http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101/ Comments on MetaFilter post Acoustic Jazz &amp; Swing: Jug &amp; String Band 101 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:08:18 -0800 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:08:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101 <em>How To Be A Jug or String Band MVP</em> - starting with guitar: It's all in <a href="http://www.endprod.com/tab/tabs_nf.htm" title="Guitar Tablature Explained ">tablature</a>, by the way, something easy enough to understand. Three finger fingerpicking guitar is easy to learn--start with <a href="http://plaza.ufl.edu/max74/mjhtab.html" title="Mississippi John Hurt Guitar Tab Book">Mississippi John Hurt</a>: <a href="http://plaza.ufl.edu/max74/tab/payday.txt" title=>Payday</a> was the first song I ever learned. Of course, it's a cinch, being in Open D--but <a href="http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/opentune.htm" title="Open Tuning Tutorial from Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar.Com ">open</a> <a href="http://www.marymccaslin.com/tunings.htm" title="Selected Guitar Tunings From Mary McCaslin">tunings</a> are a cinch, too. With open tunings, how about learning some <a href="http://www.rostock.igd.fhg.de/private/kugraw/slidingzone.html" title="Kay-Uwe Graw's Sliding Zone is the best for slide">slide guitar</a>? Beyond John Hurt, slide or not, open or standard, , there are the ever expanding <a href="http://www.johnfahey.com/Tablatures.htm" title="There's about 50 odd songs here">Fahey Tablatures</a> at John Fahey.com, where Melissa keeps the flame burning ever brightly. <br><em>There's Much More Within...</em> post:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:06:51 -0800 y2karl Folk Music DIY Instruction Tablature Comprehensive Authoritative Exhaustive awesomest post EVAR http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548349 Harmony Central has archives of its <a href="http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Lessons/" title="This collection of lessons includes lessons from Guitar Lesson of the Week (a now defunct mailing list). In addition, there are couple of Jim's Chord Study lessons and many of the lessons from the OLGA.">Guitar Lesson of the Week</a> and Acoustic Guitar Magazine has archived its <a href="http://www.acousticguitar.com/lessons/" title="Welcome to our ever-growing guitar school. Now you can learn from the expert instructors right here at Acoustic guitar Central, using audio, music notation, tablature, and text. we try to give you the background the music, along with the music itself, so you can really develop a feel for the styles and techniques you're learning.">Online Lessons</a> as well. Blues tabs of note can be found here and there--here's <a href="http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mojosoft/tab/waters_muddy/" title=Hoochie coockie man, i can't be satisfied, rock me>three by Muddy Waters</a> and here's the Online Guitar Archives <a href="http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/OLGA/all/robert_johnson.html" title="OLGA Index: ROBERT JOHNSON">Robert Johnson tabs</a>. Johnson lyrics and all things Robert Johnson can be found at the <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSIC/BLUES/rjhome3.html" title="On November23, 1936, Robert Johnson recorded his songs for the first time in San Antonio,Texas. This first of two sessions was unceremoniously squeezed betweenW.Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys the day before, and Hermanas Barazacon guitarras the day after. Yet out of this modest recording session,after which Robert Johnson collected his money and disappeared again intothe wilds of the Mississippi Delta, came a powerful and unique sound whichforever changed music in America.">Robert Johnson Notebooks</a> and do check out the <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSIC/BLUES/rjpapers.html" title="Woman as Sexual Object or Healer in ''Terraplane Blues'' and ''Come On In My Kitchen'', for example">Robert Johnson Papers</a> when you're there. If pick with a pick you must, <a href="http://members.aol.com/jpickii/blugrspg.html#downloads" title="Complete Guide to the best Bluegrass Flatpickin' resources on the Internet, and some other cool stuff">John's Bluegrass Guitar Page</a> has links to various pages of flat pickin' tabs, and Bluegrass Guitar.Com has a <a href="http://bluegrassguitar.com/songtab.htm" title="These are our versions of some popular flatpicking tunes. We've rated these for beginning (b) or intermediate (i) players as indicated. The tunes include both tablature and standard notation as well as chords. We've included MIDI files so that you listen to what the arrangement sounds like. The Key column indicates the key of the arrangement. In some cases, a capo is needed to play a tune in the correct key; in these cases, the capo position is noted.">tablature page full of PDFs</a>. At the Guitar Swamp, it's a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n roll with the <a href="http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/melody/73/tab.html" title="It's mostly jpegs of hand written notes, however...">Chicken Pickin' Rock Guitar Tablature and Instruction</a> and if you really want to get serious, try <a href="http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm" title="''All of the acoustic guitar Tablature shown below is in TablEdit format.''These are not your fathers wcii tab files--but not to worry: there's a