Skip James Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Tuning

The song was originally written and played in open dm tuning if i m not mistaken.

Skip james hard time killing floor blues tuning. James work is characterized by haunting themes due in no small part to the use of open d minor tuning low to high. Sung moaned or hummed between verses and the people are driftin from door to door can t find no heaven don t care where they go. Lesson 1 of 6 open dm tuning and song preview. Hard time killing floor blues tab by skip james.

Times is harder than they been before. Skip james hard time killin floor blues. How to play hard time killing floor b print. It s skip james most famous song and still serves as an inspiration to many artists to this day.

James first recorded for paramount records in 1931 but these recordings sold poorly having been released during the great depression and he drifted into obscurity. Hard time killin floor by nehemiah skip james 1930 you know that hard times are here an everywhere you go. Open d minor tuning d a d f a d hard time killing floor blues utilizes the basics of playing in the open d minor tuning. Nehemiah curtis skip james was an american delta blues singer guitarist pianist and songwriter.

D a d f a d. His guitar playing is noted for its dark minor key sound played in an open d minor tuning with an intricate fingerpicking technique. The guitarist picked up this tuning from a fellow mississippi musician henry stuckey who had learned it from caribbean soldiers while serving in france during world war i. After a long absence from the public eye james was rediscovered in 1964 by blues enthusiasts incl.

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