Joel thank you so much, I don't know if you'll ever see this comment but this is the most fun and beautiful tuning I have found for my new tenor guitar. Thank you!
So cool! I had the privilege of meeting Joel last week at a local music store...I was there picking up my new to me 1936 Kalamazoo Arch top tenor .... it was a lot of fun hearing him play and taking the time to show me his different tunings. I have not put it down since. So much fun to play and explore the different tunings. No lies but it was this clip that got me interested in trying the tenor. A hard instrument to find...but I did and no regrets.
CBC Music Everything I could imagine. It is not as graceful as Joel's but certainly softens the hart when Missing home on the East Coast. It is just hard to find some good tutorials for this guitar. I will tell ya, I would love to get my hands on the tabs for "happen now" on tenor guitar. I heard him perform this tune with the Nova Scotia Symphony in 2006 and it is one of my favourite Plaskett tunes on the tenor.
I just bought a tenor guitar. Thanks for this. I know the mandolin shapes, but the finger stretches are hard. I play open tunings on guitar. So I’m giving CGCG a try.
I’m mainly playing an open back Banjo . So Ive done the same with my Tenor CGCG. Fingerings are similar to a double C or capo up 2 and you have a D (ish) tuning for more compatible fiddle tunes. Anyway you go Tenor guitars are great fun, especially when my wife gets to overloaded with Banjo!
Life is good in open tunings. I've been running my 3/4 guitar in open D for awhile (DADF#AD) and you can play any tune. After awhile you develop a memory for where various notes are on the fretboard.
Hello Joel. I know this video was a few years back. Could you please tell me the string gauge sizes on what you use on your tenor guitar? I acquired a Gibson TG 25 N that has circled around in the family to me. Thank you. Best regards, Steve.
Good stuff.... I'm lazy, too, ( :) ) so was wondering if you ever wrote down the requisite finger positioning down for these "new" chords in open C, and if you did, are they available...? (Have Martin and Harmony tenors myself, plus assorted Baritone/Tenor/Soprano Ukes)
But don't you find tuning in doubles like that turns the instrument into something of a one trick pony. It's kind of like using duct tape on a harmonica to learn how to play clean notes. If you keep going down that path you may find yourself becoming a "performance artist" who goes up on stage and stands in front of a mic for 30 minutes before announcing to the crowd that you've finished your set, then packing up to go home.
You opened up a whole new world for me! Thank you sooo much for sharing!!!
Joel thank you so much, I don't know if you'll ever see this comment but this is the most fun and beautiful tuning I have found for my new tenor guitar. Thank you!
So cool! I had the privilege of meeting Joel last week at a local music store...I was there picking up my new to me 1936 Kalamazoo Arch top tenor .... it was a lot of fun hearing him play and taking the time to show me his different tunings. I have not put it down since. So much fun to play and explore the different tunings. No lies but it was this clip that got me interested in trying the tenor. A hard instrument to find...but I did and no regrets.
I have been a long loyal fan of Joel's and after searching for 10 years I finally purchased a tenor guitar. I am so happy CBC put this video up.
Very cool! How do you like the tenor guitar?
CBC Music Everything I could imagine. It is not as graceful as Joel's but certainly softens the hart when Missing home on the East Coast. It is just hard to find some good tutorials for this guitar. I will tell ya, I would love to get my hands on the tabs for "happen now" on tenor guitar. I heard him perform this tune with the Nova Scotia Symphony in 2006 and it is one of my favourite Plaskett tunes on the tenor.
I tune to DGDG. All the notes in the Gmaj scale are on the same frets. Everything you play sounds great!
I just bought a tenor guitar. Thanks for this. I know the mandolin shapes, but the finger stretches are hard. I play open tunings on guitar. So I’m giving CGCG a try.
I’m mainly playing an open back Banjo . So Ive done the same with my Tenor CGCG. Fingerings are similar to a double C or capo up 2 and you have a D (ish) tuning for more compatible fiddle tunes. Anyway you go Tenor guitars are great fun, especially when my wife gets to overloaded with Banjo!
That is just super slick, love the sound of it & can't believe it could be that easy
Very helpful!! Thank You so much! Subbed and Liked! Keep making great music!
Life is good in open tunings. I've been running my 3/4 guitar in open D for awhile (DADF#AD) and you can play any tune. After awhile you develop a memory for where various notes are on the fretboard.
That Gibson is beautiful.
nice thank you
Hello Joel. I know this video was a few years back. Could you please tell me the string gauge sizes on what you use on your tenor guitar? I acquired a Gibson TG 25 N that has circled around in the family to me. Thank you. Best regards, Steve.
I'm interested in putting my mandolin in an open GDGD cross tuning. Any idea where I can find a chord chart for this tuning?
As a bass player I am thinking tuning a tenor guitar GDAE, then I would know where the notes are.
So, what would you recommend, tuning wise, for a mandocello?
amazing😀
Good stuff.... I'm lazy, too, ( :) ) so was wondering if you ever wrote down the requisite finger positioning down for these "new" chords in open C, and if you did, are they available...? (Have Martin and Harmony tenors myself, plus assorted Baritone/Tenor/Soprano Ukes)
Octave Mandolin as a dulcimer
CGC????What are you saying.
pat welch CGCG
C? G? C? .... G?
But don't you find tuning in doubles like that turns the instrument into something of a one trick pony. It's kind of like using duct tape on a harmonica to learn how to play clean notes. If you keep going down that path you may find yourself becoming a "performance artist" who goes up on stage and stands in front of a mic for 30 minutes before announcing to the crowd that you've finished your set, then packing up to go home.
Um.... have you ever seen Joel perform?? He's in no danger of turning into a one trick pony.
Utter nonsense!