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04 Dec 03 - 02:31 PM (#1065603) Subject: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST Any body know what guitar tuning she uses and do you have any chords to her songs? |
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04 Dec 03 - 03:16 PM (#1065637) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: michaelr Mostly Drop-D, I think. |
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04 Dec 03 - 03:52 PM (#1065668) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Geoff the Duck Barnsley Tuning - Ay-Up... ;-) Quack! GtD. |
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04 Dec 03 - 07:36 PM (#1065733) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: breezy When you sing like her does, any old song sounds too good to be that good. Makes you sick. a true talent. |
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05 Dec 03 - 04:19 AM (#1065902) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,G String Definitely G-string dropped - have I read the question right ? |
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05 Dec 03 - 04:35 AM (#1065913) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Hamish Hmmm... when she performs live she doesn't fiddle about with different tunings: she just uses the same one throughout. I reckon it's drop-D. But Breezy's right - it's the voice that's the bizzo. Her guitar isn't that crucial. But with Andy Cutting and hubby John McCusker as the band the overall sound is awesome. Any clever guitar on her CD's is usually supplied by someone else - Ian Carr in the main. And other fretted instrumentation is likely cittern from John. |
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05 Dec 03 - 05:35 AM (#1065936) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: mooman I'm not a big fan of her music (because of the voice and delivery which most other people however like) but know that Kate generally uses double dropped-D tuning, i.e. (D A D G B D). I do think, however, that she has done wonders inturning on a new generation to folk and admire her both for that and her genuineness and sticking to what she believes in. Peace moo |
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05 Dec 03 - 07:09 AM (#1065967) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: black walnut Yes. I started playing a lot of songs in DADGBD after finding out that Kate plays in that tuning. It's a D tuning, but I believe she plays a lot of songs in G in that tuning, which is what I've been doing, and it's really nice. I also like that it is so easy to go in and out of DADGAD from double drop D. Not rocket science, but for someone whose main instrument is not guitar, it's expanded my repertoire quite a sum. ~b.w. |
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05 Dec 03 - 08:10 AM (#1065987) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,Sooz (at work) The songs and chords are in her Songbook - she has taken the trouble to share them so why not buy a copy? |
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15 Mar 07 - 04:31 PM (#1997865) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,Daff Hi Guys, I got the songbook today. KR states she uses double dropped D tunings for 'most' of the songs she plays. Well, I had a bash and it's more difficult than I thought - I just can't seem to recreate the sound... I shall, or course, keep trying. |
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15 Mar 07 - 05:02 PM (#1997890) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST I wonder why you're finding hard? Dropping both E strings to D gives a lovely sound, and it's the Kate Rusby one.. Tune your guitar properly (dropping the D's of course), fret strings 6 and 5 at the 5th fret, and strum. Is that not a Kate Rusby chord? |
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15 Mar 07 - 08:23 PM (#1998028) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Big Al Whittle Not too long ago, i was there in a folk club . And someone started doing The Unquiet Grave with that awful lisping affected insipid diction that means invariably they've been inspired by the great white hope of the folk tradition, the Mike Harding Show, and probably The Living Tradition. You just felt like saying - oh jump in the sodding grave - I'll fill it in - and take the backing group with you. There were almost tears in my eyes when I remember how Ian Campbell used to deliver that song to the late John Dunkerly's plaintive banjo - talk about the day the music died. The trouble with the people entrusted with this Living Tradition, and shouting about it is that basically they're all arseholes. |
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16 Mar 07 - 05:30 AM (#1998273) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,Shimrod WLD - you never said a truer word! |
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16 Mar 07 - 06:25 AM (#1998309) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Strollin' Johnny Come on WLD, don't beat about the bush! :-) :-) |
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16 Mar 07 - 12:05 PM (#1998688) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,Phillip Malcolm Ddouglas Hello, anybody please post the chords for the song Jolly Ploughboys? Thanks, PMD |
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19 Jun 07 - 06:59 AM (#2080871) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,Guest Anything sounds great when she plays it. And just a minor point, John McCusker is no longer her husband, their separated she now goes out with Brian Finnigan. I've seen them together and you wouldn't be like that with a friend. |
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19 Jun 07 - 11:46 AM (#2081147) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: The Sandman double drop d has ben around a lot longer than K Rusby. noew the really skilful guitarist is the one that can make standard tuning ,sound like modal tunings,it can be done,in E AND A. |
