Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
Hey y'all, I haven't been on the forum for a few years & I think there was a thread on this before ."Get Up John" on Bluegrass Rules...it sounds like the individual courses on Ricky's mando are tuned maybe a 5th apart ie; g/d d/a a/e e/b. I don't know if this would even be enharmonic. I have an instructional vid. by Frank Wakefield & there might be altered tunings on that..If any of you know the tuning, will you please pass it along?
Thanks, Brian
Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
hey brian, it is in a cross tuning. F#/A-- D/D ---A/A--- A/E---hope that helps. good luck!
Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
thats low to high, (down a half step from G to F#.... then, up a whole step to A)....D and A courses stay the same, and you drop one E course all the way down to a unison A....and keep the other the same. good luck.
Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
For the record, Ricky is using the same tuning as the Man (Mon) he's paying tribute to. That tuning has been used by a few others, notably Doyle Lawson on the BG Album Band's version of "Stoney Lonesome" (also in A, of course).
Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
I do believe the E course is tuned A/D, not A/E....the essential melody line requires it.
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Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
True.Originally Posted by Mike Bromley
Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
Yes, 'tis AD. I wish I had two spare mandolins to keep them tuned for "Get Up John" and the Watson/McCoury version of "Black Mountain Rag." I'd love to do these tunes at jams, but with only one mandolin tuning and re-tuning is a pain.
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Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
youre right mike, my bad...
Re: Ricky Skaggs tuning on "Get Up John"
...Correction here -nick a,...the E strings are tuned down to A and "D", and I ask what is wrong with a double "D" ? ...although, I don't see what is such a fascination with GUJ, since there are about 1000 other tunes an aspiring mandolinist should learn and perfect BEFORE he tries GUJ !
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