help.
I've got a tab of Santo & Johnny's Sleepwalk, which was tabbed from the original - played on a lap steel. The tuning is G#, C, D#, G#, C, D#.
Is it safe to tune a normal guitar to this? The top and bottom strings are both raised by 4 semitones and the 5th by 3.
I'm worried that it'll rip the bridge off an acoustic.
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Try tuning it lower by two halftones or more and using a capo. More likely you'll break strings then tear the bridge off.
"A wailing song and a good guitar are the only things that I understand, poor boy."
Thanks, hog, that idea didn't even penetrate my stupid skull
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I'd tune it down to E A B E A B, leave the capo off, and play everything four strings higher than tabbed....use a capo and it's going to buzz like hell, as four of your strings are tuned much lower than normal....
Don't know where you got that tuning from, but this is one you can do fairly easily in standard tuning....although I learned it in open G....
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
I'd appreciate a tab, if you have one Vic.
Both Powertab and Mysongbook have the same tuning - which is where it came from.
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The tuning seems to be the "dobro" or high-bass G tuning - GBDGBD - only one halfstep higher.
I've never played "Sleepwalk" but I can't imagine there's any action on the lower two strings, so you will probably do fine with using the low-bass bottleneck tuning - DGDGBD. No stress for your guitar....
Steinar
