"Don't Go Riding Down That Old Texas Trail" Lesson
Added 2022-06-17 15:00:07 +0000 UTCI learned "Don't Go Riding Down That Old Texas Trail" (gDGBD) from a recording of Lawrence Eller (banjo & vocals), Vaughn Eller (guitar), and Ross Brown (fiddle).
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I will order a book thank you, I am also going to try it in that tuning you mentioned, awesome! In standard I have made it through most of the beginning but I wasnβt happy with it honestly. Thatβs rad you figured that one out, Iβd be glad to hear you play it some day. Such a cool unique piece of music
DYLAN DOWD
2022-06-23 12:01:52 +0000 UTCI sat down years ago and figured out this song in ~ gDGBD. I encourage you to purchase a banjo chord book; this will help you come up with the chord shapes used in these old recordings. I have a good one called Banjo Case Chord Book by Larry Sandberg. It's designed to fit in your case, and it has a ton of chord charts in different tunings. FYI a professional banjoist accompanying this song in the 1920s would likely have used gCGBD. As I said, however, I figured it out in gDGBD. It requires a couple of chord shapes not typically found in the pre-war banjo songster tradition.
Clifton Hicks
2022-06-23 11:11:01 +0000 UTCIβve got a question concerning particular songs, I was trying to use the songster method to figure out this old tune by Luke Jordan named cocaine. Itβs got great lyrics repeating here n there but thereβs also a lot of lyrics that sound completely different from the rest. How would one go about figuring out music to such a complicated song?
DYLAN DOWD
2022-06-20 12:56:25 +0000 UTCAnother great one. I need more practice matching the banjo notes to my voice but wonderful stuff as always.
Daniel Pearce
2022-06-19 11:09:36 +0000 UTCthanks a lot clifton
DYLAN DOWD
2022-06-18 00:00:25 +0000 UTCfirst heard this one in your video from a few years ago when you were on the porch. Liked it ever since.
josh waller
2022-06-17 23:57:30 +0000 UTCanother great one Clifton!
josh waller
2022-06-17 23:57:04 +0000 UTCThanks for the lesson!
PHIL
2022-06-17 17:28:41 +0000 UTC
