![]() But, you’ll find all three versions in the download.Ĭowboy print on a handbag (- watercolor by Jani Freimann)īill Cheatham is another popular old-time fiddle tune. To save space, I’ve only included an image of the first version below. I’m recording it on my phone and the furnace keeps cutting in. I apologize in advance for the sound file. Just for fun, the third version is played an octave higher and moves up the neck for a few bars. The first two are very similar to each other, with some slight variations in the second. I’ve tabbed out 3 slightly different versions. As a result, with emphasis on the 1st and 4th beat, you can get the feel for that marching rhythm. The following setting is in the key of G Major, with a 6/8 time signature (count 6 beats per measure). This tune has been recorded by many different artists over the years. With a change of lyrics, the melody was used by some of the New York Regiments during the American Civil War and renamed ‘The New York Volunteer’. It’s an old English folk song that was (and still is) used in several different locales as a marching song. The melody actually comes from another old tune, ‘The Lincolnshire Poacher’. ![]() ![]() Today, California is the most populated state in the U.S.A. As a result, towns flourished all across the U.S., and travel ’off to California” was now cheaper, faster and much safer. On May 10th, 1869, the two railways had met, and the last spike was driven into the rail line at Promontory, Utah. Ten years later, they contracted the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Central Pacific railroad to build the ‘ Transcontinental Railway‘.Īfter the end of the civil war in 1865, there was a big push to finish the railway and join the country together. Sometime in 1853, Congress appropriated funds to survey, and establish routes that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Congress rushed to incorporate California into the Union. As a result, the population increased 1000-fold and, though it wasn’t even a Territory yet, U.S. Off to California Slowerĭuring the ‘ California gold rush‘, it’s estimated that over 130,000 people entered over the California Trail, and even more arrived by sea. The second version is slowed down a little, with a bit of a bounce. “Off to California” is in the key of G Major, and I’ve tabbed it out in 4/4 timing (without dotted notes). But sometimes, I just end up playing the hornpipe more like a reel. I’ll usually tab out a hornpipe without the dotted notes, then put the lilt and emphasis in wherever I want. You, of course, will play it how you like! Ta Da, Ta Da, Ta Da, Ta Da… I like the bounce to be a little less pronounced, but that’s just my opinion. I sometimes find that sounds a little static, or a little much, like. Hornpipes are supposed to have a little ‘lilt’, or a ‘bounce’ to them, and that’s often written with dotted quarter notes. If you look at those settings you’ll notice the dotted quarter notes. There are two settings in that publication (#1628 and #1629). The tune is one of many melodies collected by Francis O’Neill and later published in “ O’Neill’s Music of Ireland“. A lite version (TEFpad) is available for iOS and Android.“Off to California” is a traditional Irish hornpipe. Through ongoing consultation with experts on other instruments, TablEdit has developed support for hammered and mountain dulcimer, harmonica, diatonic button accordion, chromatic accordion, anglo-irish concertina, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, xaphoon, native american flute, autoharp, pedal steel guitar, arabic oud… TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin, bass and banjo (even taking into consideration the special aspect of the fifth string).Īdditionally, TablEdit, while designed for guitarists, by guitarists, is not limited to fretted instruments like other tablature programs. Over the last nine years I have been studying banjo I have lost count of how many times a Nubie has asked this question over on the Banjo Hangout. It helps you with your timing and as an aid to help you increase your playing speed as you develop your playing skills. The beauty of TablEdit/TefView is you can actually hear and see the TAB, use it as an aid to help you learn to play your instrument. It’s an excellent tool to assist you learn to read and listen to TAB in the form of a Tef File.īen creates TABs in both TEF and PDF Files for pretty much every lesson. Whether your instrument of choice is Banjo, Guitar or Mandolin or all three I would encourage you to purchase TablEdit. Next to joining Banjo Ben as a Life Member this has to be the second best investment I have made in my quest to learn to play the banjo…
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