Ballad of Big Nothing Elliott Smith Ballad of Big Nothing - Elliot Smith Tuning: Open C: CGCEGC This tuning may not work well on many peopleā??s steel string guitars so I wrote it in Open D instead. However if you want to play in Open C the tab is exactly the same. Instead of retyping each chord each time it is strummed, I just entered ā??Dā??s and ā??Uā??s below the tab line to indicate the strums, down or up. So the number of Dā??s and Uā??s is the number of strums on that chord (Listen to (azchords.com)