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.

James asks…

Your Questions About Fiddlers Elbow

Sandra asks…

How is it that Cakes is up and down the best answer list like a fiddlers elbow ?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

It´s my day job ;) Someone has to keep this place going.

Yet, only on Answers UK. The honours go to others on “dot com” and australia and new zealand answers. Each to his own.

Linda asks…

Which supermarket will sell Fiddler’s Elbow ale?

Morrisons don’t sell it, Tesco don’t and Asda doesn’t. Actually, Asda DOES but only in the Wychwood selection box and I want Fiddler’s bottles sold individually.
There’s not actually an off-licence near me, unfortunately.

Your Questions About Bluegrass Music Festival

Linda asks…

who plays the bluegrass style music in back to the future III?

at the festival night, great long beards, good music. can anyone help?

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

That would be ZZ Top

Cassie…did you just highlight, copy and paste my exact answer?

At least I put the effort into actually answering the posters original question.

Charles asks…

Is this considered “bluegrass” music?

I need to sing a song tomorrow for a bluegrass fundraising festival… Does “Landslide” by Dixie Chicks count as a bluegrass piece? I know it is newer music, but it has all the fundamentals of a typical bluegrass piece. Do you think it would pass as bluegrass?

Your Questions About Acoustic Guitar Songs

Paul asks…

What are some easy acoustic guitar songs?

I got a new acoustic guitar, and I need some easy songs to play. By easy, I mean 2-4 chords, please. Don’t bother finding tabs, i’ll figure that part out, I just need the titles and artists of a few good, easy acoustic songs, thanks!

Herschel Lawhorn answers:

Wonderful tonight : Eric Clapton, (chords are easy)
simple man: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Country Boy Can Survive: Hank Williams Jr.
Collide: Howie Day
Jumper; 3rd eye blind
When September ends: Green Day

Sharon asks…

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