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James Taylor’s composition “Fire and Rain”, is one of the best known folk rock songs of the last 40 years. B11th tuning is most often used for Hawaiian music - such as the standard tunes like , Sand, Mapuana, Wear a Lei, and others that feature multiple dominant 7th, 9th 13th and 11th sounds. It’s usability for other styles of music has been less explored by players. My arrangement for solo electric steel of James Taylor’s iconic tune makes use of dissonance; a clanging, folk sound that exploits barred notes ringing against open strings. Notes from the Lydian Scale in the key of B, give it a distinctive modal flavor. The six-string version of the tuning commonly uses either a B note or a C# on string #  6. Note that parts of this arrangement are an interpretation of the song, rather than a note-for-note rendition and slightly revised from the version in my book of B11th arrangements (out of print).

B11th Tuning
STRING # 6    5  4  3  2    1

NOTES: B D# F# A C# E 

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