stripped down free program for download there, too:''Download the new TablEdit File Viewer 'TEFView' - a free viewer which will show you the tunes in tab and/or music format and will allow you to play and to print them.''">Steve J. McWilliam's Acoustic Guitar Downloads</a>. Most ambitous of all is Matthieu Brandt's <a href="http://www.swingblues.com/Text/intro1.htm" title="Before you is version 1.1 of ''Swing & Jump Blues'', my humble take on what this music is about. I have collected this material over the last three or four years and it attempts to define the different ways of accompanying and soloing in a swing setting.">Swing Blues And Jump Blues Guitar</a>. Then, there's <a href="http://bluegrassbanjo.org/bluetabs.html" title="Traditional A - D, E - K, L - Q & R - Z; Fiddle Tunes; Clawhammer; Jazz; Tabs by Tony Arcaro (Irish, Jazz, Classical, Oldtime, 3-Finger) and Tabs by Xavier Baron (Irish Tunes) ">Banjo Tablatures</a> at Bluegrass Banjo.Org and more at <a href="http://www.freeguitarvideos.com/banjo_lessons.html" title="Free banjo lessons, free banjo videos, free banjo lessons online, and free banjo tabs with Geoff Hohwald for the Banjo Songs book and Let's Jam! CD Country & Bluegrass. Use the popup menu below to go directly to each lesson. The lessons contains the music in tablature along with mp3 clips of each piece of music. In addition, there are QuickTime video clips of each lesson that you can watch or download to your hard drive and play as many times as you like.">Free Banjo Lessons with Geoff Hohwald</a>. <a href="http://www.jbott.com/" title="These songs are for practice and play-along, so you need to furnish your own banjo or whatever.">Jim Bottorff's Banjo Page</a> has more tabs. As for mandolin, at <a href="http://www.co-mando.com" title="This site has been established exclusively for members of the CoMando discussion list. If you are not a member, we welcome you. This site is sponsored by MandoZine, and is considered to be an "open-source" site, one that belongs to all CoMando members. If you have ideas for the site, or want to contribute music or content, contact john@mandozine.com.">Co-Mando.com</a>, you got your <a href="http://www.co-mando.com/music/tab/index.cfm" title="To access ALL files, do not enter a tune name. Just click the ''Find Tablature Files'' button. To find an individual file, fill in the blanks below.">Tabledit tablatures</a> for Bluegrass; Dawg/New Grass; Blues and Jigs--oh, man, they've got the categories and the tabs: 2,200 to date. But be a sport and join the list. <a href="http://www.mandozine.com/home.php" title="MandoZine has been redesigned as a Weblog. The intention is to provide an easy way to do updates to MandoZine, as well as provide a collaborative environment for the mandolin community.">Mandozine</a> is an allied site, now in weblog from. And then there's another <a href="http://www.mandolincafe.com/tabarc.html" title="1607 free tunes from various authors around the world. Search for a tune or tune author:">Mandolin Tablature Archive</a> from the <a href="http://www.mandolincafe.com">Mandolin Cafe</a>. John Baldry's Bluegrass Mandolin Homepage has even more <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~john.baldry/mando/tablist.html" title="Tablature List">tabs</a>. By the way, the one blues mandolin tab I've found is <a href="http://www.co-mando.com/music/tab/showtab.cfm?tab_ID=343" title="It's in tablEdit format, let it be noted">Johnny Young's Shuffle</a>, courtesy Co-Mando and Rich Del Grosso, a fine blues mandolinist who studied with the master: <a href="http://www.craigmorrison.com/yankobit.html" title="But for James ''Yank'' Rachell (which he pronounced ''Ray-shell''), the mandolin, common in early string bands, nearly died out as a blues instrument. while a few others were recorded playing blues mandolin, Rachell not recorded prolifically but brought the instrument into new contexts. He also played rhythmically interesting guitar. In later years he electrified his instruments at times, but his mandolin sound, characterized by biting fills and swirling lines, ever remained haunting. Over his nearly 70-year recording career, he left a deep musical mark sides under his own name and in accompanying Sleepy John Estes, John Lee ''Sonny Boy'' Williamson, Washboard Sam, Henry townsend, Big Joe Williams, and others.">Yank Rachell</a>. If you wish to take a bow fretless, <a href="http://fiddleguru.com/" title="They Laughed When I Pulled Out an Old Fiddle... but when I Played a Hoedown, they Really Put their Hands Together!">Fiddle Guru</a> has some <a href="http://fiddleguru.com/Online_Fiddle_Lessons/lessons.html" title="Announcing: Learn to Play Fiddle in "Lesson a month>introductory fiddle lessons in tab</a>. Now amazingly enough, there are harp--as in harmonica--tabs online: Harmonica Lessons.Com, while a commercial site, has a couple of pages of <a href="http://www.harmonicalessons.com/tabs/tabs_blu.html" title="Muddy Water's Mannish Boy, Willie Dixon's Spoonful, Junior Wells's Messing With The Kid, & Howlin' Wolf's solo from Sitting On Top Of The World">Blues Riffs</a> and <a href="http://www.harmonicalessons.com/improv.html" title=A simple 2nd position set of notes to begin jamming with>Basic Blues Improv</a>. <a href="http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~rudedog/harp.html" title="If you came to this page to learn to play the blues on the harmonica; you won't be disappointed. I've been on the harp for 4 years now and love to share what I've learned with