When dey wud no crawfish

wordpress is way better.

2009-07-09T15:55:00.000-07:00

please update your bookmarks people.

http://tylercornett.wordpress.com

Wordpress ahoy!

2009-05-05T18:34:00.000-07:00

I was up late pondering last night, as I sometimes do. I was just thinking about how much more awesome Wordpress is apposed to Blogger. For one I can upload mp3s & videos and whatnot. So I've decided to abandon Blogger and migrate to a more respectable and nifty-er personal webspace, before I dig too deep into the tubes. So all ... 4.. of you.. be advised and look out for the link whenever I decide to make a profile there.
Thanks,
Tyler

New accordion

2009-04-19T09:41:00.000-07:00

I've taken an interest in the French music of North America recently...

I am the owner of a new Hohner Ariette 10 button diatonic (or Cajun) accordion.

Push / Pull
1 E - G
2 G - B
3 C - D
4 E - F
5 G - A
6 C - B
7 E - D
8 G - F
9 C - A
10 E - B

It's impossible to make full chords, but there are implied partial chords/blends

Push:
C can be any combination of buttons because C(1st) E(3rd) and G(5th) are everywhere (A is in the Pull)
4+5, 3+4, and 6+7 are most common C chords.

Pull:
G chord (G is the 1 button)
(1+)6+7 or 7+10

D or Am 5+7 or 7+9

F 4+5, 7+8, or 8+9

pulled these off a youtube video... just basic stuff for reference for now.

Norwegian Wood

2009-04-07T02:30:00.001-07:00

wanted to learn this for banjo so I could play along with a friend who can play it quite well on guitar.. I think this would be doing the sitar part in the original...

D|~~~0~~~0~~~|~~~~~~~|~~~0~~~0~~|~~~~~~~|
B|~3~3~~~3~~~|~5~3~1~|~0~0~~~0~~|~~~1~0~|
G|~~~0~~~0~~~|~~~~~~~|~~~0~~~0~~|~2~~~~~|
D|~~~0~~~0~~~|~~~~~~~|~~~0~~~0~~|~~~~~~~|
g|~~~~~0~~~0~|~~~~~~~|~~~~~0~~~0|~~~~~~~|

D|~~~0~~~0~~~|~~~~~~~|~~~0~~~0~~|~~~0~~~0~~|
B|~~~0~~~0~~~|~~~~~~~|~~~0~~~0~~|~~~0~~~0~~|
G|~0~0~~~0~~~|~~~5~4~|~0~0~~~0~~|~0~0~~~0~~|
D|~~~0~~~0~~~|~3~~~~~|~~~0~~~0~~|~~~0~~~0~~|
g|~~~~~0~~~0~|~~~~~~~|~~~~~0~~~0|~~~~~0~~~0|

tried to convert this from a bluegrass tab I found...
sounds right to me! This will be awesome next time I jam with him.

It's got to be a Chocolate Jesus...

2009-03-30T14:06:00.001-07:00

I saw today's Daily Frail on Tangier Sound showing the minor chord form and how you can keep that form and make every minor chord by just moving it down the neck.. Really cool!

I tried to show this tab in a comment, but it got all jumbled. So hopefully that doesn't happen here.

Intro
4/4 - slow
~~~3~~~3~~~|~~~3~~~3~~~|~~~3~~~3~~~|~~~~~~~~|
~~~3~~~~~3~|~~~3~~~~~3~|~~~3~~~~~3~|~~~~~~~~|
~~~2~~~~~~~|~~~2~~~~~~~|~~~2~~~~~~~|~2(bend)|
~3~3~~~~~~~|~3~3~~~~~~~|~3~3~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~|
~~~~~0~~~~~|~~~~~0~~0~~|~~~~~0~~~~~|~~~~~~~~|

Rest of the song can be found HERE

Take a whiff on me

2009-03-25T10:33:00.000-07:00

an easy, kinda bluesy song.

Take A Whiff On Me

words and music by Huddie Ledbetter

(note: the OCMS cover I was thinking of was "Cocaine blues" on Big Iron World ... it has the same chorus...)

G (0000)
C (2012)
D7(0210)

Chorus:

Take a [G] whiff, take a whiff, take a whiff on me,
[C] Ev'rybody take a whiff on me,
[D7] Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on [G] me.

