njwater - Posted - 03/06/2020:  11:17:59

Found a mandolin tab, which I can sort of use. Also saw a slovak player (name escapes me) playing another version that I think I could slow down and approximate or replicate.

BUT thought to ask if anyone has a good dobro tab for this fiddle tune (in C, or an open key that I could capo to C)?

Brad Bechtel - Posted - 03/06/2020:  12:32:08

The "Slovak player" you're thinking of is Henrich Novák.  He has the song tabbed out on his website here.

njwater - Posted - 03/06/2020:  13:14:13

Brad,

Thanks for that!

I could not locate his tab.

For me, it seems that these fiddle tunes are played with some variations that don't "sound the same"
to my ear, but fall within the chord progression of the song.

So it's good to take a few tabs and compare and then find something that works for me in real time.

Hope that makes sense :)

MarkinSonoma - Posted - 03/10/2020:  04:24:20

Except for a handful of fiddle tunes with some distinct melodies, a good portion of the time I can't tell one from the other - they all just meld into one big fiddle tune in my mind. 

I made  a similar comment to Mike Witcher one time and he just looked at me and said something like, "of course they all sound the same - it's bluegrass music."

I will give Heinrich  a listen and print the tab and try to play it to see if it makes any difference. 

Edited by - MarkinSonoma on 03/10/2020 04:26:17

Oboe Cadobro - Posted - 03/10/2020:  08:22:06

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Originally posted by MarkinSonoma

Except for a handful of fiddle tunes with some distinct melodies, a good portion of the time I can't tell one from the other - they all just meld into one big fiddle tune in my mind. 

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Mark, I feel your pain.

Before I took up Dobro, I had an interest in playing the Uilleann pipes. My teacher told me that before I could take up the pipes, I had to learn the tin whistle, which plays the same as the chanter on the pipes. So all I had to do was learn 100 tunes and the proper ornamentation from this book of Irish reels and jigs.

I spent 6 months trying to learn the tunes but they all sounded so similar that I couldn't recall whether a passage was the A section from "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" or the B section from "The Maid Behind The Bar." It was so frustrating that I had to give it up.

Yeah, I know..."cool story, brah!"  

njwater - Posted - 03/10/2020:  12:25:45

they're all the same, except that they're different.



so there.



we have about 10 or so "fiddle tunes" that our local jam picks from on a regular basis, given 2 fiddle and 2 mando players in the group, they seem to get a kick out of them.



Boston Boy was the latest thrown out there by the host, so figured I'd at least have a passable version to try.

Henrich's is a lot easier than another version I found in a pdf of fiddle tunes with mando tablature (with music

it's easy enough to read but not the best arrangements for dobro, at least not for *my* dobro)

Edited by - njwater on 03/10/2020 12:26:40