Thanks Steve for the great, complete and clear answer to my question. Its much appreciated here. linda
On Jul 30, 12:17 pm, Steve Cantrell <sec...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I've given a lot of thought to this topic lately, Linda, mostly because I have > recently gotten into a contra dance band that plays entirely OT standards. The > old time in the Piedmont area of SC/NC/GA isn't the same sort of old time that > gets adhered to in some places. It has much more African influence, and I just > don't think you can get the mountain and bluegrass out of it no matter if it > is academically picked apart a million ways. It's just there and you can hear > it. It is much looser, and generally even an old time jam is "come as you > please, just play the melody". Not nearly as uptight as it is just over the > border in Asheville, where a chop chord might get you ran out of town on a > rail. > > At first I thought rhythm, that I would play rhythm and try my best to put > whatever flourishes in there to make it entertaining. Eventually, the fiddle > player told me to jump on the melody with him and away we've gone, and for my > money it is dance music with...muscle, maybe. The mandolin adds a great deal > to > it. > > I think a good example of this approach is the Foghorn Stringband. Caleb > Klauder > gets right in there with the fiddle player and they pick the melody together. > It > takes practice to get that syncopation right, but once you've got it, you're > cooking with...old time butter. > > Just my two cents, but honestly, I don't think the real old timers--the guys > who > actually played this stuff back in the day--would turn you out unless you > couldn't keep time. Guys that made their strings with guts and banjos with > gourds would probably not bat an eyelash if you want to play the melody...or > not. > > ________________________________ > From: Linda <lj...@intas.net.au> > To: Taterbugmando <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wed, July 28, 2010 9:50:43 PM > Subject: Re: Garfield > > I always wonder about mandolin in an old-time setting. Its not a > fiddle. Seems like the Tater managed a good run through to suit a > mandolin - banjo duo. Mighty fast pickin too. How many ideas are > there out there ...for mando and guitar or mando and fiddle duo, mando > and banjo duo, playing old time, how many possibilities or approaches > have folks seen or thought of? In groups here, doing old time tunes, > mandolins are mainly wanted for chops, they can really help the rhythm > but it can be boring. I keep looking for ideas for mando to play part > tune and part chords...have found a few. > > That is where Mr. Monroe comes in as I think he worked those ideas out > pretty good. Looking and listening it seems to me he played double > stops now and then, simplifying the melody, but went heavy and perhaps > funky with right hand to boost, accent the rhythm side. That seems to > be where he did his 'talking'. > > Solo ...well then one can show off the picking technique, also one can > display great technique getting all the notes in with mando and guitar > duo, me thinks. > > I would like to know more about Mrs. Haley's technique. > It is a great tune hey? > linda > > On Jul 29, 1:25 am, Dasspunk <dassp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Howdy all, > > > I put a copy of this file on my server for anyone that wants to > > download it. It's a .mp4 so you can open it in QuickTime 7 and slow it > > down to your heart's content (as long as your heart is contented with > > QuickTime's slowest setting). > > > Here's the file:http://dasspunk.com/garfields.mp4 > > > And here's an explanation of slowing down video/audio in > >QuickTime:http://dasspunk.com/2008/slowing-down-those-hot-licks/ > > > Hope this helps! > > Brian > > > On Jul 28, 4:50 am, mistertaterbug <taterbugmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Don, > > > The danged mandolin player didn't play the dots, but would sure like > > > to figger out a way to do it. Haven't figgered it out since 2000. Big > > > white Mutha Whale it is. Also, there's only two parts being > > > represented here, not the crooked part towards the end. Yet another > > > thing to do. > > > > Tatuh > > > > On Jul 27, 7:21 pm, Don <adobeinthepi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > My program for grabbing youtubes won't work on this one but I finally > > > > figured out there's no C part, duh. I've got the version off of 20 > > > > Year Blues slowed down to see what the TaterMasher did to the dots. > > > > > I started this one a long time ago and gave up. Time to try it again. > > > > Great white whale tune, indeed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
