Robin, I just uploaded a transcription of the mando solo on "Letter From My Darlin" if you want to have a go at it. Check out the Files page. TBug
On Sep 13, 3:21 pm, Robin Gravina <[email protected]> wrote: > Linda - fully endorse the book recommendation: I ordered it a few > months ago and it succeeds in making the connection between the life > and the music, although it doesn't have transcriptions or a detailed > study of the shifts in style. I listened to 'Letter from my Darling' > just recently to work out the solo and intro and it is just amazing > when you know the story behind the song, which I won't spoil for you > by telling here. Monroe sounds just so impatient to play his solo that > it fills the whole song with tremendous energy and desire. When he > finally gets to it, the relief is palpable and he says what he wanted > to say. He kept his solo to the end, so I guess we can't rule out a > showman knowing how to create energy and desire so that his girl would > keep listening to the words. Whatever it is, the effect is just > heartrending. > > A question, as I have been so long without a class, and have a lot of > stuff stored up: Where do you all play the kind of tremolo on the > intro to that song, or Old Crossroads a waiting: I think it's usually > in threes, but sometimes in fours, In the key of G, it would be on D > on the second string, G on the first. xx53 and lasting two and a bit > beats. I have been trying it close to the bridge, all the way up to > over the frets and each place gets a different sound, obviously never > as good as the source, but I can't really decide what is the good way: > I hear the energy coming in very quickly and stopping very suddenly: > like a phone as Tater says. Also, how is the pick? leaned outwards > towards the high strings relative to a perpendicular to the mandolin > is what MC said, but the pick parallel to the strings or angled (axis > from F hole to F hole)?? I think it's such a key part of the sound > that I would like to hear some detailed opinions from those who have > perhaps got somewhere close. > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mike Hedding <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > There already is a great book documenting Monroes life called "can't > > you hear me calling" talks a lot about all the different stages in his > > life and a lot about different tunes he wrote. > > > Check it out it's a great read. > > > Mike Hedding > > > On Sep 13, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Recently took a look at a thread on Mandolin Cafe re Bill Monroe, > >> there were a few who who voiced an opinion that the Monroe Legacy is > >> losing ground in the music scene, or something near that idea. > > >> Sure wish somebody had the time and inclination to put something > >> together to boost Monroe's profile. I would like to own a book that > >> linked up his music with his life, what he wrote/arranged/played at > >> various stages in his career, complete with tabs and dots and some > >> background on the tunes and just how that slotted into what was going > >> on in his life. > >> It would be nice to consider the range of things he did musically over > >> his lifetime, when he wrote what, etc.. > > >> Currently I am playing Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong. Looking at the > >> melody line of the tune from another source then the Monroe take > >> transcribed by Mr. Tater. For me, Monroe was a genius at taking a > >> fairly simple, even ordinary melody like this one and transforming it > >> into something of complete beauty. > > >> I would love to read what other folks, who are more informed re the > >> scope of Monroe's work, have to say about what he did that made his > >> music so special. > >> I am so far not as keen on the hard driving flying fingers bluegrass > >> but love those harmonies and decorations, spin, etc. Monroe put on the > >> rest of the music he graced us with. > > >> There is a book crying out to be made, but who has the time and the > >> knowledge to do it? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
