Christmas Eve Is Coming, Anna

[Trey Young]

Does anyone have this tabbed out? For those who aren't familiar with the song, it's a fiddle tune by Peter Ostroushko from the Peter O. and Norman Blake album Meeting On Southern Soil (a fantastic album). He has the tune written out in standard notation for fiddle on his web site, but I have about as much chance of winning the lottery as I do of learning to read music any time soon...thanks

[Steve Cantrell]

Jim Richter has an excellent version on his YouTube Channel that I've referred to many times. It's a beautiful tune.

[JEStanek]

You can take your standard notation and write your own tab. I have a couple of tools and have done it myself a couple of times.

Use the Scale and fingerbaord on the sheet I've uploaded on Keyscale chord.pdf. Then you can take your standard notation and change the note from the standard notation (don't for get the sharps or flats at the front of each line) and convert them to tab. I've also added a music sheet.pdf that has just the tab lines in this thread.

Note on the Key scale sheet, I've marked 1, 2, 3, 4 over the staff where the open strings on the mandolin are. Fret 7 on one string is the same as an open string on the next highest pitch so you can use an 8 on the D string or a 1 on the A string.

This is a rewarding exercise and not as hard as it seems. It will help you learn the neck and your ear will help you if you tab a mistake (often from mising the sharp or flat at the beginning of each line).

Jamie

EDIT: When I click on my attachment the PDF doesn't open. Use the right click SAVE TARGET option if necessary.

[JimRichter]

Jim Richter has an excellent version on his YouTube Channel that I've referred to many times. It's a beautiful tune.

Thanks, Steve. You can see a lot of what I'm doing since the camera's on the left and right hand. I'd advocate just figuring it out from the video, as it's not a hard tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTauu3aXXp8

Jim

[Trey Young]

Thanks Jamie for the links to transferring that over. I'm excited to try it out, it seems like it will be a good learning experience for me.

Jim, I saw your video on YouTube a while back and it is what got me wanting to learn the tune on mandolin, a great job on this tune and all of your tunes on YouTube. I don't get internet at home (just at coffee shops and at work), so following along would be a bit tough. I don't know of any way to be able to save a YT video.
Thanks again guys,

Trey

[Bill Snyder]

... I don't know of any way to be able to save a YT video.
Thanks again guys,

Trey

If you have the most recent version of Real Player a little window pops up above YouTube videos giving you the option to save them.
See the screen shot.

[Trey Young]

that's great, thanks Bill.

[ommmmaggie]

Hey there, I just stumbled on this sweet tune. Anyone know if it’s public domain?

[John Strong]

Hey there, I just stumbled on this sweet tune. Anyone know if it’s public domain?

It doesn't show up in a search of public domain songs, so I suspect the rights still belong to Peter O.

https://www.pdinfo.com/