everyone. Before you go any further please realize that learning the harp takes time and practice. You won't be playing in 5 minutes but you will be playing soon enough. The whole point of this page is to help you learn to play the blues on the harmonica.">Jeffrey's Blues Harp Page</a> has some more tabs and instruction. Glenn Weiser's massive <a href="http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/index.htm" title="Glenn Weiser is the author of four Celtic fingerstyle guitar books and three harmonica books, available here. He has also written for Acoustic Guitar, Sing Out!, and Acoustic Musician magazines. Glenn performs Celtic music, blues, old-timey, and other folk styles (see booking information) and teaches lessons on guitar, harmonica, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin in Albany, Clifton Park, and Latham, NY.">Celtic Guitar Page</a> has some some harp tab, too--including Little Walter's <a href="http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/juke.htm" title="Juke And Other Blues Harp Classics Transcribed by Glenn Weiser">Juke</a>, which was to blues harmonica as Coleman Hawkin's Body and Soul was to saxophone. megasite For the cajun and zydeco inclined, there's <a href="http://www.bignick.net/BoxLessons/boxlesson_Index.htm" title="Welcome to Big Nick's introduction to Cajun accordion playing tutorial!">Big Nick's Cajun Button Box Seminar</a> and another cajun/zydeco resource is <a href="http://user.aol.com/accrdnmn/cajun.html" title="AccordionMan [:||\\|//||:] Anders Bakke - ''Honorary Cajun'' ">Accordion Man's MIDI Cajun Page</a>. <em>Garry Kaluzny's Cajun/Zydeco Accordion Tunes w/ Tablature</em> is at Yahoo Group's <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CZUnmod/">Cajun Zydeco Unmoderated</a> but you will have to join to see it. Then there is <a href="http://www.keyofzrubboards.com/video/index.htm" title="Hey, mes amis, the Frottoir is a fun, simple, and creative musical instrument. Getting started is easy- after all, the Frottoir is one of the first musical instruments we put in our children's' hands. Many of the legendary Frottoir players started playing when they were very small children in family bands. Mojo has taught literally hundreds of school children to play the Frottoir's basic rhythms. And now, through the miracle of Internet Video, Mojo and I will get you started playing the Frottoir right here, right now. These are to get you started- there are no rules- YOU CREATE YOUR OWN STYLE AND EXPRESS YOURSELF! Just click below on the rhythms you want to learn. (Of course, Mojo is an accordion player, so he demonstrates the basics... dat hot stuff, dat's me!)">Tee Don's Key of Z Rubboards Online Instructional Videos</a>. Rubboards=Washboards. That's putting us into the Jug Band homestretch, so here's <a href="http://www.schnipp.com/jug.htm" title="The stoneware jug pictured below is the type that is usually preferred by the better jug players around the country. This one cost about me about $35.00. They are readily available where ever antiques are sold. Although some jugs did in fact hold moonshine whiskey these kinds of jugs held anything that was liquid.">How To Play The Jug</a> by Curbside Jimmy of the Curbside Jug Band, <a href="http://64.33.34.112/.WWW/jugband.html" title="Being an expository statement the history of those bands commonly yclept Jug or Washboard Bands, together with complete courses of instruction in the art of Jug Blowing, Washboard Scraping, and 'Bones' Playing, plus an exhaustive discussion of Rhythm.">Skiffle Bands And All That Jazz</a>, <a href="http://www.jugmusic.com/wtb-play.html" title="When you play, stand on one foot behind the tub, placing the other foot on the rim of the tub, towards the front. To get different notes, haul back on the staff, putting more tension (or less) on the string.">How To Play A Washtub Bass</a>, the <a href="http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/Tublinks.html" title="Welcome to Tubotonia's Washtub Bass Page. It's a focal point and clearinghouse for information on all aspects of the WTB-- who plays one, where to hear one, how to make one, and so on.">Washtub Bass Page</a> and, simply enough, <a href="http://www.otherpower.com/washtub_bass.html" title="Our bluegrass and folk band was desperately in need of a string bass and a reliable bass player. However, both are hard to find! 'Reliable' and 'Bass player' are two words not normally used in the same sentence (no offense to any bass players out there, but I've had much experience in this...) And it's rare to find a bass player who owns an acoustic upright bass instead of an electric. So we improvised, and built the washtub bass pictured here. It cost more than we would have liked (total cost of about $1.75), but it was an easy 1 hour project. Everyone in all of our families can play it, kids included, and we often harass listeners to grab the bass and join in. Anyone can learn to play it in one minute or less, and no musical knowledge or complicated fingerings are required.">Washtub Bass</a>. For some lyrics, try Blues Lyrics On Line <a href="http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/2541/az-singr.htm" title=>Blues Lyrics by Artist</a>--it's rich with swing and ragtime--and <a href="http://www.blueside.de/txt/g2btexte.txt" title=>Franz and Helmut's Blues Inside - Lyrics</a>. By the way, their chorus of the month is <a href="http://www.blueside.de/u1chor.htm">All Your Love</a> by Luther Allison. And with that, I believe you're good to go.