Saturday, October 8, 2016

October Songs

I know Dave wanted to cover Flatt and Scruggs as our Pioneer Bluegrass Band this month, so all covers of the progressions are Flatt and Scruggs except for Progression #8, that would be sac religious. The songs for October are:

Progression 1- Your Love is Like a Flower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtY4rB4YoVk
Progression 2- Someday We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNvmyTpOiE
Progression 3- Crawdad Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EinAwyQ3Xc
Progression 4- Paul and Silas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeNQTt_87o
Progression 5- Before I Met You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5xCexcjBM
Progression 6- Worried Man Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WzNpzifJHg
Progression 7- Can't You Hear Me Callin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_H0y92QQ3Q

enjoy
Jeff

Monday, August 22, 2016

Septembers Songs and links

Here are links to this months songs for lyrics. This is the seventh Blog post I've posted in the last three days. To see the others, go to the main Blog page ad scroll down. Click on the title you'd like to read.

1) Bury me beneath the willow
2) Blueridge cabin home
3) Mama Don't allow
4) Mountain Dew
5) Jesse James
6) Rocky Road Blues
7) you are my sunshine
Pioneer songs-Bill Monroe
Uncle Penn
My little Georgia Rose

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Gold Rush tabs and tracks for all instruments

Jackpot! I found a free site which has the tabs for all instruments, including Dobro and Fiddle and also has backing tracks for all instruments from beginner to slow jam to performance speed.
Here's the tabs, click on Tabs, then Gold Rush and you'll get a drop down menus for instrument
http://bluegrasscollege.org/
To get the backing tracks, from the home page same site, click on lessons, Gold Rush, drop down will give you the speeds
There is no reason not to get this song down pat, let's do it good!

Another Gold Rush backing track

Here is another backing track link. This one is different in that it has about 10 different speeds you can use.
http://flatpickapprentice.blogspot.com/2010/11/gold-rush.html

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Uncle Pen Fiddle lesson and tab and performance

Our two songs for September are Bill Monroe tunes, Uncle Pen and My Little Georgia Rose. My Little Georgia Rose is in our Parking lot Pickers Book, I'll concentrate on giving info to Uncle Pen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS0yj6WFQQc link to Fiddle lesson; this guy is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZkFx3e1xlY  Ricky Skaggs version

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/monroe-bill/uncle-pen-3216.html Tab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LReQdH-uzDU&list=RDLReQdH-uzDU My Little Georgia Rose Ricky Skaggs and Travis Tritt version

Gold Rush Backing Track

Here is a link to a backing track for you to play along with

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gold+rush+backing+track&view=detail&mid=3B1B34829A997C2A4F853B1B34829A997C2A4F85&FORM=VIRE