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Permalink Reply by Will King on April 20, 2015 at 4:14am

It may mean that you slide to that note.  0 slide to 2 slide to 3.  Try that and see if it does any thing for the song.

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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on April 21, 2015 at 3:20am

Nope, not slides. Those are minus signs.

This assumes you have chromatic frets like on a guitar. For songs that have minus signs, you can't use the open string as a "zero" fret because the melody includes pitches lower than zero.

For Clementine, pick some fret in the middle of the string and call it your zero fret. Then for "-5" move 5 frets lower than the zero fret. for "4" move to 4 frets higher than the zero fret. etc., etc.

To be honest, I've never seen it done this way (and it won't work if you have dulcimer-style diatonic frets), but all music notation systems are just coded systems for writing down the pitches. I guess one system is as good as another if you can decode it.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on May 13, 2015 at 12:34pm

I was looking for tabs for diddley bow and came across this. Not a ton there but some cool ones.

http://didgeridoo4u.com/media/Diddley%20Bow%20Riffs.pdf

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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on May 14, 2015 at 7:24am

Scary selection of titles, but, at least on the tunes I know, they look to be correct.

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