The tabs were written in Tabledit. If you don’t have said software you can download a free viewer/printer from http://www.tabledit.com/tefview/. The tabs are also available as *.pdf files (see http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to download Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Organization and
Links
Tunes are organized by tunings. With the exception of “Bobbing for Eels” (which I NEVER could play), most of the tabs do represent tunes that I could, at some point, play, or that there’s some hope of being able to play in the future. At one time I had *.mp3s of some of these tunes at ezfolk.com, but that site is no longer hosting such files. Many tunes are admittedly now gone both from my “muscle memory” and from any other form of memory. A large reason for why I write tabs is to archive tunes for when I forget them. Along these lines, I try not to write tabs for tunes that have published tablature or are readily available elsewhere, unless what I’m doing is terribly (played?) unique. The world probably has enough tabs of Spotted Pony in D at this point (but not of the Missouri version in A, which is a completely different tune [see below]).
Tunings
Here we have links to *.tef and *.pdf files for a number of different tunings
A (eC#EAE)
A (aDAC#E)
Sweet Sunny South (*.tef) (*.pdf)
A (aEAC#E)
Big Indian Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Cincinnati Quick March (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Bobbing for Eels (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Bob Tailed Mule (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Chinquapin Hunting (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Dew Drop Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Fire on the Mountain (Isham Monday's) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Fletcher's Delight (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Greenback Dolly-O (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Grigsby’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Half Past Four (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Horse and Buggy-O (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Jenny Get Around (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Lamplighter’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Lardner’s Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Little Dutch Girl (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Little Whiskey (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Possum up a Simmon Tree (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Spotted Pony, The Other (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Stillhouse Branch (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Walk Along John to Kansas (*.tef) (*.pdf)
A modal (aEADE)
Black Jack Grove (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Chicago Reel (Congress Reel first) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Colonel Crockett (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Elzic's Farewell (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Fine Times at Our House (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Glory in the Meeting House (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Highlander’s Farewell (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Paddy on the Turnpike (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Pride of America (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Red Brick House in Georgia Town (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Pride of America (*.tef)(*.pdf)
Ways of the World (*.tef) (*.pdf)
B-flat (fA#FA#D)
Democratic Rage Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Hopkin’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Oklahoma Red Bird (*.tef) (*.pdf)
President Garfield’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
President Grant’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
B (f#F#BD#F#)
Oh My Little Darlin’ (*.tef) (*.pdf)
C (gCGCD)
Don’t Drink Nothin’ But Corn (*.tef) (*.pdf)
East Tennessee Blues (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Wes Muir’s Tune (*.tef) (*.pdf)
C (gCGCE)
Charleston No. 1 (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Charleston No. 2 (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Cherry River Rag (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Chickens Don’t Roost too High (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Cincinnati Rag (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Heck Up Coal Holler (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Heck Broke Loose in Georgia (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Monkey in the Dog Cart (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Blackbird, The (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Bob Walter's Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Briar-picker Brown (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Charleston Girls (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Coming through the Canebrake (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Corkonian Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Down at the Mouth of Old Stinson (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Dreydel (& Maoz Tsur) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Five Miles from Town (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Folding Down the Sheets (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Forester’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Goodbye, My Honey, I'm Gone (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Grasshopper Sittin' on a Sweet Potato Vine (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Greenbrier River (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Indian Ate a Woodchuck (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Jim Clark's Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
John Sharp's Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Kenderbeck's Quickstep (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Kerry Mills' Barn Dance (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Lantern in the Ditch (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Mackilmoyle's Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Martha Campbell (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Massasoit Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Mississippi Sadder (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Mississippi Sawyer (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Molly Put the Kettle On (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Morpeth Rant (duet) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Peter Francisco (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Rachel (Texas Quickstep) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Raven Schottische (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Red Hills Polka (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Rockingham Cindy (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Rose in the Mountain (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Sarah Armstrong’s Tune (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Sentinel Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Sharp's Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Ship in the Clouds (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Sleepy Eyed Joe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Snowflake Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Soldier’s Sorrow (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Spring Creek Gal (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Step to the Music Johnny (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Straw Bonnet (*.tef)
Turkey in a Pea Patch (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Ways of the World (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Woodchopper's Breakdown (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Zack Wheat's Piece (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Goodbye, My Honey, I'm Gone (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Missouri Mud (low version) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Missouri Mud (high version) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Bonaparte's Retreat (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Washington's March (*.tef not available yet) (*.pdf)
Earl's Chair, The (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Golden Keyboard, The (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Rose in the Mountain (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Tinker's Daughter, The (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Drunken Hiccups (*.tef) (*.pdf), Over-ornamented (*.tef) (*.pdf)
First Night in Leadville (Western Gem first) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Western Gem (*.tef) (*.pdf) - this tune actually modulates, starting in “A” and then going to “E.”
F (aFCFG)
Crapshooter’s Rag (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Ned Kendall’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
G (gDGBD)
Blackberry Blossom (duet) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Black Sally Goodin (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Dance All Night (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Flop-Eared Mule (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Hunting the Buffalo (*.tef)
(*.pdf)
Off to California (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Old G (gDGDE)
Green Fields of America (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Ladies in the Ballroom (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Last of Harris (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Shoes and Stockings (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Another
G (gEADE)
Bluegrass Meadows (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Bound to Have a Little Fun (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Brown Button Shoes (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Bull Run Picnic (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Captain Kelley’s Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Charlie's Hornpipe (Stack of Barley) (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Fort Smith Breakdown (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Garfield's March (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Georgia Wildcat Breakdown (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Hooker’s Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Indian and the Woodhen (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Jimmy in the Swamp (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Jolly Seven Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Lamb’s Wood Rag (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Lay Down with the Chiggers and the Fleas (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Leather Britches (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Magic Slipper Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Mr. Wilson's Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Off to California (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Over the Moor to Maggie (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Pigeon on the Gate (*.tef)
(*.pdf)
Scott Number Two (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Shanghai Rooster (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Sheep and Hogs Walking Through the Pasture (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Silver Star Hornpipe (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Stump-tailed Dog (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Temperance Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Three Forks of Sandy (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Squirrel Hunters (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Walking in my Sleep (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Wild Horse at Stony Point (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Melodic Three-Finger
Jack Danielson’s Reel (*.tef) (*.pdf)
Some conventions:
Time signatures:
With some notable exceptions (jigs and maybe some waltzes to come) I’ve used “cut-time” for the tablatures. This is 2/2 time, so there are two beats per measure and each beat is equal to a half note. There’s a lot of variation out there as to what time signatures are used by other people (2/2, 2/4, or 4/4), but I can’t bring myself to say that there are four beats per measure (as in 4/4), because I don’t tap my foot that many times per measure. If the 2/2 symbol makes you uncomfortable the simplest thing to do is ignore it and live in a 4/4 world (just remember to tap your foot twice as fast as I would). And just to be noncommittal, I've started dropping the time signatures from the printed versions of the tabs.
And now for something completely different: An Excel© spreadsheet for calculating fret locations
And the decimal coordinates for Camp Washington-Carver, WV
are 38.01, -80.970556