Classic Rock Tab?

[grags]

First let me go ahead and admit that I am not as talented as a lot of the posters here, but I have played in a few bands mostly as a drummer. I have a very basic grasp of the guitar, dulcimer and violin. Now, I find that in the waning years of my life, I am consumed with the mandolin and this instrument has brought me much closer to understanding music and theory, which I previously avoided like the plague. With the guitar or dulcimer, I can find books/CDs galore covering a wide range of old rock classics that have the song chords and detail transcriptions of original solos. The same goes for the dulcimer. I have several books that have most of the popular Beetles tunes transcribed for the dulcimer. These learning aids have been a great help to me over the years. However, there does not seem to be any source for such materials available for the Mandolin. If there is, I sure have not found it. Even though utube is replete with such tunes. Can anyone direct me to a source until I reach a level of talent that will allow me pick tunes out by ear?

[JimRichter]

if you go to my website, I have several tunes arranged for mandolin from Hendrix, Zeppelin and others;

http://www.jimrichter.com

[Fretsman]

Here's some cool Rock tab from here and traditional others, The 2nd link has some cool folks like Jim who tab'd some stuff out, Check out Jay Buckey's tab site from in there.

Chase down the scales from the sites too and do some spider exercises from inside them to get a nice little groove going of your own, Be your tab.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/tab/searchdb.cgi?searchterm=rrck

http://mandolinformation.blogspot.com/2007/11/mandolin-fret-board.html

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/mandolin-tab/Rock_Road_To_Dublin.htm

[Fretsman]

Non rock but some good riffs to experiment with can be found here....

http://www.mountainsentinel.com/mandolin.php

[Jason Nagati]

www.led-zeppelin.org has mandolin tabs for the mandolin parts of their songs, as well as the guitar, bass, and drum tabs.