From JARRELLJ@N4.OPNAV.NAVY.MIL Mon Sep 11 10:55:08 1995 Received: from opnav-emh.navy.mil by raven.math.ubc.ca (911016.SGI/1.14) id AA16695; Mon, 11 Sep 95 10:55:08 -0700 Received: from N4.OPNAV.NAVY.MIL by opnav-emh.navy.mil with SMTP (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA203179896; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:18:16 -0400 Received: from cc:Mail by N4.OPNAV.NAVY.MIL id AA810850924; Mon, 11 Sep 95 12:49:51 EST Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 12:49:51 EST From: "JARRELL_JIM" Encoding: 37 Text, 211 Text Message-Id: <9508118108.AA810850924@N4.OPNAV.NAVY.MIL> To: dgaudet@math.ubc.ca Return-Receipt-To: JARRELLJ@N4.OPNAV.NAVY.MIL Subject: TAB:LeoKottke"Why_Ask_Why"txt.format Status: RO Dean.... Was on travel last week. Late getting back to you, but thanks for the response (to my submission of Watermelon and Tenn Toad). Here's "Why ask Why" in text format. Will send text format of "Little Martha" right behind it. Looking forward to updates to Taxco Steps....your current tab in OLGA is kicking my butt!! :) just can't get second section down....as you say, and point is well taken, "some assembly required"...in fact, I find that I don't really play some of my own tabs the way I write them down. I write down what I hear but end up putting my own spin to the tune, particualarly in the syncopation.....years ago used to be a "nut" for trying to learn tunes "note for note".....guess I've mellowed in my old age! Don Ross?? Ummm...never heard of him....fingerstyle instrumentalist? How about Phil Heywood, ever hear of him? Only one tape I'm aware of, "Some Summer Day" (avail from Elderly records). His tape is superb! Re. tunings for Sleepwalk and Dream Dream....one of those issues where I probably could tab 'em out if I knew tuning.....too lazy to go through experimentation to find tuning...there's only about 3 choices...D G or C. Don't think Kottke plays any slide in other than those 3 tunings...with couple exceptions...... Speaking of which....re. your comments on your "Skinflint" tab. I had been playing it for several years and had tab "sketched out" (middle section is tough!). I figured out it was in C from a video tape I have of Kottke playing it as the closing number on an "Austin City Limits" show. His unaccompanied version on the show is, well, a "showstopper" and FAR exceeds recording. Recording pales in comparison......Alas, while your tab is real, real close, there's some nuances missing that you would have immediately picked up on had you seen it on tape. Maybe one of these days I can make a copy of the tape and send it to you. Getting long winded here......am working on putting some more tabs into my computer......great way to spend late sunday afternooon while watching NFL on the tube.... Sincerely, Jim As a new guy on the net, and a bonefide Leo Kottke nut, my first tab submitted to OLGA is one of Leo's more obscure tunes, "Why Ask Why?" from "Dreams and all that Stuff". Six string, standard tuning, "Why ask Why?" is a classic example of Leo's occasional foray into the sublime (ie. Muzak or "elevator music"). While not a Kottke original, I have no clue who composed the piece. It kind of fits along the pattern of other "old standards" Leo has "covered" over the years, the most recent being "Twilight Time" and "Wonderland by Night" from "Peculiaroso". "Why ask Why?" is a little less tongue in cheek and has, as most old standards, a very pretty melody which is probably what draws Leo to these tunes to begin with. The biggest problem I have with Leo's cover is the piano banging out the melody in the background. Unfortunately he has always had a tendancy to add too many "bells and whistles" to his productions vice solo guitar. An attempt to find commercial success I suppose but sure wish he'd stick to pure, unadulterated solo guitar......that's his audience in my humble opinion. His recent excursions into spoken word, "Rap"tunes, really turn me off but what do I know...:) Regardless of aforementioned criticisms, I've been a long time Kottke fan and had the rare opportunity to talk with Leo and his wife Mary for about twenty minutes on the floor of the Taylor guitar factory in San Diego in Dec 95. "Why ask Why" composer: unknown arrangement: Leo Kottke From: "Dreams and all that Stuff" Tab: Jim Jarrell Standard tuning Capo II (or there abouts) a = arppegio v = vibrato Note: As a "registered musical idiot", no time values per measure are provided. I break up measures in a hap-hazard manner.....ie. you gotta hear the tune! A straight forward tune, Leo's stuff doesn't get any easier than this. Reasonably slow tempo with lots of feeling....play it like a "lounge lizard" would! Section I Em(?) G e|-----------------------|---------------------| B|-----------------------|----------------0----| G|-----------------------|--------0-----2-2-2--| D|-----0--4----4-------4-|--------0-----0---0--| A|--2-----2--2---2---2---|------2---2----------| E|--------0--------0-----|-2-3--------3--------| a first two notes in above measure are "whole notes", then the pace picks up to say what? quarter notes? Am Cmaj7 |------------------------------|-----------------| |--------------0-------0-0-----|-----------------| |------2-2-------2-----2-2-----|-----0-------0---| |----2-2-2---2-------2-------2-|-1-2-2---2-------| |--0-------0-------0-------0---|-------3-------3-| |------------------------------|-----3-----3-----| G Am D(1st ending) |------------------|---------------|-------------| |------0-------0---|-----1---------|-------3-----| |----0-0-------0---|---0-2-2---2---|-0-0---2-----| |--4-------0-------|-4-------2-----|-----4-0-----| |--------2-------2-|-----0-------0-|-------------| |------3-----3-----|---------------|-------------| a a D(2nd ending) |--------------| |--------3-----| |--0-----2-----| |----2-4-0-----| |--------------| |--------------| a Section II C G D |-------------------|-------------------| |------1---0-0------|-------0-1-0---0---| |------0---0-0---0--|-----0-------2-----| |---0----0------0---|---0---------------| |-4----3------------|-------------------| |------------3------|-2-----------------| v a a that's right.. no bass notes! first three notes in first measure above are whole notes Am |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |--2------------------2-------2----| |--2--2---2--2----2-----2---2---2--| |--0----0----0--0---0-----0--------| |------------0---------------------| a a Cmaj7 G |--------------------|------------------| |--------------------|------------0-----| |-------0---0--------|------0---0-0---0-| |--1-2--2---2--4---2-|-1-2--0---0-----0-| |---------3----------|--------2---------| |-------3--------3---|------3-------3---| Am D |---------------------------| |-------1-----1-0-------3---| |----0--2-----2-2---2---2---| |--4-------2----------4-----| |-------0---------0-----0---| |---------------------------| a a Section III Uh,oh...change in key! Hate it when that happens! :) Same tune as sections I and II. Not alot of time spent trying to tab last two sections...only a sketch. Sections I and II can stand alone as a complete tune however. F#m A |------------------------|----------------------| |------------------------|------------------2---| |--------1----1-----1----|---------2--2---4---2-| |-----2------------------|-------2----------2---| |--4--------4-----4------|----0-------0---------| |--------2------2------2-|--4-------------------| first 2 notes in both measures above are whole notes Bm |---------------------------------| |---------------------------------| |--4-----4-4------4-------4-4-----| |------4--------4-------4-----4---| |----2--------2-------2---------2-| |--2-------2--------2-------2-----| D A |-------------------|-----------------| |-------------------|---------2-------| |-------2---2-1-----|-----2-----4---2-| |--3-4----0-------4-|-3-4---2---------| |-------0-------0---|-----0-------0---| |-------------------|-----------------| Bm E |---------------------|--------------0--| |-------3---3-2-------|------------0----| |--1-2------------4---|--1-1-----1------| |---------4---------4-|--------2--------| |-------2-------2-----|------2----------| |---------------------|----0---------0--| D A |----------------|-------------------------| |-------3--------|--2--2-----2--3--2-------| |-------2-----2--|---------2----------4--2-| |--1-2-----0-----|-------2-----------------| |----------------|-----0--------0----------| |-------2--------|-------------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--4--------------4--| From here return back to middle |------4--4----4-----| of section |----2-------2-------| |--2------2----------| Any corrections, comments etc. most welcome. Jim Jarrell work: JarrellJ@N4.OPNAV.NAVY.MIL |