Fingerstyle Tunes in DGDGBE?
Karl Dentino
Kicking Mule recordings. Does any body have any good fingerstyle
tunes in DGDGBE I might add to my repertoire? Thanks, Karl
Sojourner 1689
>Does any body have any good fingerstyle
>tunes in DGDGBE I might add to my repertoire?
I have the following in this tuning:
Sevilla / Issac Albeniz
Black Coffee / Paul Francis Webster & Sonny Burke
Maple Leaf Rag / Scott Joplin
They are all in the TablEdit program
Steve
Old Pueblo
Gerry Nelson
In addition:
Wheels / Chet Atkins
Nola / arr. Muriel Anderson
I Swear / arr. Doug Smith
Orange Blossom Special / arr. Charles David Alexander
Gerry
robohop
The Last Time I Saw Home by John Pell
Lord Inchiquin (sp?) -- can't recall the arranger ... Johnathan
Edwards?
Both have been published in Fingerstyle Magazine within the last two
years and both get good audience reactions.
When the mood strikes ... drop that high E to a D too and all sorts of
stuff comes into target range, blues, celtic, rock, etc. Then, raise
that B string to a C and you have one of the nicest celtic tunings
you'll find.
It's like a drug, be careful out there,
best,
rob anderson
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Kent
I think Chet used this tuning a lot. He used it on El Humahuaqueno from the
Class Guitar Album and he may have used it for Yellow Bird from the same LP.
I believe Class Guitar is one of the few Chet Atkins LP's that has not been
reissued, certainly one of the most obscure and definately my favorite.
Kent Fishburn
Axel Lorei
> I have the following in this tuning:
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any www-pages around for this?
thanks
axel
Dave H
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http://freetabs.members.easyspace.com/listtabs.htm
But you need tabledit to view it. You can download the demo version for
free.
dave h
P Kucharski
> I recently got reacquainted with this tuning, thanks to some old
> Kicking Mule recordings. Does any body have any good fingerstyle
> tunes in DGDGBE I might add to my repertoire? Thanks, Karl
Try any of the Lonnie Johnson tunes that have been transcribed (Woody
Mann or Stefan Grossman). Many of them have been transcribed in this
tuning....good stuff too.
Paul Kucharski
Mike Marquis
Hedberg
My understanding is that Lonnie Johnson's playing in this tuning is in
D and much of it may be transcribed alternatively in drop D. I
haven't experimented with trying things that normally show up in drop
D in this tuning, but I imagine some interesting things might
develop. Last week I participated in a guitar workshop where Seattle
blues-woman Del Ray was one of the instructors. She demonstrated a Bo
(Chatmon) Carter tune ("Shake 'Em on Down") in this tuning and is
quite sure that a bunch of his repertoire in G ("I Want You To
Know",which Woody Mann transcribed in open G, for example) is not
played in open G but in DGDGBE instead. I had never really thought of
it, but it gives the ability to play both G chord and D chord forms up
the neck using standard tuning fingerings on the top four strings.
Very cool.
Harold
Robert Van Niel
Grizzly Bear - Ton Van Bergeyk
Haag City Dance - Ton Van Bergeyk
Hilarity Rag - Leo Wijnkamp, Jr.
The Sycamore-A Concert Rag - Leo Wijnkamp, Jr.
Also I'll add Dave Laibman's version of Grandpa's Spells which is in
CGDGBE tuning.
Rob
William D Clinger
> Does any body have any good fingerstyle
> tunes in DGDGBE I might add to my repertoire?
I play Hewlett (Carolan) and The Blarney Pilgrim
(traditional) in this tuning; PDF files are at
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Music/repertoire1.html
Will
Julian Templeman
>Some of my favorites are:
>
>Grizzly Bear - Ton Van Bergeyk
That's just about my all-time favourite ragtime piece - thanks for
reminding me about it! Now, where's that tab book...
julian
somewhere over southern england...
Joe Carpenter
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> I recently got reacquainted with this tuning, thanks to some old
> Kicking Mule recordings. Does any body have any good fingerstyle
> tunes in DGDGBE I might add to my repertoire? Thanks, Karl
One with a neat groove that I like is Embryonic Journey, but there's
a ton of them out there.
Have fun.
Regards,
Joe
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Herb
Two by Eric Lugosch (http://www.ericlugosch.com)
Eighth of January
Cajun Cook
Both of these were featured in FingerStyle Guitar magazine at one
time. They are a lot of fun to play.
Two from Duck Baker (his 'Opening the Eyes of Love' CD)
Pharaoh's Army
The Dodder Bank
This tuning is kind of the next logical step to dropped D for me. It
makes playing up the neck in the key of G a snap, while maintaining a
nice low bass note.
Robert Van Niel
I thought Embryonic Journey was in Dropped D...at least that's the
tuning I use to play it. Do you know something I don't?
Rob
Joe Carpenter
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> Joe Carpenter wrote:
> > One with a neat groove that I like is Embryonic Journey, but there's
> > a ton of them out there.
> I thought Embryonic Journey was in Dropped D...at least that's the
> tuning I use to play it. Do you know something I don't?
>
> Rob
Holy cow.....I missed the low G!
In my best Emilee voice "oh....never mind". <g>
Thanks Rob. I need to either decrease the meds, or increase them, eh?!
Regards,
Joe
Jerry
DGDGBE is a fun tuning. It was one of the late Chet Atkins' widely used alternate tunings. Adrian Legg uses it a lot, too (now THERE's a finger stylist!!!). I worked these out with the recordings, by ear, so I can't tell you where to find the tablature, but Yellow Bird and Both Sides Now (Chet Atkins' arrangements) use this G6 tuning. From Adrian Legg, with his permission, of course, you could try Frank, the Part Time Clown (from "Mrs. Crowe's Blue Waltz"), or For Nanci (from "Guitar for Mortals").
I managed also to work out a finger style version of Enya's Marble Halls (form her "Shepherd Moons" disk). Another source you might explore is any body of Hawaiian slack key music. This is also a variation on what was known as taro patch tuning. Check out some of Nanci Griffith's tunes as well. She uses G6 a lot. Last of all, noodle around yourself with this tuning. I've composed three or four tunes of my own with this tuning, and use them at open mics with interesting results every time.
Have a blast!!
Jerry
Mike P.
grooving COLORED ARISTOCRACY in this tuning, on his "Black Key Blues"
cd. Both are transcribed in full in a book available thru Acoustic
Music.
Duck Baker does a great hard-gospel original in 3/4 in this tuning
called PHARAOH'S ARMY, on his "Opening the Eyes of Love" cd. My cd
came with a transcription in the liner notes. Duck also does a bunch
of really pretty, lesser-known Xmas carols in this tuning -- the
transcriptions, along with a cd, can be found thru Mel Bay ("The
Salutation").
Mike P.
Scott Kiefer
My Martin realy likes this tuning, though some of the songs that
showed up were kind of bizarre.
Ghost of a Dog--Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Edelweiss--Sound of Music soundtrack
Colonel Bogey March--Bridge on the River Kwai soundtrack
Thanks for the new sounds.
scott