If you get in trouble with the timing on this song, just look at the measure you are dealing with and count to 4 with your foot and consider the beats associated with the 1/4 and 1/8th notes. So we can count this measure as follows.1 2and 3and 4and. Then the last two notes in the measure are eight notes as well (4 and) when your foot comes off the floor again. Again those two eight notes played one after another has a count of 1. The next two eight notes ( 3 and) is when your foot hits the floor again. One beat associated with playing those two eight notes one after the other.( this is the count of 2 and) when our foot comes off the floor. the first eight note has 1/2 associated with it as well the second eight note. The flags on these two notes are tied together in sheet music to make them look nicer on paper. Now look at the next two notes, those next two notes are eight notes. (that is the count of 1 as your foot hits the floor). That quarter note has one beat associated with it.
Remember the series on ryhthm and counting. The first note in that second measure is a quarter note. Look at the second measure, the one with the red number 2 above it. we are using that all important 4/4 time. If you look at the sheet music you will see that each measure has four beats associated with it, because. You will see in the sheet music that the whole song consists of quarter notes and eight notes. Its quite simple, it just goes back to ryhthm and counting series involving the beat associated with the four notes we went over. I will discuss rests used in sheet music in the near future. I want to have the sheet music there as well in case you have difficultly in the timings of things I am going to present to you.ĭon't be concerned with the first measure of lead in notes in the sheet music.(the measures are numbered in red ) because that first measure involves rests. You will also notice that the sheet music is available above the Tablature as well. Remember, you don't have to be able to read tab to become proficient on the Banjo, I am just giving you another resource for those of you who would like to learn from tab as well. You can leave them in, or leave them out, just be aware of the timing coming in and out of your soloing using the lead in notes or if you desire to leave them out.įor those of you who would like to use tablature, I have tabbed out this song for you as well. These lead in notes can be left out of this song once you begin to play this song over the guitar track. The Pinch and then the thumb picking the fourth string in the first part of this video are lead in notes. Let me start off by talking about the lead in notes. With the renewed interest in the Carter Family, it seemed like a great time for Carter Family Tunes Arranged for the Fretted Dulcimer.We are going to get into taking this song apart in this video. Scott has a three-step method for creating bluegrass solos to songs, which you’ll learn in this lesson, using Ralph Stanley’s version of the folk classic Worried Man Blues. I imagine many of the old tunes collected by the original Carter family were written and played on the mountain dulcimer in the holders and mountains of Appalachia. If you travel to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, you'll find great information about the Carter Family who were discovered there along with Jimmie Rodgers at the historic 1927 "Bristol Sessions."Īt the same museum, you'll also see the Mountain Dulcimer made for Mother Maybelle Carter by legendary dulcimer builder Bob Mize. Carter, sitting on Sara's right, looks at the camera. She is looking towards her cousin Maybelle Carter, on her left, who is playing a guitar.
Sara Carter is in the center holding an autoharp. The front cover shows a dark brown wood frame containing a sepia photograph of the Carter Family sitting at the front bumper of an old car.