Guitar magazine for more information about eldon shamblin and western swing rhythm guitar. Recently completed after 3 12 years work, it is an 80k word narrative that follows the leading edge of style development of the steel guitar in western swing. Western swing learn to flatpick the guitar and play. Product cost lessons instructors instructor help new lessons return policy. The first ten who email me will recieve a ticket to enter the raffle for the new 2010 chevy truck. Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and. The ranger doug book has a chart of freddie greentype chord shapes for playing swing rhythm. Scotty anderson red hot guitar pdf scotty anderson is a true master of the telecaster with an incredible personal style that he demonstrates on this disc. Its a great time to upgrade your home music studio gear with the largest selection at. I just checked my calendar and i see that cow bop is performing at viva cantina in burbank 918. Many of the early western swing bands featured a tenor banjo in their lineup and some kept the instrument long after most swing and jazz bands had replaced rhythm banjo with guitar. The swing guitar sound is instantly recognizable and owes more to the swing and jazz world than it does folk music. Roly poly transcription bob wills and the texas playboys intro and guitar solo standard notation and tab september 16, 2014 guitar, tab, transcription, western swing guitarninja this is the intro, for two guitars and solo for roly poly, by bob wills and the texas playboys. Each lesson includes a video and a pdf in tabstandard notation of the examples i work through.
Most of the hot thillbilly string bands have had elements of all three. Western swing is a great format for this because it combines, blues, jazz, and country and creates techniques that can be applied to any of those styles. It was the souths answer to bigband music, minus the horn section. We received a lot of great feedback from subscribers who loved all of the rhythm examples. Rhythm guitar like the western swing masters get full access. Nov 22, 2011 western swing has always been widely considered a subgenre of country music, but ive never understood why it doesnt get included in the jazz lineage. Apparently, you couldnt buy a trumpet in texas in the 20s.
Ill explain where the notes come from so that you can understand how to improvise in this style. To solidify your rhythm playing, ray dissects eldon shamblins traveling basschord lines and freddie greens comping and. Western swing guitar lessons archives active melody. Classical and fingerstyle guitar home guitar tabs pdf guitar protabs gp5 guestbook pdf files click on any file below to download youtube videos. I urge anyone within horseback distance to saddle up and get there. Underscore instruments guitar, pedal steel procolorwhite 6 foot tappin 2. It consists of a longshort, longshort rhythm pattern in which chords are strummed and sustained on the the 1st and 3rd beats of the measure. Driving an essentially swing mode of performing is a combination of fiddles and steel guitars with piano and brass or reed instruments. At the same time, daron started playing with lanny fiel and the ranch dance fiddle band western swing. Click here to see my 10 part video tutorial for my book, the fretboard, vol. While the song might be a simple oneplayable with only two or three chordsthe western swing gu. Asleep at the wheels ray benson offers straightshooting advice about the famous tunes, techniques and special qualities of this exciting hybrid of country, jazz and blues styles. Around 1998, daron started playing with lucy dean record and jimmy bursons texas in the swing. For any western swing novice on a budget, but with a deep hankering for a superbly sequenced overview of the style, there is the four disc box on the proper label, doughboys, playboys, and cowboys.
The links below will take you to video lessons and pdf files of the lessons which you can view and download. Using only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed after an injury in a fire, reinhardt invented an. Daron missed playing western swing and started playing guitar with jack taylor and the west texas swing band. Django reinhardt free sheet music to download in pdf. The best part of this book is that it doesnt just present you with arrangements to memorize.
This unique rhythm style was developed by eldon shamblin in the 1940s when he was a member of bob wills texas playboys. This will work when the progression contains chord derived from the major scale, i. It arose in the 1930s, merging the influences of cowboy style, hillbilly music, and big band jazz. Friends of glen the glen campbell facebook group 6,540,715 views. The genre developed in oklahoma, texas, and california, and thrived in dance halls throughout the southwest during the 30s and 40s.
If you have ever heard the sound of rhythm guitar in a good western swing band,you may have wondered how the guitarist achieved that unique chordal sound. Volume 16, number 2 januaryfebruary 2012 published bimonthly by. In may 2016, lee was recognized as a hero of western swing by the cowtown society of western music in mineral wells, tx. Western swing is a style of popular music that began in the 1920s in the american southwest among the regions popular western string bands. Western swing started to gain popularity in the 1920s. All these styles can rightfully be called western swing style guitar. Occasionslly we will present new rhythm progression material in the. Western swing is a unique fusion of musical styles and cultures, primarily encompassing country, jazz, blues, swing, and big band. Western swing master joe carr has transcribed the great guitar solos from the bob wills band and other greats and breaks them down note by note into useful licks that can be used to improvise original hot solos.
Choose from western swing sheet music for such popular songs as whiskey lullaby, san antonio rose, and faded love. The two pioneering western swing groups were bob wills and the texas playboys, and milton brown and the musical brownies. Western swing also happens to be a gold mine for lovers of jazz violin. Roly poly transcription guitar ninja how to play guitar. Western swing guitar lesson time jumpers guitar licks wes. The tango banjo was invented sometime between 1910 and 1915. Starting with take me back to tulsa, the material gets progressively more complex with minor swing. Generally, the bass note is played on beats 1 and 3, and are longer in duration than the quick, snappy chord voicings strummed on beats 2 and 4. Take a lead and rhythm guitar class from the maestro of western swing. On record labels his music was referred to as hot string band. Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online banjo teacher.
