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Hi everyone, Adam will be leading the beginner jam this coming Tuesday. (Feb. 3rd) The song of the week is 'Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms' in the key of G. Recordings Flatt & Scruggs - key of Bb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UvSJcqJeyc Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - key of B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9eIctniT0U Jam Videos Jason Homey - key of G Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms Jam Video - Jason Homey - YouTube Jason Homey - keys of Bb and B Jason’s YouTube Links – Alphabetical Listing – Parisology Janene Thomas & Jason Homey - key of E Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms [E] (youtube.com) Progression 1111 1155 1144 5511 (Prog. W2 on the Basic Chord Progressions chart.) In the key of G: 1=G, 4=C, 5=D. In the key of Bb: 1=Bb, 4=Eb, 5=F. In the key of B: 1=B, 4=E, 5=F#. In the key of C: 1=C, 4=F, 5=G. In the key of D: 1=D, 4=G, 5=A. In the key of E: 1=E, 4=A, 5=B. Song List 13 songs were played at last night's jam: 8 from the main list, 4 from the additional songs list, and 1 that is on neither list: Boil The Cabbage Down - A Forked Deer - D Light At The River - C Mountain Dew - A Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - B Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong - D This Little Light Of Mine - A Wreck Of The Old '97 - D Clinch Mountain Backstep - A I'll Fly Away - G Old Joe Clark - A Soldier's Joy - D Paradise - D Happy Pickin', Jason 
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The song of the week is 'Forked Deer' in the key of D. Recordings Jeff Autry, Wayne Benson, Aubrey Haynie, Rob Ickes, Mark Schatz, Rickie Simpkins, & Scott Vestal - key of D Forked Deer - YouTube Berline, Crary, & Hickman - key of D Berline, Crary, & Hickman - Forked Deer - YouTube There is a lot going on in these recordings of the tune. You may find it useful to look at the jam video (below) first, to get a more basic sense of the tune, before listening to the recordings. Jam Video Jason’s YouTube Links – Alphabetical Listing – Parisology (cyberplasm.com) Progression A-Part 1 4 1 5 1 4 1/4 5/1 B-Part 5 5 5 1 5 5 1/4 5/1 In the key of D: 1 = D, 4 = G, 5 = A (In the key of C: 1 = C, 4 = F, 5 = G) Melody & Breaks: fiddle, mandolin, and guitar In the attachments, I have included two versions of the melody for fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, a simpler stripped down version of the melody to help get one started on the tune, that gives one interpretation of the more essential notes in the tune, and then a more developed version of the melody. Players of instruments besides fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, can also make use of this material to get ideas for playing breaks for the tune. I have written all these melody sheets in a manner that makes them playable as bona fide bluegrass breaks, without the need to add anything more to them for them to sound like proper bluegrass breaks. If you find that a 'more notes' version of the melody is too difficult to play smoothly at the speeds that Forked Deer is sometimes played at jams, then I recommend taking a 'fewer notes' version of the melody as one's basis for playing a break for the tune, and selectively adding into it a few passages here and there from a 'more notes' version. For instance, once one has a 'fewer notes' version of the melody down-pat and up to speed, then as a next step, one might work on getting measures 1, 3, & 5 of the A-Part (all three of these measures are identical with each other in the versions of the melody I have given in the attachments) in a 'more notes' version of the melody also up to speed by looping them over and over again, so that one can substitute these in place of measures 1, 3, & 5 of one's 'fewer' notes version of the melody/break. The slower the tune is being played, the more desirable it is to play more consecutive 8th notes, and try not to have too many quarter notes back to back. The faster the tune is being played, the more desirable it is to break up a long series of 8th notes with quarter notes. (There are some versions of the A-Part, for instance, that consist almost entirely of 8th notes: more notes than the 'more notes' versions of the melody I have offered here.) For this reason, I recommend that even if one is able to play smoothly at a reasonably fast tempo a 'more notes' version of the melody, to work on being able to mix it up with a 'fewer notes' version of the melody in various different ways. This helps to keep one's playing flexible, so that one is not stuck with just one way of playing a break for the tune; but rather, how one plays a break in any given situation can be influenced by the tempo and feel with which the tune is being played at the time, and also by what one might feel like doing in the moment. Melody & Breaks: Banjo In the attachments, I have included both a very stripped down version of the melody for 3-finger banjo, and an example of a straightforward Scruggs-style break. The stripped down version of the melody is not intended to function as a break for the tune, but rather just gives the main melodic content of the Scruggs-style break. This version of the melody is just one of many possible interpretations of the more essential notes of the melody that are desirable to include in a melody-based Scruggs-style break. The melody sheet and break are written for C tuning: banjo tuned: GCGBD. Capo the 2nd fret and raise the fifth string up to an A note in order for these to come out in the key of D. Clawhammer banjo