Iris - Goo Goo Dolls (Acoustic Cover - Standard tuning)

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Hello everyone!
Here’s our take of this 90’s classic.

The original song has one very weird and unique (and annoying) tuning.

So I wanted to figure out a version in standard tuning that’s easy for any gig, without having to retune the guitar back and forth.

I’m finally happy with this version. Hope you like it as well!

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Your playing is great, and so is the guitar sound. That doesn’t mean I’ll omit giving full marks to the singer :slight_smile:

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Thanks :grinning_face:!! Surely it wouldn’t be the same without her voice

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Terrific job by you both! Well done.

How bad can it be I thought … then I looked it up. Good Grief!!

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It happened to me as well, and apparently you need to mix strings from different gauges as well to keep it in tune throughout the whole song. Didn’t even dare to try :sweat_smile:… thanks for listening and your support :grinning_face:

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Hi Both,

Really good job on a very nice song.
Your version sounds fine to me.
Guitar sounds sweet - Looks quite a finger placement/strumming workout.

Digger

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Frederico

Very good guitar accompaniment with great dynamics: some of the chords sounded great. The singing was superb too.

Brian

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You were successful. Great job!

I do.

You two make a great duet.

Another real fun listen.
Thanks for sharing.

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Impressed with how you made this sound good in standard tuning. Great job both.

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Fabulous recording, great job both of you.

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Cool song. Great job too both of you guys. Very smooth playing.

That BDDDDD tuning is interesting. It’s about as bad as Cris Cornell’s open F5 tuning.

Yeah different B string can be a way to get around it without breaking them.

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Nice playing and nice singing!

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OK, I won’t look this up as I just took one lesson with alternate tunings yet. Guitar- and theory-land is so huge, that I fear to see too much beyond my own nose at the moment, haha!

But - what I wanted to say: sounds awesome - very well done, boith of you! :clap:

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@fedej - great performance from both of you - really enjoyed it - such a hard song to play - i think you could get good money for your arrangement :grinning_face:

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Just listened to this again and love it even more. Vocals and playing were both a joy to listen to. After watching the finger stretches and neck migrations you had to do I can fully understand why a live performer would opt to have a 2nd guitar pre-tuned on hand to play this song in a less-demanding way. Have you tried this in a live performance? If so, how did it go? I would be clapping and cheering loudly after hearing a performance like this one.

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Just listened to this again and love it even more. Vocals and playing were both a joy to listen to. After watching the finger stretches and neck migrations you had to do I can fully understand why a live performer would opt to have a 2nd guitar pre-tuned on hand to play this song in a less-demanding way. Have you tried this in a live performance? If so, how did it go? I would be clapping and cheering loudly after hearing a performance like this one.

Thanks a lot for the kind words!! And yes, we did play it live in December, at a small coffee place for people 50+, on average, so we weren’t sure if they would know/like it. But surprisingly it was very well received! So now it will be part of our usual repertoire.

For me it’s still way easier to play it like in the video, instead of having another guitar with this specific tuning for only this song. And I got used to playing it already.

Cheers!

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