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Here are five (5) different tabs by Old Woodchuck for the Old Time fiddle tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast", each presented in a different style:
Whiskey Before Breakfast in 5 styles:
Bare Breakdown Style - TEF
Breakdown Style - TEF
Chord Style - TEF
Contradance or Melodic - TEF
Wade Ward/Kyle Creed Influenced - TEF
Next, Old Woodchuck has tabbed out 6 tunes in F tuning (f CFCD):
Barlow Knife - TEF
Flying Indian - TEF
Last Chance - TEF
Possum On A Rail - TEF
Sandy River Belle - TEF
Roustabout - TEF
and one in A modal:
Twin Sisters - TEF
And, finally, he presents you with 5 exercises for the fretting hand's little (or Pinky) finger. Exercise 5 is sometimes referred to as "The Chord of Death" and presents a challenge.
(Old Woodchuck has discovered a discrepancy with the finger notation in several of the exercises he has developed. When indicating which left-hand finger to use, the 3rd finger (the Ring finger) has been indicated by either the letter R (for Ring) or A (for Annulus). These notations are both correct, but might confuse anybody not aware that they are the same finger.)
1. Introduction and Banjo-less (Tabletop) Exercises - PE-1
2. Vertical Exercises (Working up and down the neck) - PE-2
3. Horizontal Exercises (Working across the strings) - PE-3
4. Finger Stretches (Increasing your reach) - PE-4
5. The Chord of Death! And a 3-finger challenge - PE-5
Here are five (5) different tabs by Old Woodchuck for the Old Time fiddle tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast", each presented in a different style:
Whiskey Before Breakfast in 5 styles:
Bare Breakdown Style - TEF
Breakdown Style - TEF
Chord Style - TEF
Contradance or Melodic - TEF
Wade Ward/Kyle Creed Influenced - TEF
Next, Old Woodchuck has tabbed out 6 tunes in F tuning (f CFCD):
Barlow Knife - TEF
Flying Indian - TEF
Last Chance - TEF
Possum On A Rail - TEF
Sandy River Belle - TEF
Roustabout - TEF
and one in A modal:
Twin Sisters - TEF
And, finally, he presents you with 5 exercises for the fretting hand's little (or Pinky) finger. Exercise 5 is sometimes referred to as "The Chord of Death" and presents a challenge.
(Old Woodchuck has discovered a discrepancy with the finger notation in several of the exercises he has developed. When indicating which left-hand finger to use, the 3rd finger (the Ring finger) has been indicated by either the letter R (for Ring) or A (for Annulus). These notations are both correct, but might confuse anybody not aware that they are the same finger.)
1. Introduction and Banjo-less (Tabletop) Exercises - PE-1
2. Vertical Exercises (Working up and down the neck) - PE-2
3. Horizontal Exercises (Working across the strings) - PE-3
4. Finger Stretches (Increasing your reach) - PE-4
5. The Chord of Death! And a 3-finger challenge - PE-5