A note about the tunings:
Tunings listed here are accurate, but remember that they are relative and may not be at concert pitch. For example, I usually tune my six string guitar down one half step (E=E flat, etc.) but still refer to the tunings as if they were at concert pitch. Capo positions vary, so use your ears.
THERE AND GONE
HOUSE OF GUITARS
- 1. Promised Land: DADGBE
- 2: Poor Wayfaring Stranger: DADF#AD
- 3. Try to Stay: DADF#AD
- 4. Because of you, This: EADGBE
- 5. I Will: DADGBE
- 6. Shallow Brown: DADF#AD
- 7. Farther Along: DADGBE
- 8. I Just Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes: DADF#AD
- 9: Let It Be Me: EADGBE
- 10: Junk: EADGBE
- 11: Promised Land (reprise): DADGBE
SUNNYLAND
- 1. Avalon Train: DADGBE
- 2. 5 to 99: DGDGBD
- 3. Either Way She Walks: DADF#AD (six string and Weissenborn)
- 4. Sunnyland: DADF#AD
- 5. Just a Closer Walk With Thee: DADF#AD
- 6. Sunday Blues: DGDGBD
- 7: I Just Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes: DADF#AD
- 8. Amazing Grace: DADF#AD (lap steel), DADGBE (six string)
- 9. Night Owl Blues: DGDGBD
- 10. Still Not Sorry You’re Gone: EADGBE
- 11. Sunnyland (reprise): DADF#AD
- 12. Little Road: DGDGBD
- 13. Sunday Street Stroll: DADGBE
- 14. Not Blind In Heaven: DADF#AD
ON A COLD WINTER’S NIGHT
- 1. Joy To the World: DADGBE
- 2. Away in a Manger: DADF#AD
- 3. The First Noel: DADGBE
- 4. In the Bleak Midwinter: DADGBE
- 5. I Saw Three Ships: DADF#AD
- 6. Angels We Have Heard on High: EADGBE
- 7. The Holly and the Ivy: DADF#AD
- 8. O, Holy Night: DADGBE
- 9. Little Drummer Boy: EADGBE
- 10. Christmas Medley: EADGBE
- 11. All Through the Night: DADGBE
- 12. White Christmas: EADGBE (six string), EBEG#BE (Weissenborn)
Henry Mancini; PINK GUITAR
- Moon River: CADGBE
THE LIVE ALBUM
Onstage I’m not always relying on my electronic tuner- sometimes they slow me down, other times I just don’t care. These should get you pretty close. Please note that on the 12 string pieces “Malaika” and “Isa Lei” the guitar is in drop D but pitched at B or thereabout. On “Shallow Brown” and “Homage” I’m using a Weissenborn style guitar which is played lap style. You can get most of the stuff if you play slide in a conventional manner with a little practice. Thanks for your interest and good luck!
- 1. Tennessee: DADGAD (Down 1/2 step, capo 2)
- 2. Malaika: DADGBE (D=B)
- 3. Great Dream From Heaven: DADGBE (Down 1/2 step, capo 2)
- 4. Shallow Brown: DADF#AD ( D=B)
- 5. Duet: DGDGBD (down 1/2 step)
- 6. Isa Lei: DADGBE (D=B)
- 7. Homage: DADF# AD (D=B)
- 8. Si Bhig, Si Mhor: DADGBD (down 1/2 step, capo 5)
- 9. Slide Improv: DADF# AD
- 10. The Handing Down: EADEAE
- 11. Malaika: DADGBE
- 12. The Water Is Wide: DADGBE capo 3
COUNTING THE WAYS
- 1. Willy O’Winsbury:
- FIRST GUITAR: DADF#AD, Capo 5 SECOND GUITAR: CGDGBD
- HIGH STRING GUITAR: DADGBE, Capo 5
- 2. If I Fell/In My Life: BOTH GUITARS: DADGBE, Capo?
- 3. Malaika: STANDARD TUNING, Capo 4
- 4.Isa Lei
- FIRST GUITAR: DADF#AD
- HIGH STRUNG GUITAR: STANDARD TUNING, Capo 5
- BROZMAN’S WEISSENBORN HAWAIIAN GUITAR:
- CGCGCE (actually up a half step to C#)
- ED’S HAWAIIAN GUITAR: DADF#AD
- 5. Maria Elena:
- ALL GUITARS: DADGBE (down a whole step- D=C)
- 6. Wild Mountain Thyme:
- DGDGBD (down a whole step to F)
- 7. Spanish Harlem:
- FIRST AND SECOND GUITARS: DGDGBD (down a whole step to F)
- 8. My Creole Belle:
- BOTH GUITARS: STANDARD TUNING, CONCERT PITCH, Capo 2
- 9. Can’t Help Falling in Love:
- MAIN GUITARS STANDARD TUNING, Capo 4
- HAWAIIAN GUITAR: DADF#AD (up a half step to E flat)
- 10. The Water is Wide: DADGBE, Capo 3
NIGHT BIRDS
- 1. DUET — D G D G B D
- 2. CROW — E A D G A E
- 3. NO.11 — F A C G C E
- 4. SPIKE #2 — D G D G B D
- 5. LOST HIGHWAY — E A C# E A E
- 6. SI BHIG, SI MHOR — D A D G B D
- 7. NO.7. — E A E E B E
- 8. THE FRENCH LADY — E G D G C D
- 9. SUITE (I-IV) — E A D E A E
- 10. NIGHT BIRDS — D G D G B D
CHRISTMAS
* Denotes standard tuning. Most pieces on CHRISTMAS have multiple guitars, so the tuning given is for the primary guitars. Capo positions vary- experiment !
- 1. IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR *
- 2. GOOD KING WENCESLAS — D G D G B D
- 3. O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL *
- 4. COVENTRY CAROL *
- 5. O TANNENBAUM — D A D G B E
- 6. WHAT CHILD IS THIS? *
- 7. SILVER BELLS *
- 8. AWAY IN A MANGER — D G D G B D
- 9. WE THREE KINGS *
- 10. CAROL OF THE BELLS *
- 11. O HOLY NIGHT– D A D G B E
- 12. A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD — D A D G B E
- 13.VARIATIONS ON PACHELBELS’ CANON
- 14. SILENT NIGHT — D A D G B E
LUNA
- 1. TENNESSEE — D A D G A D
- 2. RED MOUNTAIN SERENADE — D A D G B E
- 3. POSTCARD FROM LIMBO — D A D G B E
- 4. FOG TRILOGY — C G D G A D
- 5. BLUE HIGHWAY — B A D E A D
- 6. LUNA — C G C Eb B C
- 7. HORSES IN THE RAIN — B G C F G C
- 8. GEARHAT — C G D G A D
- 9. THE HANDING DOWN — E A D E A E
- 10. HOWL — D A D F# A D
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