Traditional folk, Old time and Bluegrass transcriptions
Here is a slightly embellished version of Salt Creek. The melody is the foundation. Think double-stops and arpeggios when picking this one out. More…
Traditional Folk tune from earlier than 1909. Its original author is unknown. The first recorded mention of the song was in 1909 in Henry Marvin Belden's 1909 compilation Ballads and Songs Collected by… More…
A major in a lower register and dressing up the melody a bit w/ 16th notes. More…
Simple worried man blues melody. Our second step into internalizing a melody so we can embellish it and make it our own, is to "Groove" it. We fill in the empty spaces to make it groove. Reminder, use… More…
Old Joe Clark bare melody in A major. This tune was written by a real person named Joesph Clark, a Kentucky mountaineer who was born in 1839 and murdered in 1885. The "playful and sometimes outlandish… More…