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Alan Sleeper - Posted - 08/03/2025: 06:38:54
I’m looking for more tunes in f#DF#AD tuning. I have Peachbottom Creek (Wade Ward) and The Last Cold Whiskey (Paul Brown). I would like more, especially some that fiddlers would know. Thanks!
Emiel - Posted - 08/03/2025: 09:36:41
Also "Swanno Mountain" (Roscoe Holcomb). I don't know if fiddlers would know that one…
banjered - Posted - 08/03/2025: 09:56:34
From a singing point of view: Most folk songs use notes below the key of the song. For instance, Red River Valley in the key of G starts on the 4th string, D. Row Row Your Boat starts and ends with the third string, G. and never goes below that open G note. Using the f#DF#AD is handy for matching vocal ranges with the banjo for songs that do not go below the key of the song which is the 4th string which is "D" with this tuning.
Example: to play Wildwood Flower in standard G tuning, the highest note you need is at the 9th fret on the first string but when you use f#DF#AD tuning the highest note you need is at the 4th fret of the first string which is helpful for a singer not able to sing that high 9th fret note. You could get the same vocal accommodations with the banjo tuned in double D tuning. Is this clearer than mud? banjered
Bill Rogers - Posted - 08/03/2025: 11:31:52
Eighth of January sets well there. That’s where I play it. Otto Wood is another.
janolov - Posted - 08/03/2025: 12:42:17
Some of the double D tunes work out good in open D. I have just been fooling around with Arkansaw Traveler.
Earl Scruggs played John Henry in open D, and I think open D will work for a clawhammer version.
JanetB - Posted - 08/09/2025: 15:23:05
Stephen by Tony Ellis (he wrote it for Stephen Wade). Worried Mary by Old Crow Medicine Show. Goodbye Honey, You Call That Gone by Lucius Smith (as played by Jake Blount). Those are ones for which I have tabs.
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