Your Questions About Bluegrass Musicians Wanted

George asks…

OMG song advice plz… recommendations for good music, anyone?

This is one of those obnoxious and instantly stigmatizing questions wherein I ask complete strangers for suggestions of musicians/groups that I might like. However I have found myself at that unfortunate position and without enough pride to keep me from asking for some Yahoo! Answers advice. This is at the same time that I am looking through music sites and a variety of music suggestion recommenders (like Pandora and last.fm’s features). The basic problem is that while there’s plenty of good music in my library, I find myself feeling like it’s not quite what I’m in the mood for right now, and it seems a little stale. Here’s the inevitable list of guidelines that attempt to illustrate breadth, depth, and a little bit of eccentricity but in fact are painfully mainstream:

Your Questions About Bluegrass Lyrics Search

George asks…

need help finding song lyrics?

I heard a Gospel song this weekend( not sure of the name of it) But it is by The Principles. I’ve searched and found 3 albums from them but had no luck finding any lyrics. has anyone heard of them? ( they area country( maybe bluegrass) gospel kind of band. ( with a female singer)
the song says something about running out of patients, but never running out of his blood.. i’m not really sure. But if anyone knows where i may can look up any/all of their song lyrics at i’d thanks you for the help! ( i have looked on all the sites that i know of) thanks ahead of time.
Thank you Pwc312002 that is the song i was looking for!!! thanks again!

Your Questions About Upright Bass Parts

Joseph asks…

Can the bass guitar in this song be played by an upright bass?

The song is You Know I’m No Good by Amy Winehouse. Could the bass part in this song be played by an upright bass? Or, is it already played by an upright bass? Haha I don’t play bass so I don’t know much about it. Here’s a link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFpJN-2tcg An example of the bass part is from 0:04 to 0:14.

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

The part for the bass guitar can be played on an upright bass.

Your Questions About Mandolin Cafe

Helen asks…

how to convert guitar tabs to mandolin tabs?!?

any way possible to do this? there are so many songs I want to play that i can only find the tabs for guitar…….also……..anyone know of any good websites with mandolin tabs (besides mandolin cafe and traditionalmusic.co )

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Download the excellent free program TuxGuitar. Then download PowerTab or Guitar Pro tabs for it. You can get like 60,000 Guitar Pro tabs in one swoop if you use appropriate software to download a bit torrent.
With a guitar song loaded in Tux Guitar, double click on the ‘Guitar’ instrument towards the bottom of the screen to bring up the instrument dialog. Change the number of strings to 4 and change the tuning of those strings to match the mandolin G D A E.

Your Questions About Dobro Music

Nancy asks…

Bluegrass music–Instruments?

Which instrument do you consider to be most essiential in bluegrass music?
1. Banjo
2. Guitar
3. Fiddle
4. Mandoline
5. Dobro
6. Bass
I meant to ask which SINGLE instrument!!

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

I’d say banjo. There are many non-bluegrass acts who use mandolin, Dobro, fiddle, and guitar; however, you just don’t hear banjo outside of bluegrass very much. Banjo on a country song is the exception, not the rule; while in bluegrass, hearing a song WITHOUT the banjo is the exception, not the rule.

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