Buckley's Walk Around Glissando

[Chris Prieto]

I am using the weidlich tabs and I'm having a heck of a time getting this right. I listened and rewatched tim's video but I am still at a loss. i know what it is supposed to sound like but no idea how to make it sound that way. Is it just a big slide from 1 to 8/12th frets?

[Tim Twiss]

I would like to see how Weidlich fingered that one. It is a totally ridiculous banjo phrase. I interpolated what I thought a banjo might do, but I think that may be another fiddle thing. Any fiddlers want to cone forward and play it? I bet it would make sense. I played it on my recording a little closer to what I think it should be than my video of old. Just race in a cluster toward the highest note.   

[Mark Weems]

Here is a link to Joe Ayers' great version. Top of the page .http://joeayers.tumblr.com/

[Chris Prieto]

@tim here is a pic of the tab, but once I read replies and listened to joe ayers i took a peek at the notation and see that maybe the tab is a tad misleading, or I dont get how to read the glissando, I thought it was essentially a slide but now i see it leaves out all the stuff in between that I can see in the standard notation

@mark thanks, i had no idea that tumblr page existed!

Thanks for helping me out, it is a fun, spooky tune. I have found a lot of the rice stuff to make think of circuses and masked marauders

[Tim Twiss]

Ha...that tab is the cheap way out. booooo

[Tim Twiss]

I believe one should try to articulate as many notes as possible, but look at the big picture and use musical sensibility. I think you look at the excitement of a flurry of notes harmonically correct between point A and point B and try to execute them in time...the result being a feeling of excitement and rising tension. Certainly not a glissando.

[Strumelia]

...where two of my fave fave fave Ayers versions of minstrel songs are...Old Grey Goose and United States Am the Place.    :)

Mark Weems said:

Here is a link to Joe Ayers' great version. Top of the page .http://joeayers.tumblr.com/

[Strumelia]

Exactly so.   Well put!   One of the reasons I particularly like Rice.   :D

Chris Prieto said:

 I have found a lot of the rice stuff to make think of circuses and masked marauders

[Chris Prieto]

I'm glad the tab is to blame and that I'm not crazy, back to the drawing board with this one!

Another good reminder to learn to read standard notation as well.

[Tim Twiss]

I think you need a little of this...a little of that - in order to make choices. Look at notation, tab, different versions of people playing etc. People interpret differently.

[Chris Prieto]

man, that joe ayers album is **really** good, I am very much guilty of listening to it back to back like 4 times in a row yesterday haha

[Strumelia]

Only 4 times?     ;)

[Mark Weems]

I think I listened to it almost every day for a year! His exploration of percussion/groove on that record, has influenced my playing tremendously.