players can also get some ideas from this material, but may prefer to tune to double C tuning: GCGCD, in which case, for reading the skeletal melody sheet, substitute 0 in place of 1 on the 2nd string, and 4 on the 3rd string in place of 0 on the 2nd string. Intros & Endings I have also included in the attachments, 8 Potato Intros and Double Endings suitable for Forked Deer, and for many other key of D fiddle tunes. Song List 15 songs were played at last night's jam: 9 from the main list, 5 from the additional songs list, and 1 that is on neither list: Boil The Cabbage Down - A Forked Deer - D Gathering Flowers From The Hillside - G Light At The River - D Little Cabin Home On The Hill - A Mama Don't Allow - A She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain - D This Little Light Of Mine - B Wreck Of The Old '97 (played twice) - A & D Clinch Mountain Backstep - A I'll Fly Away - A Liberty - D Sitting On Top Of The World Will The Circle Be Unbroken - C I Saw The Light Happy Pickin', Jason Forked Deer - banjo tab - Scruggs-style break Download File Forked Deer - banjo tab - skeletal melody Download File Forked Deer - guitar tab - fewer notes Download File Forked Deer - guitar tab - more notes Download File Forked Deer - mandolin tab - fewer notes Download File Forked Deer - mandolin tab - more notes Download File Forked Deer - melody - fewer notes Download File Forked Deer - melody - more notes Download File Key of D 8 Potato Intros Download File Key of D Double Endings Download File Hi everyone,
The song of the week is 'Wreck Of The Old '97' in the key of D. Recordings Flatt & Scruggs: key of Bb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=732g2a7pmpM The Osborne Brothers: mandolin intro break and verses in the key of E; fiddle break in the key of A; banjo break in the key of B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XSTYrVV4Pc Mac Wiseman: key of D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vt-s3aYl8&list=RDD_vt-s3aYl8 Jason Homey & The Snake River Boys - key of D Wreck Of The Old ’97 - Jason Homey and the Snake River Boys - YouTube Jam Videos Jason Homey - keys of C and D Jason’s YouTube Links – Alphabetical Listing – Parisology (cyberplasm.com) Janene Thomas - key of G Wreck of the Old ‘97 [G] (youtube.com) Progression 1144 1155 1144 1511 (Prog. V7 on the Basic Chord Progressions chart.) In the key of G: 1=G, 4=C, 5=D In the key of A: 1=A, 4=D, 5=E In the key of Bb: 1=Bb, 4=Eb, 5=F In the key of B: 1=B, 4=E, 5=F# In the key of C: 1=C, 4=F, 5=G In the key of D: 1=D, 4=G, 5=A In the key of E: 1=E, 4=A, 5=B Song List 13 songs were played at last night's jam: 8 from the main list, 4 from the additional songs list, and 1 that is on neither list: Boil The Cabbage Down - A Forked Deer - D Gathering Flowers From The Hillside - G Little Cabin Home On The Hill - A Mama Don't Allow - G Mountain Dew - B When The Saints Go Marching In - B Wreck Of The Old '97 (played twice) - D I'll Fly Away (played twice) - G Liberty - D Soldier's Joy - D Will The Circle Be Unbroken - C Red River Valley - C Happy Pickin', Jason Wreck Of The Old '97 - banjo tab D Download File Wreck Of The Old '97 - banjo tab C Download File Wreck Of The Old '97 - guitar tab D Download File Wreck Of The Old '97 - guitar tab C Download File Wreck Of The Old '97 - mandolin tab Download File Wreck Of The Old '97 - melody in D Download File BBJ - Wreck Of The Old '97 - lyric cheat sheet Download File Hi everyone,
The song of the week is 'Little Cabin Home On The Hill' in the key of A. Recordings Bill Monroe - key of A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GbU45MyMFc Osborne Brothers - key of B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwwaWhxaYs Jam Videos Jason Homey - key of A Jason’s YouTube Links – Alphabetical Listing – Parisology (cyberplasm.com) Janene Thomas - key of D Little Cabin Home on the Hill [D] (youtube.com) Progression The chord progression for the verses and breaks is: 1141 1155 1141 1511 (Prog. V6 on the Basic Chord Progressions handout) The progression for the chorus is: 4411 1155 1141 1511 (Prog. X6 on the Basic Chord Progressions handout) In the key of G: 1=G, 4=C, 5=D In the key of A: 1=A, 4=D, 5=E In the key of B: 1=B, 4=E, 5=F# In the key of C: 1=C, 4=F, 5=G In the key of D: 1=D, 4=G, 5=A Attachments In the attachments, in addition to the lyric cheat sheet, and the melody sheets for the verse which I provide primarily for the sake of giving people a good starting point for coming up with melody-based breaks for the song, I have also included a sheet that shows the melody and the tenor harmony for the chorus. For each pair of notes, the lower of the two is the melody note, and the higher of the two is the tenor harmony note. Song List 16 songs were played at last night's jam: 9 from the main list, and 7 from the additional songs list: Boil The Cabbage Down - A (played twice) Forked Deer - D Gathering Flowers From The Hillside - A Gold Watch And Chain - Bb I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes - C Little Cabin Home On The Hill - A Mountain Dew - B New River Train - G Wreck Of The Old '97 - A Beautiful Brown Eyes - G Clinch Mountain Backstep - A Cripple Creek - A Foggy Mountain Top - A I'll Fly Away - G Nine Pound Hammer - G Soldier's Joy - D Happy Pickin', Jason Little Cabin Home - Banjo tab Download File Little Cabin Home - Guitar tab Download File Little Cabin Home - Mandolin tab Download File Little Cabin Home - Melody in A Download File Little Cabin Home On The Hill - Chorus Download File BBJ - Little Cabin Home On The Hill - lyric cheat sheet Download File |
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