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Topic: Tuning for Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde
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Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 24 June 2002 06:49 AM
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Can someone give me the string tuning that was used for Travis Tritt's "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde"?thanks,
Larry |
Alvin Blaine
Member From: Sandy Valley, Nevada, USA
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posted 25 June 2002 12:23 PM
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GBDGBD |
Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 25 June 2002 12:39 PM
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Isn't the song in key of D? It sounds like the top string is tuned down to D. |
Olli Haavisto
Member From: Jarvenpaa,Finland
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posted 25 June 2002 12:51 PM
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The tuning Alvin posted is the standard bluegrass Dobro tuning,listed from low to high.So,the top string is D.------------------
Olli Haavisto
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Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 25 June 2002 01:03 PM
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I understand that. However, my dobro is tuned in G but didn't seem like I could find the riffs that Jerry was playing. I didn't mess with the song very long but thought maybe someone else had. |
Jerry Overstreet
Member From: Louisville Ky
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posted 25 June 2002 04:59 PM
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Boy, there's a bunch of us having trouble findin' the licks that JD plays dontcha know. What a MONSTER player! Some of the guys I play with are starting to do this song. So far, I've only played it on steel....not had my Dobro in the place at the time. I'm gonna have to work it out on Dobro myself...if I come up w/anything I think you can use, I'll let you know.
[This message was edited by Jerry Overstreet on 25 June 2002 at 05:01 PM.]
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Stephen Gambrell
Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA
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posted 25 June 2002 06:23 PM
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Have you tried DADF#AD, low to high? This is just open D, but it's agood tuning, especially for bluesy stuff. |
Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 26 June 2002 06:42 AM
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Hadn't tried that tuning. I knew that he had dropped the top string down to D but didn't have the time to experiment with another tuning.
Question: wouldn't open D tuning be
DF#ADF#A low to high? |
Stephen Gambrell
Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA
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posted 26 June 2002 06:58 AM
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Hey Larry---Of course that would be a D tuning as well, but two F#s (thirds) might be a bit much. DADF#AD is the normal(whatever that is!) D tuning for Dobro, and I know that Jerry uses it a good bit. Note placement takes a little getting used to, but it's a fun tuning. I think the old blues guys called this "Vastapol" tuning.[This message was edited by Stephen Gambrell on 26 June 2002 at 07:00 AM.] |
Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 26 June 2002 07:02 AM
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I'll give it a try. Thanks |
Jim Heffernan
Member From: Nashville, Tn
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posted 27 June 2002 08:23 AM
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Larry, Having only heard it on "Country" radio a couple of times, and never working it out, it sounds like DADF#AD. Jerry does use that tuning quite alot. You can think about it as regular G tuning (GBDGBD) down one string. That is.... Most of the strings will follow your G intervals, just down one string,with a "new" high root on the top string, and a low D on the bottom. SO, if you are used to playing a lick on stings 2 and 3 in G tuning, it will now work on strings 3 and 4 in D tuning, but will be in the key of D not G. |
Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 27 June 2002 08:29 AM
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Is the scale pattern the same as G tuning? |
Alvin Blaine
Member From: Sandy Valley, Nevada, USA
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posted 28 June 2002 12:38 AM
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I just listened to it agian and it is DADF#AD , I play it in G tuning becuse I don't have time to retune between songs.Now I remember when the band learned this song I said something about the low D string that starts the first solo, and that they would have to buy me another Dobro to keep in that tuning just for this song. |
Jim Heffernan
Member From: Nashville, Tn
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posted 28 June 2002 06:22 AM
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Larry
Yes, the middle 4 strings follow the same patterns you know in G, but now they make D licks. |
Larry R
Member From: Navasota, Tx.
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posted 28 June 2002 07:32 AM
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A L L R I G H T.THANKS GUYS. |
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