Verses:

[G] I got a woman six feet tall,
[C] Sleepin' in the kitchen with her feet in the hall,
[D7] Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on [G] me.

Two old maids a-fishin' in the creek,
They ain't caught a man since a-way last week,
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

Want to get a woman let me tell you a word,
Grease your hair down as slick as lard, ...
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

I'm a-walkin' down the road with my hat in my hand,
lookin' for a woman who needs a worried man,
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

walkin' down the road, the road is mighty muddy,
Slippin' and slidin' and I can't stand steady,
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

I know my woman ain't a-treatin' me right,
She don't get home til the day gets light
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

Meet a lot of women out a-ramblin' around,
But the Boston women are the best that I found,
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

Sing your song all night long,
Sing to my woman from midnight on,
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.

Lesson x 2

2009-03-22T00:40:00.000-07:00

Quasi-daily folk song lessons! woot!

here's the latest from the youtubes!

Lesson!

2009-03-20T15:50:00.000-07:00

Last night I was bored so I grabbed the ol' 5-string and started banging on it, sat in front of the camera and this happened:

A song lesson! A sometimes incoherent song lesson, but a song lesson nonetheless.
Just doing my part to spread the banjo love. Patrick even put it on his blog! That's a really awesome student to teacher thing he has going on, he makes lesson videos and the students watch said videos then submit their own if they choose to and he and his dad can see progress with their students.

I hope this helps someone, somewhere.

singin' and frailin'

2009-02-23T16:17:00.000-08:00

Some better videos of me singin'
this time on my 5-string, which I have been learning far longer than guitar.

Banjitar singin'

2009-02-12T09:25:00.000-08:00

On Monday I ran to Guitar Center to see if they had any Ukuleles on sale. They had a $40 piece of plywood they called a ukulele, so I asked what kinda banjos they had. The guy came back with this which they claimed was 43% off.. although looking around the web I see the same price I got there at a lot of different places..

I really like it, I've been playing a 5-string for months now and I think it's so cool I get to learn guitar on a banjo!

anyway, I've hardly played any guitar before a few days ago and hardly ever sang anything (I've done drunken Karaoke a few times) so this morning was ..interesting.

Moscow, Moscow, Your soul is so big

2009-01-30T18:12:00.000-08:00

I guess it's time to update this...
I said something about recording a shanty last time, I might still do that. Just thought I'd share a story about my week, because it was pretty exciting. I think it was Sunday when my brother Matt and his wife Amy Bleu came to Spokane, we ate Mexican food and afterward he came and hung out at our place and Jammed for a few hours. My younger brother on Ukulele, Matt on guitar and me frailing on the banjo. It was really fun, we played a song by Eef Barzelay called "I wasn't really drunk." next day they played a show together at the Gallery of Thum' at the famous old steamplant which they converted into a bunch of resteraunts and shops & stuff (you can even rent out their huge boiler tank for banquets) That was cool because Ron Greene opened and so did Bellows Bot (who is also in Amy's band). Then the idea floated around that since I didn't have to work the next day I tag along and go to Moscow with them. So we hit some sports bar and had some beers and I stayed at Amy's place that night.. next day we didn't have to leave until 6 so I hung out with Matt all day. Ate Indian food, shopped at several different music stores (I picked up a metronome, a shorter glass slide which is pretty awesome because of the 5th string tuner always gets in the way, and some thick picks for my brother's mando.) when we got to Moscow the bar looked a lot like that bar in Blues Brothers minus the chicken wire. It really didn't seem like many of the patrons were into it, there was a small group who came up and chatted, danced and even sang along to one of her covers (No Children, by the Mountian Goats) I, having nothing to do but take pictures and watch the show, drank a little too much too fast. I'm sure you've been there before. So the ride home wasn't as ...clean.. as I would've liked it to be, but at least we all made it back in one piece and didn't have to stay in some shitty motel.

I think i'll work on "Greasy Coat" that seems like an easy song
Part A
Am---|Am---|Am---|G-Am-|Am---|Am---|Am---|G-Am-:||
Part B
Am---|G---|Am---|Am---|Am---|G---|Am---|Em-Am-:||

I'd love to be able to play "When dey wud no crawfish" I'd really have to work on the slide for that. OOh I just noticed I have a follower, thanks follower! :D

Shanghai'd

2009-01-18T01:38:00.000-08:00

Just saw a "Folk song of the day" video from 1 year ago that featured the song "blow the man down."

