How To Play "Down In The Valley To Pray"

[abaclast1000]

i really enjoyed your tutorial but every chord i played didnt sound right so im not to sure ive tuned it right but really good lesson :)

[classicvinylbiz]

Johnny Cash: Down in the Valley

watch?v=GJorUGP3TOM

thanks and regards

[4u250ut]

you have a voice for Narrator ..contact car company I bet they would love to have your voice in the comercail.

[thallassocracy]

Good to hear someone using an open tuning to foreground the lower guitar strings this way. A guitar will give a magically rich but open sound with the right kind of usage. Doc Watson, Gary Davis and Furry Lewis all knew this - obviously you do too.

[tobyisatramp]

i dont get the diagram? one chord is not even on the fret board it on the head where the 0 fret would be. why?

[HenfieldWill]

When the red circles are on the guitar nut - this means that you play those strings as open, unfretted strings. :-)

[xvirg]

Doc Watson sings it Down in the Valley to Pray, so it don't really matter so long as you go somewhere to pray, eh?

[HenfieldWill]

Indeed he does - and it's Doc's version that I based my arrangement on! :-)

[Barefootlarry]

"Doc Watson sings it Down in the Valley to Pray, so it don't really matter so long as you go somewhere to pray, eh? " The song IS "Down In The Valley To Pray", which makes a lot more sense than wading out into a river. The lyric was changed for use in the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou".

They aren't two separate songs, just one song adapted to a movie or not.

[xvirg]

(I Went) Down to the River to Pray is the song title I believe..... some of the verses are 'down in the river to pray'. Pretty song either way. I'm going there now.

[10dtrupe]

No you have it wrong.. Its down in the RIVER to pray.. and theres another song called Down IN THE VALLEY. TWO SEPARATE SONGS

[HenfieldWill]

Ah well... too late now! :-) It's the tune that matters in the end...

[jessyquedens]

Hmm, I wonder how that would translate to a minstrel banjo tuned in open D (d-A-D-F#-A). You make me want to try it.

[HenfieldWill]

The tuning is similar - but not that easily translatable into similar fingering, I suspect. Let me know how you get on. (I play tenor banjo myself - quite different tuning - C-D-G-A). :-) Will

[jessyquedens]

Spose not. It didn't work for "Darlin' Corey."

[kbrkich]

Excellent! Thanks for your time for sharing this with us.

[dulcajack]

Wow! Will This is awesome.

Thanks

Jack

[jakfrz49]

Thank You Very Much.

[organicpaul]

Sweet , like it Bill.

[brucewithab]

hey fly great job,thank for the lesson keep the good work up .thanks alot bruce