America "A Horse With No Name" (Messy cover)

"A Horse With No Name" is a song by the band America. It was their first and most successful single, released in early 1972, topping the charts in several countries. "A Horse With No Name" was recorded in the key of E minor with acoustic guitars, bass guitar, and bongo drums. The only other chord is a Dadd6add9, fretted on the low E and G strings, second fret. A 12 string plays an added F# (second fret, high E string) on the back beat of the Em. A noted feature of the song is the driving bass line with a hammer-hook in each chorus. A "waterfall" type solo completes the arrangement. Produced by Ian Samwell on the day of final recording at Morgan Studios, at first the group thought it too corny and took some convincing to actually play it. Gerry Beckley has explained in Acoustic Guitar magazine (March 2007) that the correct tuning for the guitar is D E D G B D, low to high. The chord pattern that repeats throughout the entire song is: 202002 (Em),then 020202 and 000202. The tuning is unique to this song; they did not use it on any other America song.

Sorry for the bad end (fail) , but i love this song and it reminds me of when i was young! Instrument used: Epiphone ej 200ce + Peavy Deuce VT

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[Schlummer77]

Great performance! (From Italy)

[Christophee123]

@Schlummer77 Thanks!

[scr34moBanananana]

This is great! Great guitar too, I have the same one ^_^

[Christophee123]

@scr34moBanananana Thanks a lot!

[dreganism]

This was a great pleasure to watch and listen to! Passion and skill - I was searching for what key the song was played in, since I knew a capo was involved, but just didn't know where (I didn't experiment either :-) ).

Nice fricking job - I now check your other stuff.

Dave

[Christophee123]

@dreganism Thanks a lot Dave... I dont play the song as America does, i have a regular tuning and America has tuned in the key of E (D E D G B D). However i think that the song goes very good to play in regular tuning and capo. Thanks my other stuff is very fun also. Peace and love!

[asianboi528]

the ending made up the whole video

[SoundWavesSurfer]

Really nice man!

[Christophee123]

@Macsk8ing Thanks a lot! peace and love

[Macsk8ing]

This is amazing man, pretty good.