Is it me or is it damn near impossible to use this with staff and tab together? Writing it out is fiddly but doable. The icon with the up and down arrow in the tools that shows after you select some notes should do the same but can't remember if the icon is always there Select the notes, click on the three dots to show the menu. It can export MIDI and also take input via said: However, I don’t see an option to have a staff as well as TAB. It looks like Jam Maestro would be better than Notion for this use. It’d also be nice to hear what I’m arranging with somewhat realistic guitar sounds instead of typical basic midi patches. I now realize I’d probably want to export each “track” to midi so I can share with a collaborator who uses a MacBook and GarageBand. Well, this is not the kind of stuff I usually do so I though it would be easier to arrange it, using an app, first and then learn to play it. I’m thinking Skip James “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” maybe. I need to arrange a melody into old-school blues fingerpicking, maybe in Open Dm or DADGAD tuning. Hardest of all however would be working out how to represent this graphically in the tab.” It would be no easy task, and would require some rethinking on how the sound engine works. “ This is an unlikely implementation at this stage. According the FAQ, it cannot do triplets: But Landreth & Cashdollar produce a beautiful piece of music in this duet -wonderful interplay between the two of them, & they both bring out the song's haunting quality. I must say the idea of an instrumental version of “Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues” first struck me as odd-the words are so starkly beautiful. She is also a frequent guest on Prairie Home Companion. His slide playing is intricate, with a complex left hand technique that employs chords & chord fragments in conjunction with slide work.Ĭindy Cashdollar is one of the best Dobro & steel guitar players on the planet, & in addition to spending time as a member of Asleep at the Wheel, she has backed a number of notable musicians, including Bob Dylan, Leon Redbone, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Butterfield & others. Landreth & Cashdollar are both players of the highest caliber-Landreth was named Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year in 2005 & when not performing as a solo act, he is highly in demand, having played behind John Hiatt, Jimmy Buffett, Buckwheat Zydeco & others. In addition to the original (which you can listen to here, & the version by Chris Thomas King that was featured in O Brother Where Art Thou, there’s also an amazing version by RL Burnside, much altered & containing some harrowing personal experiences (Burnside’s version is here).īut perhaps the most unusual version I came across is an instrumental take on “Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues” by Sonny Landreth & Cindy Cashdollar. On Saturday’s Any Woman’s Blues post about Jo Ann Kelly, I included a video of her gritty & intriguing slide guitar version of Skip James’ “Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues.” As a result I was looking around YouTube for other interesting variations on James’ song. It’s Monday morning again, & time for some blues! I found a really interesting version of a great song, & it will get your day off to a musical start, guaranteed.
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