</a> comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548349 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:08:18 -0800 y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548355 Fuck's sake man! comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548355 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:21:28 -0800 xmutex http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548358 ok. awesomest. post. EVAR. also, the most useful. I will be a guitar star within a month. But sheeesh. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548358 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:30:44 -0800 sodalinda http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548369 John Fahey is great. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548369 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:45:20 -0800 drobot http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548371 y2karl, I'm giving you my first born's penis. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548371 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:46:29 -0800 bingbangbong http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548373 What, no Leo Kottke? comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548373 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:51:27 -0800 jonson http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548380 As a banjo player, I will have to point out one HUGE source for everything banjo. <a href="http://www.banjohangout.org">BanjoHangout</a>. Also, I mess around with a washtub bass as well. <a href="http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/kochbas3.htm">Here </a>are <a href="http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/db2.jpg">two </a>of my favorite designs. ( I have built one similiar to the second photo, and it plays like a champ.) comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548380 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:01:08 -0800 bradth27 http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548404 Thanks, y2karl. This is great stuff. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548404 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:03:30 -0800 attackthetaxi http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548405 <i>"We're not birds, we're a jug band..."</i> <br>And I'd just like to say, I <a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/2442">Called</a> him first, damn good work Karl. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548405 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:05:42 -0800 Blake http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548446 y2karl is my personal link god now. I start guitar lessons Tuesday. Whee! comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548446 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:10:45 -0800 five fresh fish http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548510 Great post! Two of my favorites for guitar lessons/tabs: <a href="http://www.guitarnoise.com/">GuitarNoise</a> and <a href="http://www.powertabs.net/">PowerTabs</a>. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548510 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:07:12 -0800 kmartino http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548548 If you are interested in the mandolin, or musical genius in general, check out <a href="http://www.co-mando.com/resources/CGOW/index.htm">this</a> section of co-mando.com. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548548 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:02:48 -0800 transient http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548582 one of these days im gonna wake up boozy gonna grab my gun gonna kill ol suzy nobody's business but mine comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548582 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:44:00 -0800 Satapher http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#548601 Thanks, Karl. One of the first songs I ever learned was Fahey's <a href="http://www.johnfahey.com/TabSligoRiver.htm">"Sligo River Blues"</a> back in high school on my grandfather's guitar. Don't ever try to play that song anymore these days, though--it's just makes me so goddamned sad. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-548601 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:55:30 -0800 dhoyt http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#550602 Aw, I was out of town when this thread started. But this site really <a href="http://www.hotclub.co.uk/">helped me start to decipher Django Reinhardt's</a> style. Particularly all his <a href="http://www.hotclub.co.uk/java/djangolo.html">three-finger chord shapes</a> which are all movable and have a totally different feel and texture than barre chords. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-550602 Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:41:51 -0800 bendybendy http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#550704 The y2Karl guitar thread: only 15 people commented, but every one of those 15 people started a band. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-550704 Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:58:32 -0800 luser http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic-Jazz-and-Swing-Jug-and-String-Band-101#550744 Jeez, bendybendy--what a find! Thanks. comment:www.metafilter.com,2003:site.28085-550744 Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:51:19 -0800 y2karl