For goodness sake, the key to CCR’s sound is John playing a whole step down! If you miss that key ingredient, you’re never going to reproduce their unique vibe.

@@phaedrum5916 drives me nuts when people are playing in D it's clearly tuned down to D. Anyway you play it I still love it. Great rock and roll!

Or, simply retune your guitar to the track...

@@lungboy69 yeah that works too, but then it takes a little more time to do it that way since you gotta get all six strings right, and then sometimes it varies a bit from there. Just a bit more of a headache. Plus, who wants to retune just for one song? To each his own, but I think that extension is super quick and easy to use, no guitar retuning needed. It's like two clicks and you're set.

Thanks for that knowledge mate!

The song is NOT “slightly out of tune”. John is playing with every string a whole step down! That is the magic ingredient in most of their songs.

@@phaedrum5916 wrong

My first concert was actually John Fogerty and the Premonition Tour in 1998. 18 years old. First of many, many concerts. Cheers, bud.

If you learned to play guitar in the late 60s or early 70s John Fogerty and CCR were huge influences. John launched thousands of garage bands, their songs were very popular even when played really badly. My first gig playing guitar was at a party in ninth grade and we played Bad Moon about 20 times by request.

@@SeadartVSG Bad Moon Rising is my favourite CCR song! And yes, I was born in 1958 so I was around when it came out, ha, ha! 😎👌🎸🎶

So true. The ccr greatest hits spectacular. Besides you can't see a Vietnam movie without a ccr tune being played.

@@ToddSauve I've always been interested in the difference between the three different subsets in that time. I suppose people with brother and sisters would have seen it within their own families. * I was in the middle, you were later. The early guys were the one's worried about getting drafted. I remember hearing a lot of early Dylan, but only later realizing the depth and ambiguity in the writing. The college kids no doubt understood it better than I did. But given the folkie reaction, not all of them. I was in high-school when CCR hit Ed Sullivan. I actually don't remember what they were doing in the early 70s. The irony of great music is that at the time, you have limited resources (no KZfaq), time, and experience. You miss stuff, and always love your own discoveries. But you can always go back. I actually can't remember how many CCR records bought, great as they were. But I know I bought every Beatles and Dylan album by college. I'm virtually certain I missed some gems, CCR and otherwise.

@@mikem668 I remember the whole Beatles, CCR and a bit of the Dylan thing. Both the Beatles and CCR broke up at about the same time, 1970-71. I could never understand why any band would break up. I was like 12 or so and my buddies were _my_ buddies! They were like brothers to me, mostly because I had nothing but four sisters I suppose. The only CCR album I ever bought was the first album I ever bought. "Cosmos Factory." It was just bursting with hits and I loved it. Our grade school music teacher used to teach us all kinds of CCR songs. He'd be pounding the piano and we'd be singing our hearts out and loving every moment of it! Those were some good times and I recall them with great fondness. Our music teacher also had a silver split window Corvette with a big block Chevy in it. Talk about all us kids thinking we'd have died and gone to Heaven if we had his car! Ha, ha! This was in Regina, Saskatchewan and CCR was _the_ most played and popular rock band on the Canadian prairies. Period. They were monster big. We didn't think about the war in Vietnam a lot. Didn't understand what it was all about and why they were fighting. I used to think all the jet fighters were the absolute bee's knees, and I wanted to fly one when I grew up. Now that I'm 63 I understand that Vietnam was a total mess that the US inherited from the French colonial times and that the US should have just said, "No thanks." The Vietnamese were almost entirely in favour of the communist party because of their very bad treatment from the French. I knew a guy who went there from my church. He was from the interior of BC and joined the US army thinking he was going to teach those commies a lesson. It was the most disillusioning experience of his life and he came back saying he would be a communist if he was Vietnamese. He said the South's government was so corrupt he almost couldn't believe the things he saw. Every little village chieftain was lathered with goodies from Saigon but everyone else had virtually nothing. All they did was spend their days in the steaming heat planting and harvesting rice, and making nothing from it except enough to eat and maybe some clothes on their back. He served in the central highlands and almost got killed several times. He said the South's army was riddled with communists and you could not rely on them for anything. If it came to a fight with the NVA or Viet Cong the South's army disappeared and left the Americans to do everything. Real fair weather friends. There were exceptions of course, but that is how the entire mess boiled down in front of his eyes as a kid from the mountains of western Canada. He was glad to come home alive and try to forget it ever happened.

Precisely! It ain’t rocket science.

So I’m new to understanding: why do musicians tune down their instruments? At first I thought he was just out of tune and was like how could an accomplished musician be out of tune on the Sullivan show. But they do it on purpose to achieve a certain sound?

Yes indeed, you can see it on this video, when the band goes to D he’s playing an E shape.

Old ZZ Top albums come to mind as well.

@@pg123ab You can also see how Stu Cook's bass headstock blocks the view of John's hand positioning on the neck. I've noticed in old Creedence footage how Fogerty hid his playing from cameras.

I knew it was tuned outside of e. I tried learning it 15 years ago. Got the tuning figured out and then gave it up lol

Yes sir, thank you!

Yeah - most guitar vids about CCR songs are just flat out wrong because most of them try to play everything in standard tuning.

@@timclute9507 A lot players don't understand Fogerty's unorthodox and very economical voicing style for chords and broken chords. Not one player on KZfaq has got the correct solo fingering to "Born On the Bayou"--and that's after 15 years of KZfaq videos.

If your gonna ask fer Alvin lee try bluest blues or comin home

@@jeffkokosinski1784 Don't you I'm Goin' Home?

@@paulfrombrooklyn5409 yes sry about grammer

yea that's a great song.

I agree. Learning songs off of records I was constantly adjusting the pitch of my guitar to match the old bands.

Thanks!!!!

he did it in many of their songs..

@@mattnewby123 I may be lacking musical expertise here but isn't D standard tuning not possible? I mean, Standard tuning is EADGBE. Open D tuning is DADF#AD. I don't know what D standard tuning is.

@@paulfrombrooklyn5409 it the same intervals as standard, but the top and bottom are D, standard tuning down a full step. You could have googled it, so I imagine you are being a dick, but I can't tell... lol DGCFAD top to bottom. Get it now?

@@paulfrombrooklyn5409 so if you are playing along with a normal tuned guitar, and he is playing D-A-G as in Bad Moon Rising. you would play what looked like E-B-A on your detuned guitar, hope that clears it up. I am no genius, just really love CCR music and played it for over 30 years...

And Tom is playing in standard. Kind of the key to their sound.

Finally at least 3 people (I’m counting myself) understand!

You are right, he is tuned a whole step down

Without a doubt!

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THis is a great fun video!

@@HamishBrown3 It truly is 😁

Omg, who doesn't love the foos and kiss guy!!

@@melissatyree566 exactly 🤘😁

Oh, and brilliant reaction/lesson brother; once again!

Bad Guys?? You say, Bob.........who's that? people who choose a different political party than you??? Communist , I think it was....how does that make them bad guys, fusilli?

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