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The most obvious note to skip is -- ergonomically AND musically in this case-- the root. I would advise anyone not to use chord charts, but work out the chords for themselves, grouped in various ways...

Not sure what you mean, or whether you're addressing me. I'm not sure that a 52 year old recording reflects my total knowledge today, or even then.. As an aging player (I'll be 80 in August) I still...

"The person writing the tablature" today is mostly a computer program. Glancing at a piece of tab I'm usually struck, e.g., by the abundance of open strings, often in contexts where they're best...

Fb (8 flats!) is harmonically the same as E, not an unusual key in Bluegrass; think of Watson Blues and Brown County Breakdown.
, Christmas Time's Coming.

obviously something went wrong here. You can find the recording (September 1969) I'm referring to on Mando Hangout/Media/mp3 library/ under the letter C. As I recall ALL my triplets used split...

Here's how I did it in 1969, "Crossing the Cumberlands II":

Ans a good answer, but really, I was asking the TS - would be much easier to give productive advice if we knew his answer ...

Or Louis Armstrong (who was an excellent reader) or several others.

How do you go about learning a new tune, and what (kind) are your sources?

First of all, Red Wing is not a fiddle tune but a song, written in the beginning of the 20th century. Like some other songs from that era, e.g., Siver Bell, Snow Deer, the lyrics are about a Native...

Hm, what is the actual topic? Bluegrass+blues + instrumental. Blues?: A few examples given here could be called bimodal: melody in, e.g., the Mixolydian or the Dorian, over major chords. I don't hear...

#4 is misnumbered, should really be #3. But it relies heavily on the vocal, perhaps the best blues vocal I've heard from a BG musician, Just take that line: "Hair like a horse's mane".

That's simply a 12-bar blues in G, with no theme, just something they put together or improvised on the spot. Much like Bluegrass Special, in A. Bluegrass Stomp at least has a profiled theme


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thanks -- I found out after a few minutes,

What exactly is a 57-1 turn around?

Chris Henry presents it as Monroe's version, and that is chiefly what Monroe plays on the Baker plays Monroe album, except the fourth part which is left to Baker. Monroe's version is emphatically ...

Why would anyone want to know that version, and why does Chris Henry teach it? It's a crude version of the actual melody, cutting corners as it were, played in an even stream of eighth notes, all of...

F&S at one point in their careers, often tuned a half step sharp. There are several recorded examples in Db (e.g., On My Mind), F#, and Ab. For medium up numbers, like Dim Lights, Thick Smoke they...

There are four sections, and I suppose you mean the fourth. It can be done in either 2nd or 3rd position or a combination of both.

The story I've read is that Berlin reduced everything to F# major by means of some kind of lever shifting the keyboard sideways. Perhaps his understanding of the major scale was centered on the...

Paul Anastasio, jazz and Western swing violinist. Cut a beautiful swing album (We Ain't Misbehavin') with Joe Holley and Frank Hicks. Just two violins and a guitar.

Monroe did Voice From on High in Eb but I believe he tuned a half step sharp on that session. Guitarists, of course would much prefer to go a half step higher, to E, for the deep rumbling bass of the...

The recent key on capoing took the expected turn, with almost no one addressing the actual *didactic* issue. One prejudice that was repeated was that certain "unusual", "difficult", "strange" etc....

When I started out on the mandolin I never used chord charts, I worked out the chords myself, looking for chord forms that connected well, following Johansson's rule: In an ensamelbe, rhythmically...

What appears "comfortable" to the beginner may not be the ideal approach in the long run. What you speak of in the last half of your post is *interpretation*, and who would want any of that in...