here's the video in E

[trking8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVie8TZIQZ8

[spacehead333]

Were is that tiger from?

[waldo041]

in another vid he says he got it from here.

http://www.michasguitar.com/Gallery/Gallery.htm

peace,
waldo

[brazilhead]

Here's a brand new video in E that helped me a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9YIz60pRz4

[tigerstrat]

that's the key of this song other than on the Garcia album, no?

[Octal]

that's the key of this song other than on the Garcia album, no?

Well, the Reckoning version is in D.

[Tennessee Jedi]

Here's a brand new video in E that helped me a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9YIz60pRz4

its pretty good

[tigerstrat]

that's the key of this song other than on the Garcia album, no?

Well, the Reckoning version is in D.

Reckoning = E: http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/the-grateful-dead/album/reckoning-bonus-tracks/track/bird-song-live

But OK so I did a little research. The earliest live versions 2/19/71 to 8/23/71 are in D. They also rehearsed it in D with Keith in Sept/Oct 1971 before his first tour, but the next live performance of Bird Song turned out to be in the key of E, 7/18/72 Jersey City. All live versions of this song from 7/18/72 and later are in E, which incidentally encompasses all acoustic versions. Peace.

[Pete B.]

I always play/sing this one in D on 6-string guitar.
If someone calls it in E, I am hoping I am either on 7-string guitar (the intro lick is exactly the same, ya just start on string 7), or Pedal Steel (very easy to transpose a full step).
I basically do the Garcia album version. I love the way that sounds, and I just don't get the same vibe from other versions.

[ebick]

I always play/sing this one in D <snip>I basically do the Garcia album version. I love the way that sounds, and I just don't get the same vibe from other versions.

^^^ This. I know they changed it to E, but I'm just all about the D version.

[tigerstrat]

I always play/sing this one in D <snip>I basically do the Garcia album version. I love the way that sounds, and I just don't get the same vibe from other versions.

^^^ This. I know they changed it to E, but I'm just all about the D version.

the early D ones don't do it quite the same for me. To my ears it would be really tough to beat 6/22/73 Vancouver B.C... although my best attended was the stupendous 12/28/88 in Oakland.

[ebick]

I always play/sing this one in D <snip>I basically do the Garcia album version. I love the way that sounds, and I just don't get the same vibe from other versions.

^^^ This. I know they changed it to E, but I'm just all about the D version.

the early D ones don't do it quite the same for me. To my ears it would be really tough to beat 6/22/73 Vancouver B.C... although my best attended was the stupendous 12/28/88 in Oakland.

For me, it's one thing to play it and another to hear the Dead play it. I have no problem hearing them in E......it's just that for me, playing it myself, I prefer D.

[Pete B.]

That intro on the album is how I want it to sound when I play it.
That is the quinnisential take on it, to my ear.
I'll go a step furthur and say that Loser from that album is also how I do Loser. The entire solo stays in Am. fwiw, not a fan of the pick-chime solo over the verse chords.
I also do Wheel like it is on the album. With Pedal Steel, and at that hightened tempo.
That's just the way it was for me between '76-'81 or so, as I was in 9th-12th grade learning Guitar and Pedal Steel. Records were my only reference.
I still love all those records.

[ebick]

That intro on the album is how I want it to sound when I play it.
That is the quinnisential take on it, to my ear.
I'll go a step furthur and say that Loser from that album is also how I do Loser. The entire solo stays in Am. fwiw, not a fan of the pick-chime solo over the verse chords.
I also do Wheel like it is on the album. With Pedal Steel, and at that hightened tempo.
That's just the way it was for me between '76-'81 or so, as I was in 9th-12th grade learning Guitar and Pedal Steel. Records were my only reference.
I still love all those records.

you and me.....we are on the same page....except I don't know pedal steel