Chords for (Pt. 1) Stefan Grossman teaches "Just a Closer Walk With Thee"

Three tunes in the key of C, enough of the key of C.
Let's get into an open G tuning
at a different sound from our guitar and see what happens.
Now if you've never been into an open G tuning, don't be scared.
The way to visualize it is not to think of this as being a G chord and you're going to
tune your guitar to that chord.
Instead, if you would play an A chord, move it back a flat and then it's right on the
nut here, that would be an open G chord which means that since this went back to full tone,
you're going to have to go down with the sixth, fifth and first string down a full [D] tone.
So if we play our D note, [E] _ _ [D] _ _
_ I keep rocking backwards and forwards.
I'm tuning down that first string.
I can play my harmonic on the fourth string. _ _ _ _
All right.
Now let's tune down that [E] low E [D] string so _ _ _ _ you have three D notes and use your ears.
Let your ears be your guide and now [Gm] the A string has to go down to a G and we have a
G without open third. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ So now we should be in an open G tuning.
The real acid test for this, if you put a finger on the fifth fret of the first string,
that will sort of bring out [D] if any of the notes are out.
Let's see how I'm [G] doing. _
_ _ _ _ _ Just tweak that one a little bit.
_ _ _ _ Sounds [E] pretty good.
So this is a tune called Just A Closer Walk With Thee.
Oh boy, I know so many different guitar players that play arrangements of this tune.
I just love the melody so I started playing it and it's a very strong melody and when
I do with my arrangement is I'll play the melody and then I'll intersperse a blues
verse just playing a blues, straight blues on the guitar [C] and then go back to Just A Closer
Walk With Thee and then back to a [N] blues and back to Just A Closer Walk.
It was rather interesting.
I was playing at my mother-in-law's funeral and she had passed away last year and some
of her friends, 80-year-old friends, they came up to me and said, oh, I really love
that tune Just A Closer Walk With Thee but I didn't recognize the middle section.
Well, it's not a middle section that's part of Just A Closer Walk.
It's just trying to ease up and play a little bit of a blues melody so it's a nice contrast
between the two.
So here's Just A Closer Walk With Thee played in an open G tuning.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _