Christopher Cross’s song “Sailing” is a popular and influential piece of music. The song features three chords: E, A, and E. To learn the chords, start at 37 BPM and match the original tempo of 75 BPM. Tune your capo to accommodate your vocal range, referencing the song’s key: A Major.
The song begins with an intro, followed by a verse, bridge, chorus, and ending. The guitar tutorial includes all parts of the song, including the intro, verse, bridge, chorus, and ending. The song is played at half speed, with the intro, verse, bridge, chorus, and ending.
To follow along with the video lesson, it is important to get into the same tuning as the original recording, which is called open D tuning. This tuning, starting from the 6th string, is D A D F A D.
In this guitar tutorial, you can play along with the original audio and use transpose and capo to change the chords. The song is intermediate in difficulty and has a tuning of E A D G B E. The capo 2nd fret note is used to name all chords one whole step.
Instead of using alternate tunings, learn the song in standard tuning with YouTube tutorials. The capo 2nd fret note is used to name all chords one whole step.
📹 Sailing Guitar Lesson – Christopher Cross
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Perfect! This demo is absolutely perfect! Thanks Carl. I so appreciate this demo of “Sailing”. I am doing fine on guitar, but, I am getting lazier lately. Playing for 57 years at 72 years old. I have arthritis starting in my hands and a lot of my playing has to be re-invented now. Sad but true. (Hey kids, play your asses of while you still have your youth!) So, I used to play this perfectly in a band back in 1979 when the song was still fairly fresh. I scoped it out perfectly on guitar in regular tuning, and it was a mind and hand f**k! But, I had it. But, now, I can’t come close. I decided to surf out here and see what I could find to maybe give me some options. Then, I fell upon your article here. Who knew that Cross was using an open D?! Doh!!! Now, it all comes clear. I can do it and am recording it tonight. I do a solo gig with my own backup tracks and I have always loved this song (as does everyone else on the planet!). So, thank you so much for helping to put me on the perfectly right track to honouring this song as it should be. My best appreciation is returned to you as a “Subscribe” and a “Like”. Thanks man. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve wanted to learn this for a long time and I can always appreciate the accurate transcription from the album. I hate wading through tons of tabs on the internet that are all wrong and I can’t get to that spot of joy that you get when you know you’re playing it right and then you are in tune and harmony with the guys that actually wrote and recorded this wonderful hit.
One cool things you’ll find the once you get into open D tuning if you go back and look at this lesson is you could play almost 80% of the Bee Gees 70s music because Barry Gibb wrote almost all of the stuff in open D tuning…you can one finger cord away on jive talkin staying alive Night fever just get down and have some fun long as you got it in that tuning just saying.💃🕺