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Topic: Duane's Midnight Rider tuning |
Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 29 Apr 2004 7:23 pm |
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Anybody know what tuning or guitar Duane Allman used on the song? I got to cover the part on 6 string lap or slide and can't quite figure it out. Sounds like it could be some form of D or G, but the ones I've tried just don't sound right. Looks like we'll be going for the original version in key of D. It's probably here somewhere in a pile of GP's but I thought some of you might know offhand. Thanks JO.
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Rick McDuffie
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Benson, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 29 Apr 2004 8:15 pm
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I've always played it on 6-string electric in standard tuning. Use your pinky to cover the E and B string at the tenth fret, then fret the G string at the 9th fret (playing an "E") with your third finger and bend it up to F# by pushing with all three available fingers. Has worked great for me these past 30 years!
The challenge is to play the Duane AND Dickey parts smoothly (with just one guitar) on the C to Gm change.
Good luck!
Rick |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 29 Apr 2004 8:29 pm
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| Thanks Rick, I'll give that a try! |
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 4 May 2004 7:22 am
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I picked w/Duane in high school and knew him well for the rest of his life. One time in 1969 he was passing through Portsmouth Va where I was living and he and the Bros had a gig at The Lighthouse on which my band happened to be the opening act. The band's gear got waylaid in a rent-a-truck somewhere between New York and Va so they used our gear and Duane borrowed my Tele for the gig. When he gave it back to me after the gig,I niticed he'd strung it with heavy strings and jacked the action way up so he could play slide. It was tuned normally. I asked him about his slide playing since he hadn't played slide when I knew him in high school and he said he used open tunings on acoustic but on electric w/the band onstage,he just went with a standard tuning so he could switch back and forth between fingers and slide with a minimum of hassle. I saw the band play several times after that and Duane always seemed to be using standard tuning. The real question for me was: How the hell did he finger the bluesy string bending style with such heavy strings and high action.
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Chuck S. Lettes
From:
Denver, Colorado
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Posted 13 May 2004 5:09 am
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Hello Michael,
Nice to see your post on Duane Allman. He was (and still is) a primary influence and hero to me. Could you start a separate thread and post some of your favorite memories of Duane? Hope all is well for you, and I hope to see you in St. Louis.
Chuck |
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Mike Brown
From:
Meridian, Mississippi USA
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Posted 13 May 2004 5:27 am
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| Having spent my teenage years near Macon, Georgia, Duane and Dicky influenced my playing heavily. I was fortunate to be around Macon during that time. |
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Billy Woo
From:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Posted 13 May 2004 10:12 am
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"Midnight Rider" is one of the songs that my group plays and I detune the low E to D while the actual key (to us) is D now I realize this may not be Duane's actual tuning but it does sound fat and I've been playing that song this way for years..
Bronco Billy
(formerly of Washington D.C)
now lost in LA |
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