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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: Tennessee Waltz in C


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Twelvefret - Posted - 01/07/2009:  05:30:04

C is not easy for me for some reason. My guitar player, Sam, said that C was the key he had always played this waltz in so I am trying to learn TW in C. Here is a first attempt bad intonation and all.

http://www.hangoutstorage.com/fiddl...46712009.mp3

chuck

Fiddling Bill - Posted - 01/07/2009:  14:36:13

If you don't like key of C then move it up to key of D. Your guitar player can capo on the second fret and play it out of C position.
Hopefully, D will work better for you.

Fiddling Bill

OTJunky - Posted - 01/07/2009:  15:28:12

Clark Kessinger recorded in C. So a lot of people think it ought to be played in C.

But I've heard it played in both G and A - and, of course, it still sounds fine. I think there's a good recording of it in A in the "juke box".

I don't think I've ever heard it played in D but there's no reason you couldn't can't do that if you want to...

--OTJ
"I can barely fiddle on four strings. Why would I want five?"

Twelvefret - Posted - 01/07/2009:  16:02:07

I think it sounds better in C, Paul, since it starts out on that low C.

I had played it in D before, FB

Thanks FB and Paul.

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