I highly recommend checking out the entire album, it's brilliant!īenjamin Wade Ward was born near Saddle Creek, Virginia on October 15, 1892. The first was Fred Cockerham's "Fortune," and the second tune was Wade Ward's "Shady Grove." Scroll down just a little bit more to listen to the latter. As a teenager, I learned my first two banjo pieces off of it. The collection features an amazing cast of ballad singers and banjo pickers from Virginia and North Carolina. Notes: I was introduced to Wade Ward's masterful banjo playing on John Cohen's album High Atmosphere. Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Sawmill (gDGCD) Difficulty: Intermediate I consider it an advanced intermediate arrangement, but if you're comfortable with melodic licks up the neck - or even if you aren't - give it a try. If you're familiar with my Mel Bay book, "Bluegrass Banjo from All Sides", this tune falls between level B and level C. I offer this break in the spirit of Bill Keith.
The melody notes are highlighted in the tab, so you can focus on those, but listen to the tab before you start playing it to get a good idea of how the melody pops out of these unusual left hand positions and right hand rolls. My favorites are the beginning of the B part, from measure 17 through 19, and the descending D chord arpeggio in measure 9. Some of the left hand positions are unusual and fun to play. Since the whole break takes place above the seventh fret, even radical left hand movements aren't actually that big, so the arrangement is easier to play than it first seems. The open notes, besides being integral to the melody, also give the player time to move from one left hand position to the next. The arrangement turns out to be a great lesson in mixing notes fretted on high frets of low strings with open string notes on the first and second strings.
My goal was to keep the melody of the tune and the feel of Bill Keith's classic break, just an octave higher. One of my students expressed an interest in doing an octave break, and I had a lot of fun putting this together with him. Notes: I always teach Santa Claus around this time of year, even though the tune has nothing to do with the season - it's named after the town of Santa Claus, Indiana.
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Posted by waystation, updated: - 5 Member Commentsĭownload: TABLEDIT | MP3: - Download from Either it's a soft drink, or it's a pickled sausage, or it's something else altogether. As to the perennial question "What is a salty dog anyway?", I will stay out of this one. Perhaps the simplest answer is to think of E augmented. As to the melody of Salty Dog, you might ask what a C note is doing in an E chord. If you haven't heard the album, you should grab a copy to hear marvelous banjoistics by a young Bill Keith. The second break starts with a semi-melodic segment reminiscent of Allen Shelton's wonderful break on the recording of the song by Jim and Jesse, and the second segment incorporates elements (but is not a faithful copy) of Bill Keith's jaw-dropping break on his album "Living on the Mountain" with Jim Rooney, released in 1964 or thereabouts. The first break is in pretty straight Scruggs style, with a down-the-neck and then an up-the-neck segment.
Notes: My version of Salty Dog comprises two breaks, each with two parts. Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
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