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Paul Honeycutt

 

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Colorado, USA
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2005 10:26 pm    
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Does anyone know what tuning this is in? It's from David Lindley's "Very Greasy" and also on one of his live duo CD's.
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Travis Bernhardt

 

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Post  Posted 21 Jul 2005 10:52 pm    
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D shape tuning (low to high: 151351), but I don't recall whether he plays it in D or E (probably D).

-Travis
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Alvin Blaine


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Post  Posted 22 Jul 2005 12:45 am    
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On the "David Lindley & Hani Nasser Official Bootleg I, Live in Tokyo-Playing Real Good" CD he strums a couple of time while introducing the song.

He plays the song in F and to me it sounds like an F6 tuning. He has the low 6th string tuned to an F(he keeps a bass drone with it) and I remember hearing a D on the top end, I think the first string is a D. I just haven't heard it in a while so I don't remember what the other stings were.

I need to listen to it again, but I think it's, Low to high- F C F A C D
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Tim Tweedale

 

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Post  Posted 22 Jul 2005 12:56 am    
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Ah, that old chestnut. That was the first song by David Lindley I ever figured out. (I have since figured out most of his other songs too).
It's in F Major, both on "Very Greasy" and "Playing Real Good".

F Major, low to high is FCFACF.

Like Travis said, it's a 151351 shape.

For almost all of David Lindley's Weissenborn songs, the tuning matches the key of the song.

-Tim
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Alvin Blaine


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Post  Posted 22 Jul 2005 1:27 am    
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I just listened to it on line, it is F. Just like Tim said.
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Paul Honeycutt

 

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Colorado, USA
Post  Posted 22 Jul 2005 7:56 pm    
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Thanks, guys!
So it's E major tuned a half step up. I can do that.

[This message was edited by Paul Honeycutt on 22 July 2005 at 08:57 PM.]

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