In Open D. Probably not original tuning but it seemed to work OK. Tabbed it out for a fellow forumite, email or PM me if you'd like the tab. Please specifiy of you want .pdf or Guitar Pro format.

Also been working on Jorma's "Seasweed Strut" - a killer instrumental in DADDAD. 90% there. I didn't know Jorma ever used this tuning until I tried to figure this one out. Great tune! Don't have tab for this one : ) .

David

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I got a kick out of your post.

Here is an excerpt from my 2003 Fur Peace Ranch Diaries that can be found on the "Photo's and More" link on the Fur Peace Ranch website.


http://www.howardbeaver.com/paulkarp_fpr2003/part05.html


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By 10:30, Marjorie had shown up and Jorma said it was time to go into a tuning from which there was no return. This was the DADDAD tuning Jorma employed to write "Seeweed Strut." I had never used this particular tuning before. I liked the drone nature of it. It kind of had an Eastern/Raga quality to it. Jorma showed us around the tuning and was trying to as he said, "Give us the tools we needed to figure out 'Seeweed Strut,' " Jorma didn't have the Rhythm quite right, but I could hear parts of the tune in my head as we were now in the proper tuning. In just sitting around in this tuning for 30-45 minutes, I was able to figure out a good number of the licks that make up the song. I figured I will have to keep one of my other guitars at home in this tuning while I am working on the song. There is no way I will keep retuning Miss Collings for this one. Too much of a pain in the rear. >>

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There is no way I will keep retuning Miss Collings for this one. Too much of a pain in the rear. >>

Au contraire, D2H! It's just one string away from Open D. Next time you're in Open D, take a short trip to DADDAD (drop G sting to a D) where you can play "Seaweed Strut," "4 + 20," and the Doob's "Clear As The Driven Snow" : )

Cool story - Thanks, D2H!

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Au contraire, D2H! It's just one string away from Open D. Next time you're in Open D, take a short trip to DADDAD (drop G sting to a D) where you can play "Seaweed Strut," "4 + 20," and the Doob's "Clear As The Driven Snow" : )

Cool story - Thanks, D2H!

You are correct dberch. I do play 4 & 20 as well as Police Dog Blues in Open D, so I will revisit Seaweed Strut as well.

If you liked the stories, here are the links for the full diaries for 2003 and 2004. I am presently writing the 2005 version.

there are a ton of GREAT pictures in both the 2003 and 2004 diaries as well....

http://www.howardbeaver.com/paulkarp_fpr2003/index.html


http://www.howardbeaver.com/paulkarp_fpr2004/index.html

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If you liked the stories, here are the links for the full diaries for 2003 and 2004.

Cool. Great reading, D2h, thanks for taking the time to document that! I've been there three times myself ('99, '01, and '04). Awesome experience.

By the way, I figured out Jorma's "Lord Have Mercy" from the Quah re-release. Great tune.

Cool. Great reading, D2h, thanks for taking the time to document that! I've been there three times myself ('99, '01, and '04). Awesome experience.

By the way, I figured out Jorma's "Lord Have Mercy" from the Quah re-release. Great tune.

So many songs, so little time...
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dberch. "Lord have mercy" is a great tune. Check it out though. It is an instrumental version of the song "Letter to the north Star" from Hot tuna's Phosperecent Rat Album.

glad you liked the diaries! There is no place on earth that is as cool as the Fur Peace Ranch!

Happy Holidays...

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It is an instrumental version of the song "Letter to the north Star" from Hot tuna's Phosperecent Rat Album.

Yep, I knew as soon as I heard it on the Quah re-release that I'd heard it before. Took me a while but I tracked it down. PhosRat is one of my favorite Hot Tuan albums. Have you worked up "Sally"? I have but it's high maint. It's one of those songs that goes away pretty quick if you don't play it every week.

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I do play "Sally." The interesting thing is that I was taught how to play sally by Ian Buchanan in Queens NY in 1979 when I took a couple of guitar lessons from him. Ian is the guy who taught Jorma how to play fingerstyle guitar while they were both at Antioch college in Ohio.

Wow. That is awesome. I learnd Sally from Jorma. He's changed it around a bit, but I play it like it was recorded on PhsRat. What else did you learn from Ian?

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I only worked on two songs with Ian. Was only 19 at the time and had been playing for 3 years at that point. We did "Sally" and a song called "Careless Love." The careless love tune had some of the licks that Jorma uses in his version of "Trouble in mind." When I first met Jorma in 1998, he told me that he had no recordings of Ian playing. I took my shitty cassette tape that I still had from my lessons and made a copy for Jorma which he said transported him back. Later on I met a guy at the Ranch named Ed who took many lessons from Ian and had the lessons on higher quality tape than I did. He bruned them to CD and I am happy to have them in my collection. Ed of course gave Jorma copies as well.

Ian's version of Sally was very similar to Jorma's. Some of the chord voicings were different when I saw Jorma play it and teach it to our class at the FPR.

How many times have you been to the FPR?

I've been to FPR three times. In Jorma's class twice and Chris Smither's once. I have a couple dozen Jorma/Tuna/Davis songs in my repitoire, but no Smither. Love Chris's music but I find it really difficult to master. "Can't Shake These Blues" is a good example. Great tune! Wondrful lyrics, killer guitar arrangement, but I just can't get it up to snuff.

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