Norman Blake – The Constitution March tab

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From: Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov (Bo Parker)
Subject: TAB: The Constitution March

Hi folks

Here's a flatpicking arrangement that I transcribed from a cassette I
recorded at a June 1994 Norman Blake guitar workshop. It's a fiddle tune
called "The Constitution March." Capo at the second or third fret and play
it with with a loose right hand, not too fast. This one's fairly typical of
a lot of the stuff Norman plays these days - a very "tuneful" piece with a
certain amount of melodic and harmonic "unexpectedness."

*
* is a repeat symbol. Each | above the staff marks the passage of one (4/4)
beat.

The chords -0- like in measure 17, etc., are strummed.
           -1-
           -0-
           -2-

TAB: The Constitution March, arr. Norman Blake, TAB by Bo Parker,
Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov

Pickup measure

| | | ||-----------------||-----------------||-------------0---||---------------3-||-----------------||-----------------|
Part A C F1 | | | | 2 | | | | 3 | | | | 4 | | | ||-----------------|-----------------|-------------0---|-1-0-------------||-----------------|-1---1-3-1-------|-----------------|-----3-1-1-------||*----0---0---0-2-|-----------2-0---|-----0---0-------|---------0/2---0-||*2---------------|---------------3-|-2---------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
_1_________________ C G | C5 | | | | 6 | | | | 7 | | | | 8 | | | ||-----------------|-------------0-2-|-3-----------0---|-------0---------||-----------------|-1---1-3-1-3-----|-----------------|-3-1-3---1-------||-----0---0---0-2-|-----------------|-----0-2-0-------|-------------0--*||-2---------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------3*||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
_2_________________| C16| | | ||-------0---------||-3-1-3---1-------||-----------------||-----------------||-----------------||-----------------|
Part B C G C G C F17| | | | 18 | | | | 19 | | | | 20 | | | ||-0---3-------0---|---------0-------|-0---3-------0---|-1-0-------------||-1-------3-------|-1---1-3---3-1---|-1-------3-------|-----3-1-1-------||*0-------0-------|-0---------------|-0-------0-------|---------0/2-----||*2-------0-------|-2---------------|-2-------0-------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
C G C G C21| | | | 22 | | | | 23 | | | | 24 | | | ||-0---3-------0---|-------------0-2-|-3-----------0---|-------0---------||-1-------3-------|-1---1-3-1-3-----|-----------------|-3-1-3---1-------||-0-------0-------|-0---------------|-----0-2-0-------|----------------*||-2-------0-------|-2---------------|-----------------|----------------*||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
Enjoy -Bo Parker Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov (<- MAIL to this address. REPLIES to this address will probably bounce.)
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