Country swing and jazz chord progressions telecaster. Below is a link to my dissertation entitled across the south. Western swing guitar guidebook ray nijenhuis truefire. Im really enjoyin this new biab section of the forum and in the true spirit of forum brotherly love im offerin a zip file of some western swing and good ole country tunes that i made to anyone that emails me. The home scale same as the key is sometimes used for the entire progression. Jan 16, 2017 western bling playing at ladybirds in houston, tx. Mel bay if you have ever heard the sound of rhythm guitar in a good western swing band, you may have wondered how the guitarist achieved that unique chordal sound. Western swing lead western swing lead borrows many ideas from jazz.
The music is an amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, and folk, new orleans jazz or dixieland, and blues blended with a jazzy swing. Resonator guitars often mistakenly referred to as steel guitars some models have metal bodies, the acoustic resonator guitar is distinctive in not having a regular soundhole, but a large usually circular plate which conceals the resonator cone. Over the c chord the lick bounces around the bb b7 of c where over the g chord the lick uses the b 3 of g. The music of bob wills by david stricklin different, creative, free al stricklin was working at kfjz radio in fort worth in 1930 when bob wills came to the studio with band mates milton brown and herman arnspiger. Western swing stay all night eldon shamblin style chords. Here you will dig into some western swing licks that will help show you a little different sound. Based in traditional string band music, western swing also incorporated traditional pop melodies, jazz improvisation, blues, and folk, creating a wildly entertaining and eclectic form of american music. In this guitar lesson, youll learn how to spice up your rhythm playing with some jazzy sounding chord substitutes. Sultans of swing dire straits guitar tablature pdf. Bob wills western swing fake book the steel guitar forum. But heres a sample of texas style fiddling with swing guitar. Learn to play western swing guitar by ray benson youtube.
On beats 2 and 4, the left hand lightly mutes the chord before the next chord is. I tried uploading a pdf to this thread but couldnt get it to work. Western swing music often falls into the cracks when the pantheon of american musics is tallied. The western swing version is a twobeat feel and not a swing 44.
Western swing guitar lesson time jumpers guitar licks. He used bass notes and moving chord voicings to create a very important part of the western swing sound. Learning how to get that swing feel will help you stay in the pocket on even the jazziest country rhythm. Sultans of swing is a song by dire straits from the album dire straits. Western swing guitar by not available na, not available na and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
The guitar in western swing holds a particularly important place. In this series of lessons well check out the best players to hear in order to learn the western swing style and the way to play a chord progression using the right techniques and equipment for this style. It was socalled because it was used as a lead instrument in the thenpopular american tango bands. It is ignored by mainstream jazz and often mistakenly lumped with country or even folk music.
A western swing primer by dan smith very fast q 188 ex. Oct 29, 2016 western swing is a unique fusion of musical styles and cultures, primarily encompassing country, jazz, blues, swing, and big band. By september 1932, milton brown had left the doughboys because he was interested in leading his own dance band and playing the kind of music that w. The style features jazz style rhythm chords and a moving bass line. Unlock the secrets of hot takeoff lead guitar as played by the greatest players from the greatest bands. Product cost lessons instructors instructor help new lessons return. Nashville chops and western swing guitar, johnny hiland. The series of video starts off with learning about the three most common chord shapes used in western swing lead guitar, how to navigate and target chord tones, and begin to create swingin lines. More of parkers jazz talents are found on the fine english import label asvliving era cd, western swing.
Western swing style guitar lesson jazz lead ep321 in this weeks guitar lesson, youll learn how to play a western swing jazz style lead over the chord changes. Dix bruce walks the intermediate student through tunes that are fun to play and will get you entry into those swing jams from which you may have previously felt excluded. Repetition is a very common technique in western swing guitar and the second lick is another great example of this. Western swing sheet music and music books at sheet music plus. A few bands, like the light crust doughboys, utilize a banjo for rhythm, but most rely more heavily on drums. Our last issue volume 10, number 2focused on western swing guitar. It is in the style of eldon shamblin, one of joey mckenzies major influences. For some, it is conteststyle fiddle backup on guitar, sometimes called texas sock style. The cone closely resembles an audio loudspeaker, though made from spun. Western swing music is a subgenre of american country music that originated in the late 1920s in the west and south among the regions western string bands. Bring it on down to my house i wonder if you feel the way i do stars and stripes on.
Ive emailed him about getting the zip file but no responsewas afraid maybe he was no longer active here on the forum. Heres a youtube lesson i did on a texas swing chord progression. Each was a sizeable outfit full of horns as well as traditional string instruments. This ragtime style of western swing with a quirky guitar melody will have your foot tappin. This one again highlights one note to exaggerate the differences between c7 and g7. Fred sokolow western swing was born in the 30s and is still going strong. In july, 20, lee was inducted into the wsmss hall of fame in lawton, ok. Print instantly, or sync to our free pc, web and mobile apps. Out of this world if you dig western swing, and even if you dontmr. However, the feel of westernswing rhythm, also known as texas or conteststyle rhythm named for the style of guitar backup played in swing fiddle competitions features more of a basschord approach. You will also learn how to comfortably move uptheneck and back down using slides, open strings, scale runs, harmonized scales, floating licks, and more.
The joe carr books are tailored to western swing and the lead book is the only book that i know of that contains transcriptions of classic lead guitar lines from junior barnard and other greats in this style. Sometimes it is easier to get a concept in your head if you can see it written out. While the song might be a simple oneplayable with only two or three chordsthe western swing guitarist changes chords every two beats, providing a driving and harmonically interesting background for the. Western swing style rhythm progression based on home in san antone this example is based on the progression to home in san antone, a classic western swing song. The style relies heavily on the major scale with a penchant for the sixth and ninth tones. The syncopated western swing guitar rhythm was not born until later.
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