Quicklink: flatpicker hangout tab archive

check it out, there are about 50 different tunes in there, mostly fiddle but some singing tunes as well.

Quicklink: Bluegrass college guitar fakebook

Guitar tab including bill cheatem, big sandy, etc.

quicklink: Sean Ray ear training vids

Top notch!

Quicklink: Pickin' in SF GG Park

From the fj-list

PICKIN' PARTY IN GOLDEN GATE PARK
Saturday, May 9
Noon
Dahlia Dell Picnic Area @ Fell and Stanyan, Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco
free/all welcome
Presented by the California Bluegrass Association
Free drawing for tickets to the
CBA Father's Day Festival
Details coming soon!

Quicklink: All the Good Times / Maiden's Prayer / Red Wing

A quick dump of some arrangements I've been working on.

The Red Wing arrangement is still very much a basic melody / work in progress and will likely be updated.

All the Good Times Are Past and Gone - from Dix Bruce's double-stop mando tab (PDF)

Maiden's Prayer - key of A, rearranged from piano sheet (PDF)

Red Wing - from bluegrassguitar.com (PDF)

Jam update and whatnot coming later this evening.

quicklink: youtube stuff

http://www.youtube.com/user/tonedr

and

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=BlindPigAndTheAcorn

and

http://www.youtube.com/user/annieandmac

Quicklink: Dix Bruce Massive PDF Linkspam of Death

Dumping all the Dix Bruce tab I can find.

UPDATE- fixing my list

• shady grove
• beautiful brown eyes
• i never will marry
• wildwood flower
• cherokee shuffle (no capo)
• all the good times are past and gone
• john henry (dropped d)
• who broke the lock
• where has my little dog gone
• careless love
• bury me beneath the willow (1)
• bury me beneath the willow (2)
• john hardy
• sally goodin
• billy in the lowground

Quicklink: Mandozine's TablEdit FAQ

Useful. I am particularly interested in the section about converting from one instrument type to another. Quite often there are tunes transcribed for mando but not for guitar.

UPDATE:
Since I'm doing the linkspam thing, I might as well add this, too: Lessons and informational exercises from http://thepicksf.com.

LATE UPDATE:
Here's a random take on Cripple Creek in A that I found while thrashing wildly about the net.

Quicklink: New Promo on Craigslist || Soldiers Joy Tab

New promotional ad for the jam on craigslist: clicky

Soldier's joy for guitar [warning pdf]: clicky

Quicklink: Ain't No Bugs On Me

Here's a easy and fun little tune. Made famous (as famous as any oldtime song may be in these days) by Garcia and Grisman's "Not for Kids Only".

I'll learn it to sing with the kid, if nothing else. I might make the jammers endure it, too.

TOTALLY IRRELEVANT UPDATE: Here is a great russian folktale that is very appropriate for the transition from the depths of winter into spring. For a good fifteen minutes of family time, tell the Snow Maiden story and THEN play Ain't No Bugs on Me for a mood-lifter.

UPDATEx2 NOW WITH EVEN MORE IRRELEVANT: I'm going to use this blag as my own bookmarking thing, because I can. Check out 'song of the day'. Teh funay.

Quick Link: Yet Another Old Time Fiddle Tune List

Here is an interesting list of old time and bluegrass fiddle tunes. This list is nice because it includes some lyrics for tunes that often get played without them. The page contains interesting historical information about the tunes as well.

No tabs, though, and not guitar-specific.

Quick Link: Jack Tuttle's Guitar Lesson Mp3s

Here is a winamp playlist containing links to all of the mp3s from Jack's guitar books that he has posted to his site: tuttle_online.m3u

Am I too retro, still using winamp (v5.08c baby!)?

Quick Link: Right Hand Technique for Guitar

Here's a good vid on how to improve your right hand technique on flatpick guitar. Vid by Brad Davis. He's pretty damned good.

Oh, and here's a take on Blue Night which is pretty straight forward for beginners.

EDIT: damn, that crap is difficult

EDITx2: Another fairly simple bluegrass lead: Roll On Buddy, and Roll On Buddy variation #2

Quick Link: The Mother-Lode of Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Guitar

All I have to say is holy crap.

I haven't looked at all of them yet, but I'm drooling in anticipation.

EDIT: This is also pretty sweet, and has a wider variety of instrument types...

EDITx2: Even more tab. Good god. Its a good thing I've got some time left on earth to learn all of this.

EDITx3: Sheesh. Those are ASCII, though. New Years resolution: learn 5 new tunes a month.

Quick Link: Temperance Reel Tab for Guitar

Here are a couple of takes on the old Irish reel:

Temperance Reel #1 [PDF]

Temperance Reel #2 [PDF]

There are also a number of tabs of this tune available out there on the net - clicky

I like this tune a lot, but no surprise there: I'm a sucker for Em.

Quick Link: Guitar Chord Drills

For all you aspiring pickers out there, here are some chord drills in the major keys to keep you busy: linky [.doc]