Thank's Babs
Amazing Grace in Minor key
Robin Clark
@robin-clark
11 years ago
239 posts
Robin Clark
@robin-clark
11 years ago
239 posts
Thanks Sharon and Dusty !
I really enjoyed sitting down yesterday evening with that short clip of Willie Nelson and seeing what I could come up with on that old Tignor dulcimer.
I still feel that I'm just scratching the surface of what's possible on an old dulcimer with a noter. The more I play these early dulcimer designs the more admiration and respect I gain for those traditional players and builders of these 'boxes of possibilities'
Dusty Turtle
@dusty
11 years ago
1,765 posts
Wow, Robin. That is a haunting version of the song. It's putting shivers up my spine. Your commandand ability to get nuanced sound out of the noter is just remarkable.
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Dusty T., Northern California
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Sharon Hall
@sharon-hall
11 years ago
3 posts
Robin Clark
@robin-clark
11 years ago
239 posts
Hi Sharon,
I found a short clip of the Willie Nelson version of Amazing Grace from Songbird on Amazon. He is singing it in Em and using accidentals. I've had a quick go at the tune and tried to capture the same sort of feel. I used E,B,A tuning on my old Tignor staple fretted dulcimer and a hardwood noter to capture the accidentals. As I'm playing noter drone I don't have the chord changes that are on the Nelson version but I've tried to get the same sort of lilt in the melody. I've added some pick up notes to each phrase so the sound is not quite so sparse.
Sharon Hall
@sharon-hall
11 years ago
3 posts
Dusty Turtle
@dusty
11 years ago
1,765 posts
I've heard Willie do a couple of versions, but I would say they were mostly in the traditional major key with a couple of minor chords thrown in. I think I don't know the version you are referring to.
Here is a minor version of the song by the Blind Boys of Alabama to the tune we usually associate with House of the Rising Son:
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Dusty T., Northern California
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As a musician, you have to keep one foot back in the past and one foot forward into the future.
-- Dizzy Gillespie
Sharon Hall
@sharon-hall
11 years ago
3 posts
updated by @sharon-hall: 08/02/23 03:33:26AM