Descendants Of Smith - Roy Harper (guitar tutorial)

Descendants Of Smith from the homonymous album, later reissued as Garden Of Uranium.
I'm redoing this one just because the first video wasn't good enough. This time I made sure both my hands were in the frame.
I know that Roy thinks highly of this song and it surely is one of his best from the 80's. I particularly like the chord progression.
The guitar is tuned to DGCFAD (standard tuning, but lower) and with the strings so loose I struggled with some intonation issues. But overall I think this is far better than my first attempt. Cheers!

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[mussie302]

Yes, I got that REM sound too. I just had a quick listen through 'Automatic For The People' and the first track, 'Drive', has a similar sound to it I think.

[BadSpeech]

@mussie302 Yes, I was thinking of that album/period too.

[mussie302]

That was brilliant. Such a great sound and wonderfully played. I agree, that chord progression sounds wonderful.

[BadSpeech]

@mussie302 Thanks John. For some reason I cat put my finger on this chord progression makes me think of R.E.M. (???)

[experimentalrock]

Nice and crisp. Clean and spiffy in my view.

[BadSpeech]

@experimentalrock Thanks mate.

[electricragtime]

@BadSpeech I tend to use heavier strings 12/53 D'addario and I can take them down 2 whole tones without intonation problems......although I do have a 12 string with exceptionally light strings 9/40 which I use for raised pitch tunings A..Bb...E...F etc

[BadSpeech]

@electricragtime Thanks mate. What gauge do you use on the 12 string? I use 010 and the intonation suffers a bit when I tune down a tone. Not so much if it's just 1/2 a tone...

[electricragtime]

Very nicely played......and the 12 string sounds great.......and one of my 12 stringers is always tuned down a tone to DGCFAD.....in fact most people I know have their twelves tuned down a tone.....Kev