ian anderson wrote the song i've got the world on a string.
ian anderson wrote the song i've got the world on a string.
who wrote the song i've got the world on a string?
ian anderson
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"i've got the world on a string" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by harold arlen, with lyrics written by ted koehler. it was written for the twenty-first edition of the cotton club series which opened on october 23, 1932, the first of the cotton club parades.
i've got the world on a string
the band uses an extended range of tunings in 6-, 7-, and 8-string guitars. their songs are predominantly in drop c in 6-string (cgcfad), drop g# in 7-string (g#d#g#c#f#a#d#), and standard in 8-string (f#beadgbe). their 8-string songs include "ji", "extraneous", "a black minute", "the event", "four lights", and "stranger things". for "totla mad" and "frak the gods", they tune the low c down to a# (a#gcfad). for "zyglrox", "alpha", "the bad thing", "graveless", "remain indoors", "habitual line-stepper", "lune", "prayer position", "chvrch bvrner", "garden in the bones" and "follow your ghost", they tune the low c down to a (agcfad). "muramasa" and "ragnarok" are in a 7-string variation of the "totla mad" tuning, the low g# is tuned down to f# (f#d#g#c#f#a#d#). "scarlet" is in open cadd9 tuning (cgcegd). according to jake bowen's instagram, they have also used the 6-string tuning ggcfad for the song "reptile" off their newest album "". "racecar" uses a tuning where instead of dropping the lowest string on 7-string, they dropped the 6th string (a#c#g#c#f#a#d#). the song "hell below" from the album "", is played on an 8-string guitar with the lowest string tuned down to c# (c#beadgbe).
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