![]() Earlier posts can be found at the following links.ġ Mother’s Guitar on the Builder’s Bench: Beginningsģ. This is the fourth post about this instrument. He sent the following photos showing the instrument essentially complete and almost ready to ship to Arkansas. In February, with frets firmly installed, Clayton Pledger tuned the guitar and let it “settle in” for a while as he checked the function and tone of the instrument. I think she’d be pleased to see her gift motivating me to continue my musical learning. Mother set the example as a lifelong learner. When I pass this instrument down to a grandson someday, he or another family member can take on the fretboard challenge. Watching my Pledger Guitar take shape has been fascinating, but nothing excited me quite like seeing the fretboard construction, knowing I’ll spend the rest of my life exploring that challenging landscape. Frets continue to be a challenging precess, but I’m encouraged with progress, and the fun increases as skills grow. His degree was music and guitar, so he’s helping me explore all that virgin territory up the guitar’s neck while relating it to what I know about music and past keyboard percussion experience. I found a great teacher, Randy Soller in Fayetteville, and we do distance lessons using Facetime. When I retired from education, I decided it was time to grab my 1991 Yamaha guitar and try again. It seems appropriate that another definition for the word fret is “to cause or suffer emotional strain” because the frets of a guitar can be intimidating. While looking at the neck of his guitar, John Prine said, “Most of this is virgin territory.” I could relate. Years later, while teaching elementary music, I picked up the guitar again and strummed some chords while the kids sang, but never got out of the first position on the fretboard. Drumming became my focus, so guitar fell by the wayside. I strummed a few chords while in high school and figured out the introduction to Fire and Rain by James Taylor. If you’re interested in learning more about mandolin, jamming, and music theory, you can reach me for Personal Coaching here and subscribe to be notified when I post new free lessons and song breakdowns below.Fretboard and a chart showing corresponding notesĪs a teenager, I found a guitar at Bill’s Pawn Shop in El Dorado, Arkansas. It really helps me keep things going here! ![]() If you like this content, consider donating to my site. Whiskey Before Breakfast in D – Chords & Lyrics (for the sheet music Fiddle Tune click here)ĭid I miss your favorite tune? If so, please let me know!!.Whiskey in the Jar in C (a la Pizza Tapes).Up on the Hill Where They Do Do The Boogie.There’s More Pretty Girls Than One in C.That’s what I Like About the South in F.Nine Pound Hammer in A (Tony Rice version).My Walkin’ Shoes Don’t Fit Me Anymore in C.Make Me Down a Pallet On Your Floor in C.He really wrings the notes out of his guitar, and his ear for harmony should be etched into stained glass. The Night Before, Restless Heart, Beatles Cover, B 6/10. I’ll Go Stepping Too in Bb (original Flatts / Scruggs key) Wayside Back In Time Chords 'Wichita' and 'Orphan Girl'.Girl I Left Behind Me Nashville Numbering.Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky in G.Dig a Hole in the Meadow / Darlin Corey.Cluck Old Hen in A (for sheet music see Cluck Old Hen Fiddle and Mandolin).Church Street Blues in Eb (standard Tony Rice key).Angeline The Baker in D (for sheet music see Angeline the Baker – Mandolin and Fiddle).Chords Barroom Girls Rate song The New Year, Parachute, Ab 3/10. PJ Harvey was a spectacle in the early 90s as a young woman writing openly about her sexuality. All Good Times Are Passed and Gone in G Wayside Back In Time Gillian Welch Chords.Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone in Bb.Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone in G.Also, if you are new to bluegrass jams, check out the Jam Etiquette page. If I’m missing a song you love and/or would like to have a chart for, please let me know. You’ll pay the same, but I’ll get a little referral payment which helps my site. If you don’t have Strum Machine, use this link to sign up. Need a backing track? Check out the backing track collection on Strum Machine here. You can subscribe for notifications of new breakdowns at the bottom of the page too! Also, check out my Weekly Mandolin Sheet Music and Song Breakdown posts for detailed notes on many of these tunes. Fair warning, there are a few potential “jam busters” on this list, so use your judgement on tunes you call. Some of these are a little more common than others. Huck Finn Bluegrass Festival Late Night jamingīelow are Bluegrass jam chord charts and lyrics for popular (and not so popular) songs and fiddle tunes.
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