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19 Jun 07 - 08:04 PM (#2081613) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Gulliver Excuse my ignorance, but what is "Living Tradition"? A band? |
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20 Jun 07 - 04:18 AM (#2081886) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: The Sandman living tradition is a magazine. |
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20 Jun 07 - 03:43 PM (#2082480) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Commander Crabbe PMD If you want to PM me with a fax number or e-mail I'll send you what I use. CC |
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20 Jun 07 - 03:59 PM (#2082494) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Gulliver The trouble with the people entrusted with this Living Tradition, and shouting about it is that basically they're all arseholes. I don't understand--how can a magazine do this? |
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23 Jun 07 - 09:45 AM (#2084817) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GerryMc Kate Rusby does indeed use double drop D as do many other players. I use it a lot, t'is a good tuning. There are many other tunings out there, experiment dear people. You might just surprise yerselves :-) Gerry :-) |
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23 Jun 07 - 11:53 AM (#2084874) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: The Sandman Gulliver,Living Tradition is a magazine,but on reflection WLD is on about something else. |
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30 Apr 09 - 10:04 PM (#2622333) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,Black Walnut you are the king thanks so much - that DADGBD tuning is awesome |
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01 May 09 - 07:49 AM (#2622502) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: VirginiaTam Always grateful to Kate for being one of the artists that led me into the realm of traditional music. My daughter and I would compete with each other re finding and sharing music. I came home from work one day excited both because Andie was coming home from uni and because I had heard Rusby's Courted a Sailor on WNRN radio in Charlottesville, VA. I just couldn't wait to tell her about it. But what do you think was playing when walked into the house. Andie's new Kate Rusby CD and that song. Pipped at the post again. And as Andie was a collector (she liked finding and hearing as many versions of songs as she could) she did not like Rusby's Unquiet Grave either. I saw Kate in concert at the Rochester (Kent) Sweeps a few years back. I was not disappointed. But I don't buy her CDs any more because I have moved on to ????? (I don't want to say more authentic, because it dismisses Rusby's) music. But maybe that is just what I mean. Still as said above, it was the likes of her got me interested in the first place and made me and my daughter seek out older recordings of the songs she does. And that, I think, is a great service to the tradition in itself. |
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01 May 09 - 08:56 AM (#2622538) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: The Sandman yes, one that was suggested on this forum,that I am working on is dgdgae. I find double drop d handy for d, g and a,and even c,when there is no sub dominant chord, example, Andys Gone with Cattle. I still like standard and drop d,to provide variety. |
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01 May 09 - 09:34 AM (#2622559) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Kate Rusby has a very attractive voice and a naturalness to her that is most charming. She doensn't captivate me in anyway near the way that I've come to find that some folk singers do, but that's purely a personal aesthetic. For as a listener I tend to prefer more strong and potent female vocalists. VTams reference to Rusby's arrangement of The Unquiet Grave is interesting though, as I have a version of Rusby singing this in a more 'medieaval' style, which is meltingly and moveingly lovely - without the sugar, and IMO far superior to the arrangement presumably composed for a more 'pop' audience. And it's her rendering of *this* version of unquiet grave (also to be found here by Gryphon ) which I now sing myself. Though I haven't heard it anywhere other than the beautiful live recording that a felllow Mudcatter kindly passed on to me. In light of this, and without wanting to cause a storm, I suspect Kate is perhaps somewhat 'better' than some of the material she puts out... |
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01 May 09 - 09:58 AM (#2622573) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Blast it! 'Mediaeval' Unquiet Grave melody as performed by Gryphon here! |
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01 May 09 - 10:24 AM (#2622601) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: VirginiaTam I think I have a Dave and Toni Arthur version on audio cassette, which I liked better than the Rusby version. Now I am remembering Andie correctly. She said she heard another Unquiet Grave by Rusby that she loved that was nothing like the one on her CD. I think she must have heard it on a live radio interview. |
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17 Sep 18 - 03:04 PM (#3951203) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,mauibob Watching her play in videos, she seems to often (with the alt tuning) capo at a high fret. |
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16 Dec 21 - 04:52 PM (#4129111) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: GUEST,BT Hello--i don't think its dropped D--something similar though--time to experiment with various versions of a D tuning--lets figure this out |
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16 Dec 21 - 05:18 PM (#4129119) Subject: RE: kate rusby tunings From: Backwoodsman It's Double-Drop-D. DADGBD. |