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Re: Hard Time Killin Floor Blues (Reply to this comment)
by Horswispr,  in Musical Instruments
Thanks for the info! I'll try it in DADFAD and see what happens. Drop that G string another half-step and I'd be in the tuning Alex DeGrassi uses for several of his songs, including "Turning"...
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Apr 27 '02
10:07 am PDT
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Hard Time Killin Floor Blues (Reply to this comment)
by fionna
I found your article very helpful and easy to understand. But felt something was not quite right. Did some research on the actual Skip James version of the tune and voila! The actual tuning is DADFAD (which makes it a Dminor),not only for the Skip James version, (with his odd falsetto and clawlike picking) but also for the O Brother version. Give it a try and tell me what you think
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Apr 26 '02
8:43 pm PDT
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Curiously.. ...my fellow commentators comment about the tuning (Reply to this comment)
by geric
I found the ePinion searching the songtitle, having purchased the CD, wanting to suss the songs in the movie. Thanks for the lyrics. A beautifully written essay, as far as I am concerned, written for me as it was. A notch higher than very helpful, more like totally awesome to have chosen this topic, and right on all the way through the commentary.
I'd already detuned the guitar DADGBD. I'm going to mess with that a while--playing the B on the first fret and the G on the second fret then appegiating the last three strings sounds like what I think I heard on Chris' track--but the phrasing on the CD takes about a second. Anyway, I'm not saying it's right or anything, just that I haven't finished playing with it yet. But my most gracious thank you for your essay.
BTW, I am an aspiring keyboardist, but on my lunch break I accompany myself on guitar so I can practice singing. As such, guitar virtuosity is not even the point--but they are great sounding, aren't they? 'Specially when you pinch them strings right. Thanks again.
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May 22 '01
1:15 pm PDT
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Interesting.... (Reply to this comment)
by frazzledspice
Guitar is a secondary instrument for me (piano being my primary instrument.) I have heard of alternative tunings, but have never seen any information on them (or tablature for any chords in the alternative tuning.)
I liked the way you related this tuning to a particular musical type.
The disadvantage, I imagine, would be the necessity to retune if you were playing a whole set. I guess this is why some performers have several guitars on stage--perhaps they are tuned differently for different songs.
Maryanne
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Apr 28 '01
7:34 am PDT
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Now this is what I like (Reply to this comment)
by counsel
A dedicated picker, working hard to give other pickers good info to improve their methods. Thanks for a job well done.
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Apr 23 '01
1:10 pm PDT
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Yep (Reply to this comment)
by flamepillar
My Dad recently discovered this tuning for his guitar, and he plays it like that almost all the time now. I always thought of the DAADAD as a "power chord", and they rule. Especially if you play them as arpeggios on a piano, although I know that's gotta be tough to do.
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Apr 23 '01
9:06 am PDT
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