29 2011 at 11:25 AM	Tom - correct.
Tom Rudd Mar 29 2011 at 6:31 AM	From what I understand by reading all this. The Baritone Guitar is tuned down a 5th A-D-G-C-E-A. Pat left the bottom A & D normal octave. G & C stings are tuned up an octave. E & A are normal octave. Plus a standard set of Bari strings usually runs from 68 to 12, which would give great bass response from the 2 lower strings. True Nashville tuning would have 6,5,4 & 3 strings all up an octave. Using this method on a regular six string guitar with the octave strings from a 12 string set makes for a great recording technique and is used a lot for this purpose when over dubbed with a regular tuned guitar it sounds fantastic.
s in Boston Mar 28 2011 at 11:19 AM	Sunship, it’s the baritone plus the fact that he’s using the half-Nashville tuning that’s throwing you. If you have the One Quiet Night CD (of course you do, right?), he describes the tuning there as well.
foper Mar 25 2011 at 5:46 PM	Here’s an interview where he talks about his tuning. Pat never does anything in a ’conventional’ way. LOL. http://www.guitar.com/articles/pat-metheny-one-quiet-night
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