CBG Tabs

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Comment by BrianQ. on February 23, 2013 at 11:07pm

For such a big group there's not a whole lot of action goin

 on here? is anybody home? echo echo echo echo, etc.

Comment by OldNick on December 8, 2012 at 9:43am

Redbelly, if you want to create tabs from sheet music,  download Tux Guitar.  Copy the notes from the sheet music into Tux, and it will automatically generate the tab.

http://free-tux-download.com/tuxguitar/

Comment by Ian MC Donald on December 8, 2012 at 5:02am

Sorry I hit the send button as follows open g then from fret one g sharp ,A A SHARP B,C,C SHARP ,D,D SHARP ,E,F,G THAT G IS AT THE TWELTH FRET THEN REPEAT 13 fret G SHARP AND SO ON D IS D SHARP ,E,F,F SHARP,G,G SHARP,A,A SHARP,B,C,C SHARP,D AND SO ON , GENERALLY IN MUSIC TERMS GOING UP THE NOTES ARE SHARP COMING DOWN THEY ARE FLAT FOR EXAMPLE A SHARP WOULD BE B FLAT C SHARP WOULD BE D FLAT , JUST WATCH THAT IN MUSIC TABS OR STANDARD NOTATION,,HOPE THAT HELPS

Comment by Ian MC Donald on December 8, 2012 at 4:56am

Hi Redbelly,
Just go to guitar pro.com you can download a free trial version it shows the guitar fretboard and all strings if you click on the string at various frets it tells you the note ,remember you have your bass g and your melody octave g and d in the middle so from both g strings the notes are as follows counting from fret one g

Comment by Redbelly on December 8, 2012 at 4:43am

I require melody initially of well-known popular songs e.g. Amazing Grace. I would be happy if someone could explain how to construct tabs from sheet music and a note plan for a fret board tuned GDg. I am pretty sure I can construct a fret board plan but the sheet music is foreign.Then I could do it without worrying anyone or if the music is public domain or not. I then could publish a small book myself to give away. I am lucky that I have a good teacher but I would like to do that bit extra. I found a good web site for old free songs. The song is played and the words and sheet music displayed. Follow this link http://www.janwolters.nl/index-uk.html

Comment by frank tennyson on December 8, 2012 at 2:06am

Redbelly do you want to play melody or chord? I am new to this myself. Learning to play guitar and new to tabs. I went to where they sell scrapbook supplies and bought small letter size stick on alphebets. I tune GDG so I marked the neck "fret" lines on the top of the neck. This shows me the chord for each fret and the note for each fret on the "g" strings. I placed the fret letter under the "d" string on the neck directly under the string . As I read music (c, d, e, f, g and so forth) if I can locat sheet music online this allows me to pick out the melody without tabs as such. I can also easily figure out the chords as chords are the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of a chromatic scale. Do not know if that helps but hope so.

Comment by wormil on December 7, 2012 at 12:59am

Redbelly, here are some tabs on the web:

http://www.everythingdulcimer.com/tab/

http://sniff.numachi.com/

http://www.strumstick.com/html_pages/Songoftheweek.htm

http://www.strumstick.com/html_pages/sssongpagetoc.html

Comment by Redbelly on December 6, 2012 at 9:30pm

I have asked this question elsewhere.

1 Is there a book of 3 string CBG tabs for beginners?

2 If not how do I go about doing simple tabs for such songs such as Amazing Grace and Goodnight Irene and the like.

I do not have the time to go back over all the previos posts even though I would love to.

Thanks

Comment by Thomas Petry on October 14, 2012 at 11:56pm

No confusion at all RM. That's why I build my CBGs fretless. Although I will admit I fret my canjos diatonic and I am considering building a bass diddley bow and I guess that could possibly be thought of as diabolic. :)>

Comment by Rand Moore on October 14, 2012 at 10:01pm

When you look at the diagram below (the one which maps the diatonic frets to the chromatic), you will notice that the diatonic fretboard often has one or two "accidentals" which we call "fret 6½" and "fret 13½", with the later more frequently found on mountain dulcimers (seldom on stick dulcimers).

The 6½ fret was added back in the 1940s to mountain dulcimers to allow DAD tuned instruments to be played either in its native Mixolydian mode or in the more popular Ionian mode which most of us know as the Major scale. The only difference between Mixolydian and Ionian modes is that the 7th note is flat by one semitone compared to the Major scale. The Major scale selects the 7 notes it uses from the 12 notes of the chromatic scale according to the pattern (of whole and half steps) "w-w-h-w-w-w-h" while the Mixolydian mode (scale) selects its 7 notes from the chromatic scale according to the pattern ow "w-w-h-w-w-h-w". So, for the D Major scale, the notes are D-E-F#-G-A-B-C#-(D'), which is the Ionian mode. But, the D scale in Mixolydian mode uses the notes D-E-F#-G-A-B-C-(D'), where the seventh note is a "C", not a "C#", so it's flattened by one semitone. When you map these notes to the diatonic fretboard (tuned to D), the 6th fret above the nut is "C", and the 7th fret, which has traditionally been called "fret 6½", is "C#".

"Modes" are associated with the diatonic scale because diatonic scales are subsets of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale. So, there are a "bunch" of modes that exist simply as predefined sets of notes with a name attached so musicians can talk about them. Fortunately, many of these modes are rarely used, and in my opinion, you can get by with just the two mentioned above. Try not to let modes confuse you. We're just talking about a one note difference between the Mixolydian and the Ionian (Major scale) modes. If you are uncertain when transcribing or transposing music, just put a "6" wherever that "bothersome note" should be, then when you play the song, you can usually hear the difference and decide whether the note should be natural or sharp. For a particular piece of music, all the "bothersome notes" will be the throughout the song. You can then go back and mark the "6" notes with "½" should they have turned out to be using Ionian mode (Major scale). Also, in diatonic tabs for dulcimers, "fret 6½" is often indicated by "6*" or "6+" using an asterisk mark or a plus sign instead of the "½" character.

Now that I totally confused you, I'll be on my way...

-Rand.

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