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Topic: Lone Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams Tuning |
Andy Schick
From: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 3 Oct 2017 6:02 pm
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What tuning and if possible, tab is there for the steel intro for Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank intro? Was this JB or DH? |
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Jeff Mead
From: London, England
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Posted 4 Oct 2017 12:09 am
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It was Don.
Can't help with TAB but the guitar is playing most of it and the steel is really just harmonising on the last three notes of each phrase.
G# B G# - A C# A - G# B G# - F# A F# - E G#
Don would have used his regular "E6" tuning but is just as easy in C6 or A6.
I use A6 and play it using the notes on strings 3&4 14th fret, 2&3 12th fret and 3&4 12th fret. If you're using C6 with an E on top, you'll find the notes on strings 1 2 and 3 (3 frets lower).
Actually, he does play a lead in note on a few of those phrases but the above will pretty much get you there.
Here's Don's tuning.
He calls it E6, although that A on the bottom actually makes it something else. He mostly only used the top 6 strings (which is E6). I think he saw it as two tunings on one neck - E6 on the top 6 strings and A major on the bottom 3. |
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Frank Welsh
From: Upstate New York, USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2017 4:35 am
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Andy, Jeff...If you play around with this "E6" tuning I just realized that strings 5 through 8 give you a real handy A major seventh chord and strings 4 through 8 give a full sounding A major ninth chord. Both of these chords can give you a nice, jazzy sounding ending to a tune or be used as a substitute chord during a tune.
I think Don Helms was on to something here. |
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