Grisman tunes

[Trip]

What was your first Grisman tune you learned?.....I checked the tab archive and saw only a couple in there.......I dont want to start on a completely overwheling project, but think this is a good way to improve my knowledge of different styles....

[luckylarue]

Try "Watson Blues" from Tone Poems. Great blues and tremolo playing.

[Daniel Nestlerode]

"Two Soldiers" off of Garcia/Grisman. Great folk song/ballad. I just checked and that CD is 14 years old now. Gadzooks! I'm not old enough to have been mandolin that long!

I'm listening to David Grisman Quintet as I type this. That came out in 1977, which seems about right. But 1991 was NOT 14 years ago!

Daniel, new to this "old guy" stuff.

Watosn blues is a good one. I was lietening to it the other day.

[Baron Collins-Hill]

DAWG FUNK! its my favorite grisman song ever and probably one of the funnest(?) to play. theyve got it in the tabledit archives.

[mandowilli]

Opus 38 is nice.

willi

[BlueMt.]

DG's version of Sawing on the Strings was my first attempt at one of his arrangements. I can't remember my first try at a Dawg tune. All the above are good. I've been playing Dawg's Waltz alot lately, I believe the tab is on Commando

[250sc]

It's not the first one I learned but Intimo, from Sam & Dave is a lovely melody over nice chord changes and isn't too hard to play.

[mancmando]

The typsy gypsy is a great tune......
So much so that I formed a band called the typsy gypsies!

[AlanN]

ah, so many...

Cedar Hill
Dawg's Rag
Dawgma
Dawg's Bull
Devlin (T. Rice tune, and great)
Swing 51 - same
and on and on...

[Trip]

thanks for all the ideas....I have been listening to alot of my DGQ and its a little intimidating......but so was every fiddle tune Ive learned to date......Ill definately give a listen to the Sam & Dave tune Intimo again...

[bsimmers]

Sodier's Joy tab from, I think The Muleskinner album,was in FRETS magazine many years ago. Grisman wrote the tab. It's not real tough, but a good one to start with.

[AlanN]

Yeah, I remember that tab. It's also in his book 10 Tunes in 9 Keys - cool book.

[Tom C]

others not yet listed.....
EMD
Japan
Fanny Hill
Typsy Gypsie
Swing 42 (only so so)
16/16

[cameron]

Cedar Hill melody+harmony
Boston Boy
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

[cameron]

Happy Birthday, Bill Monroe is a lot of fun!

[cbarry]

Dawg's Waltz is my fave.

Chuck

[Ashville Picker]

This is an interesting and timely thread for me. I am in the middle of a "Grisman, Garcia, and a little Tony Rice" phase. Over the past couple weeks I purchased The Pizza Tapes, Dawg Production's Shady Grove, and even the album So What. The mandolin work is captivating. It looks like I have a couple more CDs to go. Thanks.

[SternART]

My first tune I learned was Opus 38 and the 2nd was Cedar Hill....I'd recommend finding a copy of 10 Tunes in 9 Keys, it is a good starter, mostly fiddle tunes with a few early Dawg classics, someone must have one they could zerox for you...long out of print, was just a little booklet. But I highly recommend the Homespun Grisman set of CD's and book, it has many of the classics mentioned above. Where are all you guys, come on over & jam.....I play all these tunes, but Puppy Dawg style, possibly not quite up to speed, but I've been working on this stuff for years & it is hard to find someone to Dawg with. There is also a Dawg tracks CD on Homespun which has David & Mike Marshall & bass playing rhythm & you get several times thru the chords after the head played by Dawggie, then he plays the head at the end. Tabledit has several transcriptions right from the albums, note for note solos.....fun to walk in the fingerprints of David. The two Tone Poems books are good too, but if you are serious about this, I highly recommend the Homespun set. David walks you thru the tunes, explains the chords, melody, how he might improvise etc. I keep going back for more lessons, some of the tunes are hard & take years to learn & get up to speed, others are no harder than fiddle tunes and can be learned by an advanced beginner/intermediate type player. Don't be intimidated by how good the guys in the DGQ are, this Dawg stuff isn't any harder than like swing tunes or Django, maybe more grooves but it is playable & the jammin tunes are really fun to try & improvise over, Grisman's forte are these cool cyclical chord changes designed to blow over. I really enjoy jammin with Dawg Tracks, but hey you guys come on over....lets jam!