In it Patrick explains how in the 19th century Black Ball freighters kidnapped drunkards, beat them, and when they woke up they were on a ship in the ocean/bay/sound/river or what have you. It was either work for them or drown trying to reach the shore.

It brought to mind the tour I took that I thoroughly enjoyed in Portland, OR (which was the #2 Shanghaiing port on the west coast after San Fransisco) which takes you into the tunnels they used to capture the drunk men from the taverns. I believe women were also taken for nefarious sex slaving business.. The bartenders would wait until some poor bloke, or a few, happened to stand on the right spot, a lever was pulled and BAM down to the tunnel they went where they were beaten and their boots taken so if they tried to escape.. the broken glass and nails strewn about would leave a trail of breadcrumbs so to speak.. Shanghaied crew were considered lower than the rats on board and when food was running out... you became dinner.

I've heard the song before, but never really understood what it meant. Blow the man down = beat the living hell out of him..

I really want to record this one as my first singing attempt since it is very simple (G and D in 3/4). So yeah, look forward to that.. if your reading this.

Singing?

2009-01-15T10:23:00.000-08:00

I can't imagine being able to sing while playing... I mess up when I try to say a single word.. It'll come with practice I reckon.

community

2009-01-13T02:17:00.000-08:00

Friends and family are awesome, they'll always make you feel good. I just got done playing a round of drunken Risk, seriously Steel reserve is the best beer you can get for your money....

I got on Tangier Sound again today! For that I'm extremely excited and grateful to the Costellos. Steve From Ohio said something that I thought was pretty deep..
he commented on my latest video..

"Awesome, keep posting! Seeing folks in this community all grow together as musicians is one of the most inspiring aspects of this whole craft."

And every word of that is true. Even though I haven't been there for that long.. the fact that little old me could inspire someone to pick up a banjo is beyond awesome.. Maybe in the near future I could start doing tutorial videos, that would be very rewarding and pretty cool..

I think I'll go to bed now.. I can't stop hiccuping though... turns out that's not just a cliché.

Four AM Frailing

2009-01-11T07:02:00.000-08:00

I recorded these instead of Sleeping tonight.

Banks of the Ohio

and Big Rock Candy Mountain

one is a song I know well, the other is one I barely know. Tried these without the resonator on so see what it would be like. I dig it.

Featured on Tangier Sound!

2009-01-09T11:42:00.001-08:00

How cool is that??!
Me on Tangier Sound

Rosin The Beau

2009-01-09T09:46:00.000-08:00

Oh yeah, HAPPY NEW YEAR! aught nine! Woohoo!

Cripple Creek

2009-01-09T09:43:00.001-08:00

Knight to D7

2008-12-19T13:16:00.000-08:00

I was playing around with the D7 chord (0 2 1 0) and I remember seeing a video of Patrick's where he plays a pretty basic version of Red River Valley with just that chord using a combination of open and fretted strings, but did not explain exactly which strings to pick and which ones to fret and so on. I was practicing this morning and it took a long while, but I figured it out! this makes me feel good about myself because I thought it was so awesome that I could do that after having the banjo for only a matter of months. Now I have to tackle getting my hands to do different things easier and maybe faster, and once I get that down pat maybe I'll be able to sing without messing up.

Bloggonit!

2008-12-18T05:54:00.000-08:00

I have a bonafide blog now! That's right, screw you Myspace! but unlike my mewling over there, I will try to steer the posts here in one direction. What is that you ask? My banjo and folk music in general. I got my Fender banjo on a whim at the local Spokane Guitar Center in or around late August. I think I paid $375 for it. They had a Deering there, but that was out of my range. That's almost 4 months now and I try to practice every day. I only know about 4 and a half songs...

I'd like to dedicate this blog to Patrick Costello, who has an amazing Youtube channel and inspires thousands to pick up their instruments and play along. Check it out!-> Dobro33H.<- Patrick has recently fallen Ill and lost his hearing, but he'll be fine and making videos in a week or so.