Dear all,

I have added some more tabs to the files sections. The first is a
re-scan of Babs after I did some more minor corrections. The second is
an all new transcription of The Golden Shamrock that comes in two
parts for reasons that only my computer can explain. The third is a
tab of Venus in Cancer from the album of the same name. The fourth is
a tab of Kowaka D'Amour from the same album. The last two have been
the least thoroughly road tested of the four, but are still very
thorough. I am also very close to finishing a transcription of The
Dharma Prince from The Grail and the Lotus album. It is a rare and
totally fascinating example of Basho composing and performing in
standard tuning, but still on a typically expanded scale. Not sure
when that one will be up though.

I know you've all been dying to get your hands on these (not!), so
I'll leave it there. I hope they prove satisfactory...

Cheers!

Robbie

--- In robbiebasho_forum@yahoogroups.com, "Robbie Dawson"
<robbie.dawson@...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I've just uploaded a recently finished transcription of Babs to the
> files section. The format is pretty much the same as the Golden
> Shamrock effort that went up in January (and which is still to be
> completed). It's in pencil, with fairly strict spacing to indicate the
> beat and offbeat. I have also added bar lines which are useful at
> times, maybe not so at others. There is also the odd symbol that may
> need explanation:
>
> a forward slash for a slide up, and a backward slash for a slide down.
> A slash on the beat (i.e. on the beat line) to indicate a slide
> executed on the beat, and a slash before the beat line to indicate a
> less emphasised or off-beat slide. A 'T' here and there is used to
> suggest the use of the thumb where it may not be obvious. And perhaps
> the most ambiguous/frustrating/important of all- the brackets. These
> variously indicate a quiet, secondary, or accidentally struck note,
> or, most crucially, a note that follows a slide (for example) and
> which is not struck. Normal slides/slashes don't indicate a struck
> note either of course, but when a slide is delayed or otherwise I have
> found it useful to emphasise the fact that the the newly arrived at
> note is definitely not struck. Lastly, bracketed notes may even be
> included if the note is very faint, but nevertheless shed important
> light on the wider chord shape.
>
> The piece is constructed largely out of different barre chords- using
> from just the two top strings (i.e. 1 and 2) to a whole barre. The
> extent of the barre should be apparent from the notes (or numbers)
> present in the tab itself- I have not indicated it elsewhere.
>
> I welcome any and all comments and criticisms on the transcription,
> and invite everyone to have a go at playing, if so inclined. I'm going
> to keep on practicing Babs and hope to get some kind of rough
> recording up here at some point, just for fun of course!
>
> All of my pencil transcriptions are drafts of varying roughness. I
> ultimately hope to find a decent computer programme to make them look
> a bit smarter (any suggestions?), but for the time being I find the
> pencil/jpeg approach the easiest.
>
> After finishing The Golden Shamrock I'll hopefully be starting on
> another, but can't quite decide which one- any suggestions or
> requests? Bearing in mind that I don't yet own a 12-string and I'm
> still having trouble with his wild tremolo technique- which kind of
> narrows down the choice!
>
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Robbie
>