When not farming in his hometown of Navasota he assumed the role of local entertainer and songstera versatile singer/musician who could handle a hardened blues just as easily as a soft children’s song. “Mance Lipscomb a Texas sharecropper for most of his life was born in 1895. Includes the original notes by Mack McCormick (All of ARH LP 1001 – the very first Arhoolie LP – & much of LP 1026.) On this album Lipscomb plays fingerstyle guitar except when he uses a jackknife to play slide guitar on Jefferson’s “Jack O’ Diamonds.” After the success of this album Lipscomb became a regular on the folk-festival circuit. Although he was influenced by such artists as Blind Willie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson Lipscomb didn’t consider himself a blues musician and preferred the term “songster” which better conveyed his wide-ranging repertoire of over 300 songs. A proud man Lipscomb disliked the term “sharecropper” preferring to think of himself simply as a farmer and the word was later dropped from the title of CD reissues. The resulting album was the first LP released by Arhoolie Records. Lipscomb played guitar and wrote songs beginning in his teens but never recorded until this 1960 session which was done in his kitchen. His father was a former slave who took up the fiddle after the Civil War his mother a half-Choctaw gospel singer. Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 the Librarian … is tasked with annually selecting 25 recordings that are “culturally historically or aesthetically significant…”įrom the Library of Congress 2013 National Recording Registry: Mance Lipscomb was born in 1895 in Navasota Texas. Don’t get dismayed it will take time and a lot of practice, I have felt on many occasions like smashing the violin to bits, it can get very frustrating, but you persevere and gradually get better, if you can’t read music yet the string builder books take you through it, it isn’t really that difficult, (apart from keys with lots of flats)□ and look at fiddlermans tutorials, can’t go wrong.“Texas Sharecropper and Songster” (album)- Mance Lipscomb (1960) has been added to the Library of Congress 2013 National Recording Registry. I would also find a very simple tune, like twinkle twinkle little star, play it over and over and then record yourself playing to see how in tune you are and then try to correct it. If you want to learn the violin Samuel applebaums string builder books are extremely good. So I am looking at the tab for the song and I am very confused seeing tabs number 5 to 9 and when i do tablature tutorial on violin it only give up to 1 to 4 frets.Īnd please select the electric violin icon on the right to see the tabs for it Hello guys so I am trying to learn this song I finished playing it with my guitar but I really want to know how I am going to play the violin part. By the way I also play guitar and have done for thirty five years, you have to treat violin as a completely different thing, in any case good luck with your learning wish you well with it. As far as I know violinists never use tab, but I have only been playing a year and a half so am not sure about that, I will say though that unless you are exceptionally talented it would be virtually impossible to pick up a violin from scratch and attempt to play a piece of music that sounded anything like what you were attempting, in fact you would probably struggle to get any kind of sound at all, not meaning to put you down or be discouraging just telling the truth, it takes a very long time generally to develop your ear enough to play in tune on a violin, with a violin you see were to place your fingers with your ears, and even then we still practice intonation every day. If you don’t play violin I would get a fiddle player or such to play it for you. I would just get the violin sheet music, that would be the easiest way, assuming you play violin.
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