From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #294 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, February 21 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 294 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #46 [Susan Tierney McNamara ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:25:41 +0000 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #46 Ahhhh I love all those wasted hours playing Joni songs!! :-) - -----Original Message----- From: Robert Sartorius [mailto:bobsart48@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:16 AM To: Susan Tierney McNamara; joni@smoe.org Cc: mjsentance@gmail.com; gentaman_jim@yahoo.com Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #46 Hi Sue Yeah - I got that. In fact, I just picked up my guitar, tuned it to All I Want, and started playing. I now realize that while I fret the intro (and outro) with my middle finger on the D (tuned to F) string, I use my index finger during the verses and mute with both my middle and ring fingers. It's been a couple of years, so I am wrestling again with getting the "distances" right. I can feel a couple of hours going to pot. Bobsart (now in sunny Fla). - -----Original Message----- From: Susan Tierney McNamara [mailto:sem8@cornell.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:52 AM To: Robert Sartorius; joni@smoe.org Cc: mjsentance@gmail.com; gentaman_jim@yahoo.com Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #46 Hi Bob, I did look at Howard's tab for the guitulcimer! Haha. But as I said, my goal was to not change tunings on stage. I would love to go back to that tab again and perfect that version, or go buy a dulcimer. I've drooled over some at a local music store here, but I had to give all my money to the plumber this month. !! Take care, Sue - -----Original Message----- From: Robert Sartorius [mailto:bobsart48@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:47 AM To: joni@smoe.org Cc: mjsentance@gmail.com; Susan Tierney McNamara; gentaman_jim@yahoo.com Subject: RE: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #46 Sue posted "I didn't have a dulcimer handy (hahaha) so I cobbed up a quick Joniesque version of All I Want based on NRH/Turbulent Indigo type chord shapes. I couldn't believe it worked out! Simple but workable. Actually the shapes remind me more of NRH. Joni rules!! :-)" What, no dulcimer? OK - but another alternative might have been to go to Howard Wright's tab for "guitarlcimer" on your very own transcription section of Jonimitchell.com. He suggests several alternatives for playing it. I picked what he describes as one of his "simpler" ones, in which the highest four strings (DGBE) are tuned to F# G# G# G# (I use F G G G to protect my G string ;-)). I fret only the D and E strings, using my middle and pinky fingers, and leave the middle two as drones. Howard thinks this doesn't sound as good as fretting three strings, but I think it sounds fine. In addition, Howard cautions that you should be careful to mute the low E and A strings (this can be done with your ring finger, if you choose my approach of only fretting two strings). As a second line of defense, I tune the E and A strings to G, so that if they do get hit in an open position without being muted, the tone is the drone note itself, and it sounds OK anyway. I learned to play this a couple of years after I first discovered the tab site, and have had occasional fun with it ever since. (Occasional because of the hassle of slack tuning the stuff, then restoring the tuning once you get tired of playing the same song over and over for a couple of hours :-) It would be nice to have the James Taylor licks accompanying myself, but I don't know how to play them (I can do California and A Case of You, which appear in the Hits and Misses songbooks, but All I Want is not on those records, and I am a lazy dog). More important, it would be nice to have someone who can sing a lick join me :-) Michael Sentence posted about Taylor Swift "Does she resemble the early Joni? This photo suggests it could work:" http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3791630592/nm2357847 I'd call that an understatement. Finally, Jim "Lamadoo's" comments about Swift's arm art (from BSN and California) suggest the interest is already there at her end, which would be an important component for whoever is trying to nail the part. I do hope this project gets done, Jim, despite your skepticism. Bobsart ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #294 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send tojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------