gedtodd - Posted - 04/26/2011:  02:03:29

Hi all, doe's anyone no where i can find a tab for jp fraley's maysville, or the john hartford version?

many thanks, ged.

Moved from Playing Advice forum - wormbower

Edited by - wormbower on 04/26/2011 21:15:28

ajisai - Posted - 04/26/2011:  02:56:34

I don't know where to find tab, but this transcription (sheet music) helped me when I was trying to figure out what I was hearing on the recording. I LOVE this tune.

abbamoses.com/fiddledo/maysville.pdf

ScottK - Posted - 04/26/2011:  16:29:54

I don't know where to find tab either, but I love this tune too!  I got hooked on it in a jam at Dare to Be Square West in Seattle a couple years ago and subsequently learned it by ear (with a lot of help from Amazing Slow Downer) from the version on The Tallboys' Yeah Buddy CD.   I didn't have J.P. Fraley's Maysville recording at the time, but have since picked it up.  Great CD!

Scott

bsed - Posted - 04/26/2011:  17:52:49

I must have sat in front of my CD player for 250 reps of John Hartford's version of the tune, and I still couldn't catch all (or even many of) his rhythmic nuances!

ajisai - Posted - 04/26/2011:  17:55:54

I have J. P. Fraley's recording and you're right. There's a lifetime of learning there. I have just enough of it that I can enjoy playing it for myself now and again.

Maysville is significant to us. My husband has ancestors buried in a little cemetery there and we visited once . . . I'd like to go back sometime.

bsed - Posted - 04/26/2011:  18:23:14

I took what I could get out of it and I played it at Clifftop, must've been the year or year after that JH died. I understand Molsky was one of the judges that day. I don't think I impressed him.

ajisai - Posted - 04/26/2011:  18:31:01

Hey, but you played it at Clifftop. That's cool!

hendrid - Posted - 04/27/2011:  04:47:37

Found a sheet music version at:  abbamoses.com/fiddledo/fiddlepage