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Tunings:

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.
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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

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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

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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)

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Henry Mancini; PINK GUITAR

Moon River: CADGBE

 

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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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