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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on May 24, 2015 at 3:11am

Mattis,

Plinking away until it sounds similar is indeed one way to do it. The thing is, if you have a diatonic fretted Canjo ( you don't mention the scale length or the tuning of that one string when it's open, meaning, non-fretted, which is somewhat important), you can map out the notes on your fret board very quickly. Then you take the tabs from the Tetris Theme, and map those notes out. You'll notice they are played on the GBE strings of a 6-stringer. You'll have to take the note sequence from the Tetris tab, and transfer it to those notes on your one stringer. Since you only have 1 string, and have diatonic fretting, there is a reasonable chance that you won't be able to play one or more of the original notes in a fretted position, at least without some string bending.

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Permalink Reply by Mattis Carlgren on May 24, 2015 at 4:23am

Ahh, I see. Cheers for your help, mate! As you said some notes where hard to get right, but I'm sure I can figure something out to make it sound right. When I'm done and if it sounds alright I'll post the tabs for you guys =)

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on May 24, 2015 at 9:23am

Another way to do it is to make a chromatic fretted Canjo. Then at least you stand a chance of getting the notes right. Plus, you have another build under your belt.

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