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    Default how does this guy play this?

    I'm a rank amateur and I'm curious if the guy playing mandolin on this track of Mississippi Kid has his mandolin tuned differently than the standard tuning? I'd like to learn to play this track, and can't get mine to sound much like this, let alone figure out the tab.
    Thanks very much for any help.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njv6VLyA9_8

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    Default Re: how does this guy play this?

    Surely not tuned as a regular mando..might be tuned in a lower octave to match the guitar.
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    Default Re: how does this guy play this?

    dunno for sure

    but i clipped this for you
    off hand
    his tuning sounds like the g is lowered to E -has a fuller sound
    and ill bet its fits with skynard and the guitar riffs
    thats my best off the cuff guess


    "One way is to spell out a 4 note chord
    and see which notes can be reached by
    lowering GDAE

    Some open tunings (Low to High ie. GDAE):
    DDAD
    AAEC#
    FCGD
    GDGB
    GDGD
    GDAD
    ADAE
    EDAE
    These involve tuning higher which I
    wouldn't attempt with regular strings:
    GDBB
    EEBE
    BEBE
    AE#AC#
    AEAE
    AEAC
    AEAD
    EEAE



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    Re: Alternate Mandolin Tunings



    The basic options:

    GDAD is probably the most common, used by Irish bouzouki players and some mandolinists (Andy Irvine)

    ADAE (raises the low string rather than the high pair)

    GDGD or AEAE - open 5ths

    while fiddlers will call alternate tunings "crosstunings", on the the mandolin "crosstunings" usually is used for tuning in which certain of the pairs are tuned to different notes. The most common (or maybe famous) of which is the "Sleepy-Eyed John" ("Get Up John") tuning: F#A - DD - AA - AD

    - - - - - -
    And, any tuning relationship can be dropped down (or raised a half-stop or two) a half-step, whole tone, or lower.

    GDAE dropped down to (Yank Rachell's) EBC#F#

    GDAE dropped a whole step to FCGD (Mike Doucet usually has one of his fiddles tuned this way for a darker sound and to play all those open drone strings with a C-tuned accordion)

    or GDAD lowered to FCGC (Andy Irvine)

    , but see :

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    Default Re: how does this guy play this?

    Sweet. Thanks very much for your replies. All helpful. I'll give some different tunings a crack.
    Cheers

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    Default Re: how does this guy play this?

    fwiw i did try e-a-d-e ( i am loathe to re-tune the mando-its a real pita)

    and in the key of E sounds pretty cool, and has a similar feel to the lynard tune i think

    let us know if you find something really cool sounding-and ....I'll.......

    re-tune LOL!

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