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dtstewart64 - Posted - 02/12/2024: 08:49:44
Hi,
I have been playing a somewhat changed version of Rhiannon Giddens' Cluck Old Hen which is tuned this way, but I'm wondering what key it is in to be able to communicate that info to other musicians. For lack of a better way of saying it, at least to myself, I've called it "C Modal." Would that be accurate? It sounds, though, way lower than double C. Thanks very much.
Edited by - Bill Rogers on 02/12/2024 11:59:38
Jack Baker - Posted - 02/12/2024: 09:13:11
Rhianna,
Uses her outer space tunings often so no big deal to figure this out.....Jack p.s. it's just a C7th tuning is all....
Edited by - Jack Baker on 02/12/2024 09:14:32
janolov - Posted - 02/12/2024: 10:08:35
It is the equivalent tuning to gDGCD which we sometimes call Mountain Minor and sometimes (incorrectly) G modal (there are other tunings that can be called G modal too!). I would call it C Mountain Minor :)
kr - Posted - 02/12/2024: 10:11:41
The tuning makes a C sus4 chord .
Jack Baker - Posted - 02/12/2024: 10:13:14
Thanks Jan,
More accurate....J
Originally posted by janolov
It is the equivalent tuning to gDGCD which we sometimes call Mountain Minor and sometimes (incorrectly) G modal (there are other tunings that can be called G modal too!). I would call it C Mountain Minor :)
Old Hickory - Posted - 02/12/2024: 10:28:43
Can you really tune the 3rd string all the way to C and the 2nd all the way to F? Are you installing lighter strings for that?
Jack Baker - Posted - 02/12/2024: 10:49:14
Rhianna,
Tunes pretty low sometimes. TheChocolate drops tuned any way they saw fit for the tune.. ..J
Edited by - Jack Baker on 02/12/2024 10:53:01
Alex Z - Posted - 02/12/2024: 14:23:36
Yep. Tuning would be called mountain minor tuned down to C.
"Key" would be the tonal center of whatever tune was being played.
"Mode" would refer to the scale intervals of the notes being played if the scale began on the note of the key.
Old Hickory - Posted - 02/12/2024: 15:32:04
quote:
Originally posted by Jack Baker
Rhianna,
Tunes pretty low sometimes. TheChocolate drops tuned any way they saw fit for the tune.. ..J
Ah. Tuned down, not up.
Jerry Hatrick - Posted - 02/13/2024: 01:47:33
This tuning is also the equivalent of the DADGAD guitar tuning, often referred to as D modal, but actually a D with suspended fourth (note) chord, and yes, best known as a mountain minor amongst banjo pickers.
Ira Gitlin - Posted - 02/13/2024: 06:35:43
As Alex Z suggests above, a tuning is not the same as a key.
A given tuning can make it easier to play in certain keys, but in ANY tuning it is possible to play in any key.
