DVD-quality lessons (including tabs/sheet music) available for immediate viewing on any device.
Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online banjo teacher.
Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and more.
Good day everyone,
I am looking into figuring out False Hearted Lover's Blues the way Dock Boggs played it. According to some sources I found (see here and here), the tuning Boggs used was the very unusual (for me, anyway) c#GDEA.
Does anyone have any advice on how to tune my banjo to this tuning? Let's take the fifth string for example. I assume Boggs just tuned it down to C. That would perhaps be a bit too loose, but I wouldn't assume Boggs used a fifth string capo? Next, should I be able to tune up the fourth string without problem? Etc, etc. You get the idea.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)
In this instruction video Clifton Hicks says the tuning is f#DGAD (which is all strings seven frets lower, or five frets higher) than the tuning you presented) which is a kind of D modal.. However, the 1927 recording seems to be in A modal, so I think he have tuned down.
Edited by - janolov on 01/18/2025 03:45:42
quote:
Originally posted by mmuussiiccaallI put a tab for False Hearted here
https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=27766
Excellent, thank you!