From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #325 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 Friday, February 28 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 325 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: For the Roses tunings [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:11:46 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: For the Roses tunings kmk, Yes, I play FTR in standard tuning at capo 1. Heres a live capture of us playing it at Holycombe Fest 08: http://tinyurl.com/lbe2udh Correction: Electricity (capo 3) and Cold Blue Steel I play in drop top D, not double drop D. On Feb 27, 2014, at 10:58 PM, kmk wrote: > Really? Without even bringing the 5th string down to a G? I've always played all 3 of those songs in CGDGBD - that low C comes in handy on For the Roses's Cminor, and I can hardly imagine doing the bass run in CBS&SF without it. But leaving that A in there would drive me nuts trying to work around it. > > > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:13:49 -0800 > From: Dave Blackburn > Subject: Re: tunings > > I think that if the sonorities and the voicings are right, the tuning/fingering is a matter of preference, or on-stage convenience in my case. For example, I play Furry in drop D; Its the same notes as Jonis version but I can get into the tuning faster than using Jonis and the guitar is happier because the neck is not being torqued in a way that it was not built for. Same idea with Electricity and Cold Blue Steel which I do in double drop D, For the Roses in standard etc. For me Jonis exact tuning is not as much her cool innovation as her voicings, and those can be played in different ways, in many cases. Sometimes she chose a tuning that let her play the chords with one or two fingers, so ease was a factor; apparently her polio experience left her hand strength weaker. > > One another, but related note, I bet Joni would have loved having a baritone guitar, which are now commonplace but were rare in her heyday. All those slack strings and pitchy intonation issues go away when the guitar is meant to be dropped down a third or fourth. I played Hejira on a Brazilian rosewood baritone once and it was a whole different thing having it in tune. > > Dave ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #325 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------