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    Question Tabs for Evangeline?

    Does anybody have tabs for Evangeline? I'd like to work on that tune, hoping maybe to get a head start if someone has tab sheet or written music for it . . .
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    This Evangeline?
    or her nameske by E.Harris and The Band?
    This a version s a bit strange, because it sounds in b flat major, but if you watch closely they play open chords in A major.
    I guess for the playback shoot they forgot their capos.
    Here's a version in A
    Levon predominantly strums chords http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/th...geline_crd.htm
    He plays this little intro lick where c# is hammered on from a b on the a string against an open e-string

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    Some good catches there CrissCross, enjoyed 'em one and all. I have to say I like it in A with Sheryl Crow and Levon much better than EmmyLou's version a half step up. Also, have always like Los Lobos as a group, I'm a long-time blues guitarist myself.

    I should have been more specific, the one I'm interested in is the one you see Levon doing; I think Robbie got the writing credits. Anyway, that's the one. I was asking out of laziness, I suppose. What I am wanting are mandolin tabs for the melody, either the vocal line melody or a solo based on it. If nobody has done anything like that, and if the song works for me, I'll have to figure it out on my own, and was hoping to find a shortcut is all.

    I am a Levon fan, and Louisiana native, so the song has a great appeal to me. I rediscovered it yesterday, but haven't put a guitar or mando to it yet. I'm new to mando, and presently learning scales via FFcP along with fiddle tunes via tab and noodling around. I've got Baby Please Don't go (Light'nin' H) worked out, in A rather than E, and really loving the mandolin.

    I suppose it's doubtful that anyone has tabbed out the melody; maybe somebody has some sheet music on this tune?
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    Today, I noodled a bit on "Evangeline"
    Maybe, if i find the time, I'll try to make a mandolin solo arrangement of this nice song. Too bad I haven't got any tab writing software.
    But for the basic melody, you can try something like this:

    a/4, a/5, a/4, a/0 repeated Verse
    a/4, a/5 a/4 a/2

    a/2 d/6 d/2 repeated (string/fret)
    a/2 a/4 a/2 a/0

    a/0 a/5 e/2 e/0 Chorus
    a/5 e/0 a/4 a/0
    a/2 a/0 a/2...and so on.
    Notice that I just wrote every note just once , depending on the lyrics, you'll have to repeat them or play them three times, but with the help of the recording, you should be able to play the basic melody.
    Once you have it down, you can try to embellish the melody with open string drones (e on the verse, d on the chorus) and grace notes,
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    Default Re: Tabs for Evangeline?

    Thanks crisscross, that helps a lot.
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    Default Re: Tabs for Evangeline?

    This version is Eb, but no capo so maybe mandolin is tuned up a semitone?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIj3h5d_9WM

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    I can't see past the Last Waltz version which I would consider the original. The second half of every verse is taken by Emmylou Harris with a whole new countermelody that would have been good enough for a song in its own right. Here's the tab, and for simplicity I have moved it down form A# to A.
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    There is an opportunity to combine the two melodies as the recording does in the second verse. This could be done with instruments as well as vocals.

    I used to jam this one. The high notes in the counter melody were eye-popping. So we use to transcribe to F to make the harmonising bearable. F has a lot to be said for it for many reasons.

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    Default Re: Tabs for Evangeline?

    Thanks for that tab, Julian!
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