Since I've been posting videos of pieces from the Songbook, I wanted to remind you about one from a couple of years ago. I'll be doing another one of this tune on the 10-string at home soon.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0tUSqPR32k[/youtube]

The introduction isn't in the book, because it would make the tune too hard, but I'll try to put together a StaffTab chart for that and post it, too for the more adventurous among you.

Hi Greg, thanks for posting and reposting, sometimes reminders help us stay awake

This piece is on the twelve string and yet your newer post and the anticipated
new performance of this tune is to be on a ten...

Any thoughts on composing and playing on different instruments or at a certain level does it becomes second
nature, on whatever you play?

Hi JRJ,

I would mainly want to post a new video on a 10-string because the piece was written on one, and the tunes in the Songbook work on both 10 and 12-string instruments.

As Emmett would tell you, 10 strings is plenty! I know most of the more experienced players switched over to 12-string instruments when they became available, but I took a long time to get there, and the 10-string still feels like "home" to me.

I believe the instinct of players who come from a guitar background is to want more notes from a given fret position, rather than moving their hands around the board to get to those notes. Coming from a keyboard background, I didn't have this preference, so I have no problem with 10-strings.

If I wasn't writing instructional materials for players with all sorts of tunings, and teaching students on Classic 10 and MR instruments, I would probably still be mostly playing a 10-string instrument (and trying to convince them all to switch to Baritone Melody tuning!).

But I do love that #9 shape and its neighboring 13th shape, that can be played with just one hand only on 6 strings, if you have a high bass 4th:



I use these a lot in my newer blues-based compositions, since I started paying the Grand few years ago...

I do think it's easier to see interval shapes and patterns on groups of 5 strings, but that could just be because that's what I'm used to.

So that's sort of an answer

Very cool. I am working on this tune now, I actually read through the whole tune from the songbook tonight! Woo! But I want to learn the intro. Any way I can get the score for the intro, or do I have to transcribe it myself...? lol lemme know...

meh, I figured out myself. lol