'Hard Time Killin' Floors'???

Subject: 'Hard Time Killin' Floors'???
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Jul 10 - 10:49 PM

Anyone doin' this song???

I've done it privately a couple times in Double Dropped D tuning, which works, but kinda wonderin' how anyone else is playin' it???

B~

Subject: RE: 'Hard Time Killin' Floors'???
From: Mavis Enderby
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 10:48 AM

It's on my "to learn" list!

I have a friend who plays it very nicely in D minor tuning (DADFAD).

Pete.

Subject: RE: 'Hard Time Killin' Floors'???
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 12:38 PM

Purdy close to my Double Dropped D (DADGBD)... Nice song to have around for those special audiences who appreciate listening to what yer playin'...

B~

Subject: RE: 'Hard Time Killin' Floors'???
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 12:54 PM

It's a great song - a blues in a minor key. I am fairly sure Skip James did it in a D-minor tuning - possibly DADFAD. If you still have a copy of my "Travellers' Tales", that is the tuning I use on "As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me" - although I don't manage to make it sound much like Skip James! The main problem with that tuning is that the only chord which it makes any sense to play is the actual open one. I get round the problem by playing a constant melody over an alternating bass. Skip James was a bit smarter than that and was able to do all sorts of clever things... Damned annoying these folks with talent!

Subject: RE: 'Hard Time Killin' Floors'???
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:46 PM

I sure do, Alan... Will have to revisit that CD...