Chords for Sierra Hull - Having fun with "Get Up John" (Bill Monroe)

_ _ _ Hey you guys, hope everybody's doing well out there.
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I've been enjoying the day here in Nashville playing this old Gibson mandolin, and of course that certainly makes me think about the music of Bill Monroe.
_ Which as a kid, I learned so many Bill Monroe tunes, but one of the ones that _ has always stood out to me as being extra cool and unique is a tune called Get Up, John. _
I actually first heard this tune by another one of my mandolin heroes, Ricky Skaggs.
He made an album called Bluegrass Rules, and Get Up, John is kind of the opening song on the record.
I always thought that was such a cool kickoff to the record.
_ The thing that makes this tune so cool is that it uses the split _ _ _ tuning.
Now on the mandolin, you usually have _ the same tuning as the violin.
You have G, D, A, and E.
In bluegrass, we don't really change that up too much unless we're doing something kind of special like Get Up, John.
I've really been into the idea of split tune _ mandolin lately, _ _ _ particularly on the octave mandolin.
I've recorded a couple songs on my latest album using that kind of approach.
This one's really fun.
I wanted to tell you guys what the tuning is because as a kid, I would have really loved to be able to hop on YouTube and quickly find out what was going on. _ _ _ _ _
You're going to take your top G string and you're going to bump that up to A.
You're going to take the bottom G string, you're going to go down to F sharp. _
You're going to leave the D and the A as is, and then you're going to take your top E string and take that all the way down to A.
_ And then your bottom E string is going to go down a whole step to D.
So you're left with this [D] really _ interesting open tuning.
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_ Now what I've been doing today is mostly sitting around improvising and trying to find fun ways to play with this [B] tuning.
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_ Anyway, you get the [Gm] idea.
You can have fun with that and see what you come up with.
Here's a little bit of Get Up John.
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_ _ _ _ Alright guys, have fun.
Check out Get Up John.
Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs.