joeh4232 - Posted - 07/11/2010:  14:01:57

I have just been playing about a year and I got some tab music from jay buckey but I dont know what note the 5 is in his tab sheet wild hog in the woods. Is the 5 a 5th positon or something like that? Anybody please help..

UsuallyPickin - Posted - 07/11/2010:  15:21:13

Well I looked at the Jay Buckey free Fiddle Tab rendition and saw no 5's just 0 1 2 3 & 4 .....there were some 5'son the mandolin tab sheet ..... Fiddle Tab the number is the finger... mandolin tab the number is the fret.... Check and see which version you downloaded... Enjoy Fiddle is a forever fascination..... R/

Mandogryl - Posted - 07/11/2010:  17:00:12

UsuallyPickin is right. If mandolin frets, the 5 would be either C, G, D, or A, depending on which string you are on.
Only four fingers used in fiddle, that I know of. Five in cello, though.
But I don't do tab, so maybe I am missing something.

nallycat - Posted - 07/11/2010:  17:24:07

I have been using tab for the past 4 years and I agree with Mandogryl and UsuallyPickin that the music you have is for mandolin. If you have the program tabledit you can convert mandolin tab to fiddle, easier if you have it in ABC though. Fiddle tab uses the first position for the first three fingers and the use of the number four would be the pinkey. If you slide to other positions the tab would indicate this typed above the score.

Fiddlepiper - Posted - 07/12/2010:  00:36:36

Joe, no 5 for Jay Buckey's fiddle tab on Wild Hog. The mando tab has a 5 which is the 5th fret on the G string which is the note D, and a 5th fret D on A.

Edited by - Fiddlepiper on 07/14/2010 00:06:07

DougD - Posted - 07/12/2010:  02:30:04

Fiddlepiper, I think you mean that the 5th fret on the G string is the note C.

joeh4232 - Posted - 07/12/2010:  11:43:06

Hey thanks to everyone. I guess i need fiddle version and get away from the mandolin tab..

Fiddlepiper - Posted - 07/14/2010:  00:03:16

Yelp you're right Doug..the 5th on G is a C. Thanks for the correction. I had to get my mando out and play the intro of Wildwood Flower up to that C.

ladymuse - Posted - 08/10/2010:  15:11:55

Good thing when using tabbed mando/ fiddle music -
Wrote a few fiddle tunes in tab, using mando tab - because it shows the 1/2 steps or fret positions -
(which come in handy when you are noting the difference between F natural and 5 #, etc)
Mando tab is great, - as long as you remember that you need to think in half step finger positions -
It will always tell you the fret -

ladymuse