Frank Welsh
From:
Upstate New York, USA
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Posted 2 Jun 2013 12:06 pm |
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Michael, the tuning for "Mona Lisa" is not all that important since Santo plays the tune almost exclusively with single notes. Nearly any tuning will do. From the recording its not clear to me what tuning he used.
That said, Santo did use the C#m7th tuning for many of Santo & Johnny's big hits, including "Sleepwalk," "Teardrop," and "Caravan." He seemed to favor this tuning although the A6th tuning can be heard on their Hawaiian album ("Hawaii Santo & Johnny").
I would personally use C#m7 or C6 to play this tune, depending on what, if any, chords I would like to feature that Santo chose not to use in his arrangement since he preferred to voice his leads like a vocalist would. His "vocalist" approach, in my opinion, gives his playing an appeal that easily extends to the general listening audience and not just to us steel guitar enthusiasts. Perhaps there's a lesson for us there. |
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