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Topic: Tuning used for Little Brown Gal? Got Tab to share? |
Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 11 May 2020 4:52 am |
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Have tried a couple different tunings but not happy with either. Any suggestions?
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Butch Pytko
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Orlando, Florida, USA
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Posted 11 May 2020 11:30 am
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I copied/learned Jules Ah See's arrangement which is on the "Hawaii Calls: Favorite Instrumentals of the Islands" LP. I'm pretty sure he was using the C13 tuning on "The Little Brown Gal".
C13 8 string tuning--top to bottom.....
E
C
A
G
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C
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Keith Bolog
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 11 May 2020 1:08 pm is.....
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......that little grass shack, rather than little brown gal? I get the two confused myself
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Butch Pytko
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Orlando, Florida, USA
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Posted 11 May 2020 4:28 pm
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| Get on youtube, listen to both of them and figure it out! |
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Butch Pytko
From:
Orlando, Florida, USA
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Posted 11 May 2020 5:56 pm
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| OK, I just looked at the "Favorite Instrumentals of the Islands" LP--it lists "My Little Grass Shack", not "My Little Brown Gal"--so, I was wrong on that. Have you figured out which one you're looking for? |
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 12 May 2020 4:54 am
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I've never learned it "officially" but I picked it out a bit recently and liked it in my primary tuning which is Jules C13, mostly sticking around the "primary" position (so if playing in G, hanging mostly around the 7th fret). I'm not doing a lot of chordal work on it, but I think as a melody it fits more of the single note feel anyway. Too jaunty and chromatic for lush harmonies (although a backing steeler might put in some nice 7th and 9th chords).
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 12 May 2020 5:04 am
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Roughly how I play the "hook", I guess this is in F:
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E|--5-6-7-8--8-5---------5----5-6-8-6-5---------
C|---------------6---------7------------4--7-5--
A|-----------------5-----------------------7-5--
G|-------------------5-4------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------
C|----------------------------------------------
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
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Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 12 May 2020 7:41 am I did figure it out.......
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.....BUT in E13 and C6, C6/A7, C13. None ideal. Easier to ask than keep experimenting. Cheers
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