From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #331 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 331 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: For the Roses tunings [Anita ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:20:50 +0100 From: Anita Subject: Re: For the Roses tunings Happy Days.........beautiful Anita On 28 Feb 2014, at 17:11, Dave Blackburn wrote: > 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 #331 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------