How to Dial In "Movin' n' Groovin'" by Duane Eddy - Guitar Tone Settings

The instrumental Duane Eddy wrote with producer Lee Hazlewood and recorded in Phoenix in November 1957. Jamie released it early in 1958; it reached number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is on his debut album, Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel. The opening riff is borrowed from Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", and the Beach Boys copied it a few years later for "Surfin' U.S.A.". Eddy said he built the tune from two hooks, one high and one low, and he played his lines on the bass strings because they recorded stronger than the high notes. His guitar was the 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins model he had bought at Ziggie's Music in Phoenix. His amp was a Magnatone that two Phoenix players, Buddy Wheeler and Dick Wilson, had rebuilt with a 15-inch JBL, a tweeter, a 100-watt power section and a spring echo; no amp is listed because nothing matches that one-off build. The studio had no echo chamber, so Hazlewood bought a 2,000-gallon water tank and used it as one. Play the melody on the bridge pickup through a loud, clean amp with plenty of low end, and add a long, roomy echo. The transcription found has the guitar tuned a half step up (F Bb Eb Ab C F, low to high); in standard tuning, a capo at the first fret gets you to the same pitch.