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Topic: sheet music for Open A high bass 6 string |
Roy Fouts
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Alberta, Canada
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Posted 28 Sep 2023 9:40 am |
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| Can anyone help me find a source for sheet music for open A high bass, 6 string. I haven't had any luck searching the web. Thanks. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 28 Sep 2023 11:17 am
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Are you referring to sheet music as in written notation, or are you looking for tablature?
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David Venzke
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SE Michigan, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2023 5:42 pm
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High bass G (GBDGBD) has the same intervals. Anything written for high bass G can be played on high bass A. So start there, maybe.
What kind of music are you looking to play? |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 29 Sep 2023 3:03 am
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What kind of music are you after? Many early songbooks were written in high-bass A and are readily available for little money. Sebastian Muller has a number of great arrangements in A tuning (not sure if high-bass or low). As someone else said, you can easily adapt Dobro music (high bass G).
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2023 3:51 am
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| What kind of music are you after? Many early songbooks were written in high-bass A and are readily available for little money. Sebastian Muller has a number of great arrangements in A tuning (not sure if high-bass or low). As someone else said, you can easily adapt Dobro music (high bass G). |
Most or all of Sebastian's arrangements are in High bass A. His tabs work really well when used with his excellent videos to properly learn the tunes. |
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Lloyd Graves
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New York, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2023 1:03 pm
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Stacy Phillips' books are pretty good with the caveats that:
1. It's written for high bass G, so the mp3s need a pitch shifter to play along in A. Or you tune down to G. Most apps that show tunes down also shift pitches though.
2. The mp3 files are mostly mere snippets of the songs, or mp3s of the original sources. So really, it isn't anything you can really put into a music slow downer and loop.
3. The authors only transcribed a couple of times through the times I've looked at. For example, Aloha Oe Blues has A1 and A2, but not A3 or A4. Though this forced me to actually transcribed for myself, so maybe that is a good thing. And as long as I was doing that, I just listened to Sol H's version and worked on that a bit. So if all the times I've learned, I actually feel like I know that one the best
Anyhow, the tabs are good and the second book has a section that is just licks, which I've had some fun with.
Mike Neer has a nice transcription of Sol H's Singing the Blues. There isn't a play along track though, so you have to get the tune (available view Archive.org, I think, or different anthologies of Sol H's tunes) and slow down/loop that scratchy recording. Well worth the $5 though!
Sebastian Mueller, as mentioned, has a bunch of high bass A stuff. His website separates the tunings. And the playback tracks and play along tracks are to be drooled over. Super fun to play along with.
Lessons with Troy has some high bass G stuff. I liked his a Old Timey licks lesson. My biggest gripe is that he sells it as a bunch of licks, but some are just the same lick started at different frets, so it is really just 3 or 4 licks. Still, it was worth the price I paid. But now I believe it's a subscription, instead.
I'd be interested to see some older tabs in high bass A. I've only seen low bass A.
EDIT: FYI, all that stuff I mentioned is 1920s and 30s Hawaiian or hillbilly. Stacy Phillips also had books for bluegrass dobro, if that's your thing. |
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