From: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org (wanderer-digest) To: wanderer-digest@smoe.org Subject: wanderer-digest V2 #54 Reply-To: wanderer@smoe.org Sender: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wanderer-digest Tuesday, October 22 2002 Volume 02 : Number 054 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: BOUNCE wanderer@smoe.org: Non-member submission from ["Bree Mcdonough" ] [] some interesting sites about tunings [M.Russell@iaea.org] RE: some interesting sites about tunings ["Kate Bennett" Subject: Fwd: BOUNCE wanderer@smoe.org: Non-member submission from ["Bree Mcdonough" ] - --- begin forwarded text Status: U Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:05:58 -0400 (EDT) From: owner-wanderer@smoe.org To: owner-wanderer@smoe.org Subject: BOUNCE wanderer@smoe.org: Non-member submission from ["Bree Mcdonough" ] Received: from hotmail.com (f68.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.68]) by smoe.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9KG5qkM010540; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:05:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 09:02:07 -0700 Received: from 66.119.33.135 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:02:06 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.119.33.135] From: "Bree Mcdonough" To: sem8@cornell.edu, joni@smoe.org Cc: wanderer@smoe.org Subject: Re: Second Fret songs and the gap ad Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:02:06 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2002 16:02:07.0091 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A0A8C30:01C27852] Excellent!! I love your dramatic color scheme. My sister and I are doing a carved pumpkin of Joni....cig and all. (a beautiful way to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon) IF it turns out decent..I'll send it as an attachment. Bree >http://www.jmdl.com/wanderer/jonipastel.htm > >Received the Jonifest discs yesterday (thanks Jody!!!) and am really >enjoying listening to you talented people. > >have a great weekend, suemc >-- > ____________________ > /____________________\ > ||-------------------|| > || Sue McNamara || > || sem8@cornell.edu || > ||___________________|| > || O etch-a-sketch O || > \___________________/ > > > > "It's all a dream she has awake" - _________________________________________________________________ Broadband? Dial-up? Get reliable MSN Internet Access. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp - --- end forwarded text - -- Susan McNamara Assistant to the Dean of Students Cornell University 401 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Voice: (607) 255-1115 FAX: (607) 255-8082 E-Mail:sem8@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:49:03 +0200 From: M.Russell@iaea.org Subject: some interesting sites about tunings Thought you all might like to take a look at these pages: http://www.win.net/mainstring/tunings.html http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/tuning.html The article in the second link is mostly about tuning a steel guitar, but I found it quite interesting. I plugged the six-string tunings from the second link into Excel and input their tuning patterns, because the letters just totally confuse me. Here's what I got: A B D F A C x23343 B D E G# C# E x32453 C# E G A C E x33234 C# E G Bb C D x33322 A C E G C E x34354 G B D E G B x43234 B D# F# A C# E x43343 G B D G A D x43525 G B D G B D x43543 A C# E A C# E x43543 G B E G B D x45343 F# A# E G# C# E x46453 G# C# E G# C# E x53453 A D F# A C E x54333 G C E G B D x54343 G C G A C E x57234 D G D F# B D x57433 C G D G A D x57525 D G D G Bb D x57534 E A E A C# E x57543 D G D G B D x57543 D G D G C D x57552 A D Bb G C E x58954 E B D G B D x73533 E B D G B E x73535 D A D D A D x75075 D A D F A D x75345 E B E G# B E x75435 D A D F# A D x75435 D A D G A D x75525 C G C G C C x75750 C G C G C D x75752 C G C G C Eb x75753 C G C G C E x75754 E B F# B C# D x77521 E C G A C E x87234 Haven't had a chance to compare the above with Joni's patterns, but at first glance I get the impression that there are quite a few in the above that she has never used. Marian This email message is intended only for the use of the named recipient. 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Also please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:41:20 -0700 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: some interesting sites about tunings excellent articles, thanks so much marian... here is my latest obsession- i've been really in a new (to me) favorite tuning (i think it is called open C): C G C G C E in one day i happened to read 3 different articles by folks who were raving about this tuning, so i had to try it (one person was tom rush)...i've written 2 songs in it now & am so enamoured that i don't want to ever leave it! also by changing the 4th string C up to D i realized i could play night ride home & the couple of songs i wrote in this tuning...by changing the fingering just a bit...you will how this can happen if you look at how the top three strings in the above tuning are GCE, in night ride home she has EGC (same notes in different places)...the new way is so much easier to go to from standard tuning because there are fewer strings to be changing (E stays the same, B goes up one 1/2 step to C & G stays the same) are there any folks out there who have figured out shawn colvin's orion in the sky? i nearly have it, i think, in that CGCGCE tuning & it sounds pretty good...but it may need a bit of refinement.. ******************************************** Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs Over the Moon- "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" All Music Guide ******************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:46:36 -0700 From: Jim McCarthy Subject: Re: some interesting sites about tunings Patty Larkin has written several songs in open C, and/or a slight variant where the high E string is tuned down to D. "Booth of Glass" is a favorite of mine (CGCGCD; capo 5 or 7 - don't recall off-hand). Starting from the open 4th string (C), frets 0,2,4,5 are the major scale which continues on frets 0,2,4,5 of the 3rd string (G) ... the symmetry there is well suited to my simpleton memory, and not-extremely-well-trained left-hand fingers ! Maybe this is a FAQ, but is there a space on the JMDL guitar site for tabs of non-Joni songs in alternate tunings ? Purpose wouldn't (couldn't) be to be "comprehensive" as in the case of Joni's material ... just a space for contributions by those who feel so motivated to share, and where others can look for more variety of material (and with less re-tuning!). -- Jim McCarthy Kate Bennett wrote: > > excellent articles, thanks so much marian... > > here is my latest obsession- i've been really in a new (to me) favorite > tuning (i think it is called open C): > > C G C G C E > > in one day i happened to read 3 different articles by folks who were raving > about this tuning, so i had to try it (one person was tom rush)...i've > written 2 songs in it now & am so enamoured that i don't want to ever leave > it! > > also by changing the 4th string C up to D i realized i could play night ride > home & the couple of songs i wrote in this tuning...by changing the > fingering just a bit...you will how this can happen if you look at how the > top three strings in the above tuning are GCE, in night ride home she has > EGC (same notes in different places)...the new way is so much easier to go > to from standard tuning because there are fewer strings to be changing (E > stays the same, B goes up one 1/2 step to C & G stays the same) > > are there any folks out there who have figured out shawn colvin's orion in > the sky? i nearly have it, i think, in that CGCGCE tuning & it sounds pretty > good...but it may need a bit of refinement.. > > ******************************************** > Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com > Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs > Over the Moon- > "bringing the melancholy world of twilight > to life almost like magic" All Music Guide > ******************************************** ------------------------------ End of wanderer-digest V2 #54 *****************************