A Day in the Life Jeff Beck Here is a big chunk of Jeff Beck's live version of the Beatles' "a day in the life". My guitar was tuned to open G (DGDGBD) the first time I listened to the song, and I found that it worked quite nicely. More than that, this tuning allows you to at least approach the wide-spectrum, thick, distorted harmonics that Beck uses to mimic the orchestral qualities of the original song. If you can boost the lows and highs, without adding much distortion as a result, d (guitartabs.cc)