| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning | | Date: | Friday, November 2, 2007 20:25:38 (-0500) | | From: | D. Tannehill <ephsmath-phys @...net>
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| In reply to: | Message 7742 (written by Josey Rigs) |
Wow, what a delima. I mostly use the tried and true GBDGBD for most of my
playing, but for a coupla songs, I like to use a varriation of G6 that
Richie showed me, GBEGBD. You are correct that taking time to re-tune sorta
kills the continuity of the show, unless someoen in the band can use the
gift of gab to keep the audience entertained while you crank up those 2
strings. The option mentioned of using two instruments can work, but
swapping resos onstage can be a bit frustrating also if there isn't enough
gab to fill the void. Even though I'm only changing one string, that's what
I've opted to do. I keep Virginia (2005 Tut Taylor Virginian) tuned standard
and Hazel (1986 OMI 60DS) is waiting on the stand tuned to G6.
I suppose it depends on what genre of music you're playing and your style,
but if most of what you do has the I, IV, V chords, then GBDGBD may be what
you're looking for with the capo ready to go onto the 2nd fret when needed.
Obviously, this tuning is great for key of G, and with a capo at the second
fret, A is handled nicely. But wait, there's more. Take the capo off and
open is now your IV chord for songs in D. Capo at the second again and the
IV chord of E is now open. Of course, if you like to do a lot of scale work
in your breaks, there is a neat little D-scale that uses 4 open strings:
Hopefully the tab makes it thru cyber-space.
-----------------------------0-------
--------------------0----2----------
------------0---2------------------
-0---2---4-------------------------
------------------------------------
-----------------------------------
Naturally, if you move everything over two frets with a capo, it is now an
E-scale. Of course, this scale also works for DADGBD.
Best of luck to you. You've come to the right place for a healthy
discussion.
Dan in RI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josey Rigs" <hierochloe@hotmail.com>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:09 AM
Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning
Hi list.
Started playing dobro about 5 months ago - loving it. My bandmates even like
it enough to have me play it at shows. Right now I play in two tunings, what
I call low G (DADGBD) and D (DADF#AD). I play some songs in one, some songs
in the other depending on the song's key. I'm wondering if there is a
solution to having to re-tune all the time (since that's a bit of a
show-stopper to me) other than forcing the set list to keep all the D/E
songs together and the G/A songs together - that just sucks.
Is there an easy way to use one tuning for all these keys without setting
capo on the 5th fret and such? What tuning is pretty good for all/most of
them, if there is one? Do I just have to get good at changing tunings? My
buddy says I should just get another dobro for this, which I would love to
do of course, but we are already trucking around so many instruments! Any
pointers welcome here, since I don't know anybody that plays dobro to ask
about it.
Thankee!
J
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