Help! Can you think of any? I am drawing a blank, except for maybe Polly Vaughn.
Have a jam coming up in a couple of hours and would love to bring in a little minor key flavor.
Thanks all!
Help! Can you think of any? I am drawing a blank, except for maybe Polly Vaughn.
Have a jam coming up in a couple of hours and would love to bring in a little minor key flavor.
Thanks all!
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--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
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OK, I'm doing Pretty Polly in A minor.
Teri LaMarco
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Go on Pandora radio and create a station using the song Jerusalem Ridge. You will get some good results. It worked for me. I love songs in a minor key.
Svea
There's a line in a Grisman tune about him always playing in a minor key. I think its with Sam Bush
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Little Sadie and Cold rain and snow are songs that are maybe not originally bluegrass, but get played in that format quite often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQMQ7qHfqQ They are not natural minor, but dorian though-
There are many old time tunes set in a minor key. Most bluegrass players know a few--or many. Many of them have a an A part in a major key and a B part in a minor key, or vice versa.
Cattle in the Cane
Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains
Frosty Morning
Sally in the Garden
Swallowtail Jig, etc...
Or how about Muddy Water for a vocal tune? How about Minor Swing? That's fun at a jam.
Steve
"They're approaching. That's very forward of them."
Deep Mine Blues - Dm - Larry Cordle
"Shady Grove" in Dm....
Make America Grateful Again!
2013 Collings MF, 2017 Northfield NF2S, 2019 Northfield Big Mon F
1968 Martin D12-20, 2008 Martin HD28, 2022 Martin CEO 7
1978 Ibanez Artist "Flying Eagle" Masterclone Banjo
Oh....and "Wayfaring Stranger" in Am
Make America Grateful Again!
2013 Collings MF, 2017 Northfield NF2S, 2019 Northfield Big Mon F
1968 Martin D12-20, 2008 Martin HD28, 2022 Martin CEO 7
1978 Ibanez Artist "Flying Eagle" Masterclone Banjo
Lonesome Fiddle Blues starts off in Dm
Blessings from the Smoky Mountains
2017 Northfield Big Mon Engelman top
1998 Martin HD28VR
2001 Taylor 514CE
2018 Blueridge BR240A
50's Conrad baritone uke - was mom's
2 tenor ukes Leolani and Kala
Travellin' Kind, off an old Country Gentlemen record.
You want minor flavor? How about southern flavor? Can't believe no one has mentioned it yet. One of my favorite tunes especially for mandolin
"When you learn an old time fiddle tune, you make a friend for life"
Dillards, The Whole World Round, There Is a Time
Monroe, Wayfaring Stranger
Many variants of The Cuckoo are in minor keys, though I guess the standard BG treatment now is in major, like the Osborne Brothers version
Doc Watson et. al, Walk On Boy
Just some that come readily to mind, in addition to the ones suggested above.
Oh, and not really bluegrass, but could be a great bluegrass tune: House Of the Rising Sun.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Crossing the Cumberland, Bill does it in Gm. I find it interesting that people always assign keys here when the key of a tune is determined primarily by the range of the singer. I know that some instrumentals lay out best in certain keys but there is no rule saying that they must be played in any particular key. By the way, Wayfaring Stranger is in Gm when Bill plays
it.
Down In The Willow Garden
Nashville Blues. House of the Rising Sun. Irish Spring. Bluegrass Minor (aka Kentucky Mandolin). Opus 57.
Is Grsiman's EMD in a minor? I've never played it.
I don't think Cept ol Bill is in a minor key, but I could be wrong.
re simmers
EMD is indeed in Em. Easy to remember I would think.
Sean
Ahhhhhh!!! That went right over my head!!! I need to wake up from my Redskins nap.
Bob
re simmers
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