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carlb - Posted - 12/13/2021: 09:50:39
Spurred on by the recent conversations in the post
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I decided to work out J.P. Fraley's “Wild Rose of the Mountain” as a clawhammer banjo tune in aEAc#e
While I don't think that I'll write a tab for it, I will give a few hints on how I arrived at some of the phrases. I did play along with JP's fiddling and also consulted the Milliner-Koken collection.
First of all, all of the high A notes, save one, are played on the 5th string. The only one not played on the 5th string is the second A in the second phrase of the first part. The tune starts with a Galax lick (i.e. sort of a roll to two pulls of the 5th string) but on the second phrase only the first A is played on the 5th string and the second is on the fifth fret of the first string followed by a drop thumb to the fifth fret of the 2nd string. In general, my fingers spend a lot of time on the third fret of the 1st string and the fifth fret of the 2nd string (while equivalent to the second fret of the 1st string, I never play that).
The first number of notes in the second part are an octave higher than the fiddle. The hand position, I mentioned above, i.e. third fret on 1st string and fifth fret on 2nd string, is used a lot.
I leave it to those, interested in creating your own setting, with the hope that my hints might aid you in that task.
Edited by - carlb on 12/17/2021 07:07:16
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