Rawhide

[Josh_Akins]

Are the mandolin tabs for Rawhide on Alltabs' website accurate to the 1951 Bill Monroe recording or at least close?

This was the only tab I could find where it had an audio that I could slow down to make sure I had all the notes right then speed it back up to 320 bpm.

So, experts, are the tabs correct?

[cooper4205]

Here's a pretty good version of Rawhide, it looks pretty close, but I'm at work right now and don't have a mando or recording handy to check.

Rawhide Tab (http://www.users.waitrose.com/~john.baldry/mando/tabgif/rawhid/rawhid.html)

[Josh_Akins]

Thanks.

http://www.alltabs.com/mandolin_tabs.php?id=R

I forgot to put that link in the first post. It's in .tef format.

[Peter Hackman]

Are the mandolin tabs for Rawhide on Alltabs' website accurate to the 1951 Bill Monroe recording or at least close?

This was the only tab I could find where it had an audio that I could slow down to make sure I had all the notes right then speed it back up to 320 bpm.

So, experts, are the tabs correct?
I assume you want to play it in 2/2, not 4/4. In that case the speed is more like 160 bpm.

The tef files at Mandozine have midis. You can also turn off the tab and get more notated music per page. I think the Monroe version is fairly accurate.

[AlanN]

There used to be a hand-written, very accurate version on John Baldry's site. I have it somwhere in a book.

Two of my fave versions of this tune by folks other than the composer are by Dempsey Young and Marty Stuart. I don't think Dempsey recorded it on an album, but he demonstrates it on his video. He does a pseudo-crosspick on the B part, that is cool. Marty plays just a few bars of it on his RidgeRunner record called Marty! That record is good and eclectic.

[Don Grieser]

There was a very good transcription of Rawhide in the old Mandolin World News including the break up the neck. I think the Dawg wrote it out.

[Dan Cole]

There is one done by Dawg in an old copy of either Pick'in or Frets. That's where I learned it. I forget which issue or mag exactly but I think I still have it.

[AlanN]

I'd like to see the Frets one, if anybody can scan and send. We can horse trade.

[earthsave]

See if you can get some insight into the right hand technique on this one. That makes all the difference in the song and makes it much easier to play. It's a shuffle like on Bluegrass Breakdown, which allows you to sound fast without having to go overly fast.

[mandomedic]

Are the mandolin tabs for Rawhide on Alltabs' website accurate to the 1951 Bill Monroe recording or at least close?

This was the only tab I could find where it had an audio that I could slow down to make sure I had all the notes right then speed it back up to 320 bpm.

So, experts, are the tabs correct?\

Does anyone know where the song was first performed, outside of the recording studio?

[Ky Slim]

Are the mandolin tabs for Rawhide on Alltabs' website accurate to the 1951 Bill Monroe recording or at least close?

This was the only tab I could find where it had an audio that I could slow down to make sure I had all the notes right then speed it back up to 320 bpm.

So, experts, are the tabs correct?

It says that this version is Chris Thile at the bottom when I open it in Tabledit.