Tablature List

Tablature List

Tablatures are available in three formats:

A .gif graphic, a picture which you can print out directly from the screen display
A MusEdit file which you can download with Internet Explorer and open using the MusEdit program. You can also download all the MusEdit files in a zip archive by clicking here. You will then have to unzip using WinZip or similar. My experience with the Netscape and Opera browsers is that they may try to open individual MusEdit (.med) files as web pages rather than download them by ftp. If you have this problem you should choose the .zip option. Alternatively in Netscape you can hold down the shift key when clicking on the link to an individual MusEdit file and it should be downloaded satisfactorily. In Opera, right-click and select Save target document as ...
Word processed tab (Mandolin Licks page only)

Tab	Key	.gif	MusEdit
Blackberry Blossom (Monroe style)	G	Yes	Yes
Blackberry Blossom	F	Yes	Yes
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues	G	Yes	Yes
Brown's Ferry Blues	F	Yes	Yes
Clinch Mountain Backstep	A and Gm	Yes	Yes
Cluck Old Hen	A	Yes	Yes
Corina, Corina	C	Yes	Yes
Dixie Breakdown	A	Yes	Yes
Down in Little Egypt	C	Yes	Yes
Footprints In The Snow	D	Yes	Yes
Frankie and Johnny/Leaving Home	C	Yes	Yes
Give The Fiddler A Dram	G	Yes	Yes
Hello City Limits	B	Yes	Yes
I'll Fly Away	G	Yes	Yes
I'm Working On A Building	E	Yes	Yes
Just Because	A	Yes	Yes
Liberty	D	Yes	Yes
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz	Dm/F	Yes	Yes
Love Please Come Home	B	Yes	Yes
Mandolin licks	Various	Word processed	No
Milk Cow Blues	A	Yes	Yes
Money Honey	A	Yes	Yes
Mother's Only Sleeping	G	Yes	Yes
Muddy Water	Em	Yes	Yes
Natchez Under The Hill	A	Yes	Yes
Nine Pound Hammer	G	Yes	Yes
Old Devils Dream	F	Yes	Yes
Old Home Place	A	Yes	Yes
Old Mountain Dew	A	Yes	Yes
Pickaway	G	Yes	Yes
Rawhide	C	Yes	Yes
Roustabout	A	Yes	Yes
Roxanna Waltz	C/A	Yes	Yes
Sail Away Ladies	G	Yes	Yes
Sinkin' Creek	A	Yes	Yes
Sitting On Top Of The World	G	Yes	Yes
Snowball	D	Yes	No
Stoney Lonesome	A	Yes	Yes
Think Of What You've Done	A	Yes	Yes
Think Of What You've Done	B flat/B/C	Yes	Yes
Will You Be Loving Another Man?	A	Yes	Yes
Zip archive of all tab files		No	Yes

Andy Townend tablature archive

Andy Townend was the most talented and original mandolin player in England. We were all stunned by the news of his death in July 1998, at the age of 46.

You can read about Andy's life and achievements in the article which originally appeared in British Bluegrass News, In Memory of Andy Townend.

Further web pages in memory of Andy can be seen at UK North West Bluegrass News and at Clive Elliott's Mexborough Mandolins website.

Andy's brother Rick has been compiling tabs of some of Andy's playing, including some original compositions. I'm very pleased to have permission to include these in the Andy Townend tablature archive.

Tab	Key	.gif	MusEdit
Exercise in G	G	Yes	Yes
Floppy-Eared Mule	D/A	Yes	Yes
Fracas On The Frets	Dm	Yes	Yes
Highway 220	A	Yes	Yes
Sal-Amanda	Am	Yes	Yes
Slinky	Am	Yes	Yes

General notes on tablature

I recommend looking at the .gif tab first. This will give you all you need to play through the notation.

Using the MusEdit tab (supported by PC only) you will be able to play back the tablature through your computer's MIDI system, to hear what the arrangement sounds like. This should be a big help to beginners in particular. If you haven't already got the Musedit program, you can download a free MusEdit Viewer from this site. Just click on the link. And here's a zipped version, which may be preferable for a download using Netscape or Opera. Unfortunately there isn't a Mac version at present.

For more information about installing MusEdit Viewer, click here.

MusEdit Viewer will also enable you to print out the tab in much better quality than the .gif format page provides. However, for printing, the demo version of the full MusEdit program (see below) may be a better option, as it enables you to set page breaks.

You can obtain a free demo version of the full MusEdit program from the Musedit website. With the demo version you can do all sorts of wonderful things, including translating into regular musical notation (I haven't done this here, in order to save space on the screen, but it is a straightforward operation.) However, the demo version will NOT allow you to save your editing. To do this you will have to register your program with MusEdit (current cost $79). Considering all the tools which the program offers, I think this is good value - but check it out for yourself at http://www.musedit.com.