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mattcymru
Jan-04-2008, 8:01am
has anyone got a tab for this song, i cant find anything anywhere, except a song sheet (i dont read music though) so maybe this can be interpreted into tab:

http://img37.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=51508_wywss_122_1177lo.JPG

or this is the actual song but aftern listening to a few thimes i thought the intro maybe played on banjo as opposed to mandolin which is what i want to play it on!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMKrhIP2aQk

thanks http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

mattcymru
Jan-10-2008, 3:11pm
a friend has informed me this is played on banho but should be easily played on mando...can anyone do me a big favour? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif pleeeeeeeeeeease

mattcymru
Jan-15-2008, 2:29pm
anyone at all help?

mattcymru
Jun-30-2008, 11:27am
bump!

allenhopkins
Jun-30-2008, 8:04pm
Here at least are the chords: Sweet Sixteen chords (http://blog.seniorennet.be/pwmuziek/archief.php?ID=83). No mando tab that I could locate.

Interesting how this seems to be an "Irish ballad"; isn't it a turn-of-the-20th-century Tin Pan Alley song?

mattcymru
Jul-01-2008, 10:50am
thanks for that http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

has anyone got a good ear to attempt to work out the intro for mandolin at all please?

Jim Broyles
Jul-01-2008, 3:20pm
Those chords are different from what is on the live recording of Davey Arthur and the Fureys I found on Rhapsody. I gave it a listen to see if I could help you out with an intro. The song is really a nice simple tune which only needs simple chord tone notes and maybe some tremolo to kick it off.:

When You Were Sweet Sixteen - key of G
Intro:
[G Gsus G Gsus][G D/F# Em G/D C G/B Am D G D7]2x
[G]When first I [D/F#]saw the [Em]love light in your [C]eye[G/B] [Am][Am/G]
# # #I [D]dreamt the world held naught #[D7]but joy for me[G][D7]
# # #And [G]even [D/F#]though we [Em]drifted far #apart[C][G/B][Am][Am/G]
# # #I [A]never dream, but [A7]what I #dream of thee[D][D/C][D/B][D7/A]

# I #[G]love you [D/F#]as I [Em]never loved be[C]fore[G/B][Am][Am/G]
# #Since #[D]first I saw you [D7]on the Village green[G] [D7]
# #Come [G]to me [D/F#]ere my [Em]dreams of love is[C]O'er[G/B][Am][Am/G]
# #I [C]love you as I [G]loved you [D/F#][Em]
# #When you were [Bm]sweet
# #when you were [Am]swe[D7]et, sixteen[G][C][G][C](Omit final [C] last time.

mattcymru
Jul-01-2008, 4:47pm
wow! thanks again what brilliant responses tonight!

is it possible to do the intro on a mando the kind of picky bit of that makes sense?

Jim Broyles
Jul-01-2008, 4:53pm
Sure. Just form the open chords and pick individual notes.

mattcymru
Jul-02-2008, 10:58am
you wouldnt know the actual picking pattern and chords shape or somewhere i can look the chords up? im a bit of a novice on the mandolin, ive only had it 6 months but its taken me a while to getting the action lowered as i was finding it v.hard to play the initial way it was setup!

Jim Broyles
Jul-02-2008, 11:19am
Are you saying that you don't know how to form those chords on the mandolin?

mattcymru
Jul-02-2008, 11:49am
yes not all of them i can do the major open ones!

Jim Broyles
Jul-02-2008, 12:07pm
Well there is where you need to start. Learn your chords first, then string them together to play the song. For the intro to this one you only need the 3rd and 2nd strings, and only up to the 5th fret. The intro notes are all in the G major scale, between D(Open 3rd string) and D(5th fret 2nd string).

mattcymru
Jul-02-2008, 12:16pm
is there anywhere on the web i can find the fingerings for the chords (i can find most of them just not all!)

Jim Broyles
Jul-02-2008, 12:20pm
Matty, Matty, Matty! You have everything you need right at your fingertips.

Mandolin Chords (http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/chords/ch.pl)

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mattcymru
Jul-02-2008, 1:46pm
oops me bad!!

thanks again ;) your my saving grace on here!!

how long have you been playing you sound a bit of a pro!?

Jim Broyles
Jul-02-2008, 2:03pm
I have played guitar for 47 years, mandolin for 3.

mattcymru
Jul-02-2008, 4:05pm
wow impressive, what got u into mandolin? and have you got any videos of you playing?

Jim Broyles
Jul-02-2008, 5:52pm
I just wanted to play it. I like bluegrass and I figured that the mandolin would be neat to try to learn to play. I have no videos of myself. No suitable recording device.