Tablature tunings - Mississippi John Hurt

          



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  From: panka001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Jon A Pankake)

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  >Mike Chu (gt0179a@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:

  

  >: I've figured out some of the tunes from MS John Hurt's live Best of album,

  >: but there are still a few tracks that stump me...  Does anybody out there

  >: know what tunings he uses?

  

  Hurt seldom tuned to concert pitch, so some of his keys may be difficult

  to identify for that reason.  I am sure his FRANKIE is played in DGDGBD,

  and PAYDAY seems to be in a open D, DADF#AD.  TALKING CASEY JONES, given

  the knife technique, is also in one of these open tunings as well. 

  Another player recommended open E, but I get nervous about my old guitars

  and extra-light strings, so I never retune anything ABOVE concert pitch. 

  You can play the same fingering in the open D as you would in an open E,

  with less stress on the instrument.  Good luck, and keep working on those

  great Hurt tunes!

  

  

  

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  From: searls@buphy.bu.edu (Dave Searls)

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  : Michael Robinson (maidhc@netcom.com) wrote:

  : : Mike Chu (gt0179a@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:

  

  : : : I've figured out some of the tunes from MS John Hurt's live Best of album,

  : : : but there are still a few tracks that stump me...  Does anybody out there

  : : : know what tunings he uses?

  

  

  : : Mostly he used standard tuning, but he also used open G and it wouldn't

  : : surprise me if he did a few in open D also.

  

  I believe he uses mostly standard tuning.  There are a few things in

  Open G(DGDGBD), like Frankie and Albert, and I believe Sliding

  Delta is played in open D.  I learned Frankie and Albert from the

  Rory Block tapes that Homespun sells. She teaches it is open G, and

  probably saw John Hurt play it that way.  You can get these

  tapes from Homespun(800-33-tapes).  I have also seen(in a catalog) a 6 tape

  set on the Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt by Stefan Grossman.  I think

  that there are tapes devoted to the different tunings and to blues in

  different keys.  You can get the catalog from:

  

  Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop

  P.O Box 802

  Sparta, New Jersey 07871

  

  

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  From: schguitar@aol.com (SchGuitar)

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  In article <33iicb$7mj@acmex.gatech.edu>, gt0179a@prism.gatech.edu (Mike

  Chu) writes:

  

  :I've figured out some of the tunes from MS John Hurt's live Best of

  album,

  :but there are still a few tracks that stump me...  Does anybody out there

  :know what tunings he uses?

  

  I saw John Hurt at one of his first shows up North. The club was called

  The Ontario Place, I think, in the D.C. area. I asked him to play Frankie.

  He agreed, said it was in open G but couldn't or didn't want to try to

  retune his guitar, so asked me to tune mine for him. I did, and his

  playing of the tune was all I could wish for.

  

  Another interesting anecdote that evening was when we were sitting around

  a table in-between sets, John very gingerly asked me if I thought the

  management would mind if he took a sugar cube from the bowl for his

  coffee. He told me he'd been on the plantation all his life except for the

  one time they brought him to New York in the Twenties to make his early

  recordings. His rediscovery brought him into a whole different world, and

  his shy, quiet ways were as refreshing to us as our city ways were a

  challenge to him.

                                                             

  ..............................Eric Schoenberg

  

  

  From olsen@ohsu.edu Sun Aug 28 11:07:31 EDT 1994

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  In article <33iicb$7mj@acmex.gatech.edu> gt0179a@prism.gatech.edu (Mike Chu) writes:

  >From: gt0179a@prism.gatech.edu (Mike Chu)

  >Subject: Mississippi John Hurt

  >Date: 25 Aug 1994 12:54:35 -0400

  

  

  >I've figured out some of the tunes from MS John Hurt's live Best of album,

  >but there are still a few tracks that stump me...  Does anybody out there

  >know what tunings he uses?

  

  If You Don't Want Me... you got to have me anyhow (or something like) that is 

  in DADF#AD as is Payday and I think...Talking Casey. As everyone else 

  has added Frankie is in DGDGBD.    I think the rest are in some form of 

  standard tuning. 

  

  My $0.02 worth

  Get your hands on Stefan Grossman's book on MJH it's worth it.

  

  >Mike

  

  >-- 

  >Mike Chu  --  Chemical Engineering

  >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332

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