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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

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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