| ID | Recordings | Notes | Notation |
| Empty handed | Must I Go And Empty Handed (Ziggy's approximation) (B, 2011-07-30) (3:30 min / 1.7 MB) My feeble attempt to emulate Bobby Hicks' wonderful fiddling on the "Rocky Run" LP combines indeed well with my poor timing! I just wonder why it sounds OK while I play it and so bad when I have the computer then play it back!? 2011-08-17: I'll sure need quite some time to learn to play a half decent version along Cindy's transcript, so you better don't hold your breath while waiting for it! |
I tried to approximately transcribe (= "learn by ear"!) the tune from a 1978 vinyl LP, the Bluegrass album "Rocky Run" by
Jerry Stuart (COUNTY 767), and missed my target clearly with respect to the rhythmic structure
of the recording on that LP! --
I did not find Jerry's version on the Web; the closest I found, but much much slower, can be heard in this
video. So I made from the respective track on that LP a digital lo-fi mono copy, the reduced quality of which is probably just good enough to allow listeners their own judgement: Must I Go And Empty Handed by Jerry Stuart & Friends |
My rather imperfect transcription: Must I Go And Empty Handed (Ziggy's approximation) - poor as a transcription but, I hope, acceptable as an independent version! 2011-08-17: Cindy Harris competently analysed Jerry Stuart's recording and arrived at a transcription quite different from mine: Must I Go And Empty Handed (transcribed by Cindy Harris) The tune presented here twice is quite different from the "official" tune by George Stebbins, which you find here where you also find the complete lyrics. |
| Thine Way | Have Thine Own Way, Lord (B, 2011-07-25) (1:30 min / 0.75 MB) |
Recording and notation are in the key of G. An arrangement in D, differing also in the chords, can be found in Eileen Roys' Sacred 'Harp column in Autoharp Quarterly Vol. 23 Issue 1 (Winter 2010). |
Have Thine Own Way, Lord |
| Soul | Where The Soul of Man Never Dies (B, 2011-03-03) (1:47 min / 0.88 MB) |
The chorus of this song is actually a duet of "lead" and "tenor". Since I didn't see a way to render this on the autoharp, I use the "lead" as intro and "outro" and use for the chorus only the "tenor" part. | Where The Soul of Man Never Dies |
| Sunday | 2 C a r t e r F a m i l y gospels (B, 2010-09-26) (4:28 min / 2.1 MB) |
D i a m o n d s i n t h e R o u g h and A n c h o r e d i n L o v e D i v i n e |
Tune #1 is played in the key of G and tune #2 in the key of C. The playing of the tunes is based on traditional versions. |
| suite #1 | A Gospel Trilogy (A, 2007-12-09) (6 min / 2.8 MB) |
The suite consists of JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE (Key of G), BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE (Key of C) and THE OLD RUGGED CROSS (Key of C). |
While my arrangements of Just a Closer Walk With Thee and Brighten the Corner Where You Are do not differ significantly from the ones in the collection
"The Doofus Occasional #2" (by Heidi Cerrigione and Neal Walters), my arrangement of The Old Rugged Cross does in fact, so I present it here: The Old Rugged Cross |
| suite #2 | Rock of Ages + Give Me the Roses (B, 2009-04-25) (1:35 min / 0.8 MB) |
The arrangement of "Rock of Ages" shows how one can play a tune in the key of Bb on an autoharp that lacks the key's IV chord, Eb. | Rock of Ages Give Me the Roses |
| His Eye | His Eye is on the Sparrow (A, 2008-05-20) (2:18 min / 1.1 MB) |
The recording is in the keys of C and D. The key of C part is following the arrangement presented here. (This arrangement differs not much from the one printed in Autoharp Quarterly (without number, probably: Vol. 21/22, No. 2). So I hesitated to make the sheet, since I've published the arrangement in text form already on Autoharps Enthusiasts, but this wasn't obviously widely appreciated. And apparently not every one has access to Autoharp Quarterly, so I complied with a request.) |
His Eye Is On The Sparrow |
| Mix | SweetByeNByeUpYonder (2:24 min / 1.7 MB)
A rather straightforward (A) recording (an experiment done in 2005) using my ZephyrHill 'harp |
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| Garden | In the Garden (B*, 2010-02-21) (1:26 min / 0.72 MB) * played on my ZephyrHill 'harp |
For some old musings, discussing among other songs also In the Garden, read an e-mail I once sent the Cyberpluckers:
Chords and modulation.
Reading this old musing, you may recognise some of those thoughts when you have a look into my CHORDING PRINCIPLES on top of this page. |
In the Garden |
| Easter suite | 25 April 2011: Didn't find time for doing a better recording, particularly since Sore Fingers Week 2011 was during Holy Week, the week before Easter. March 2010: A first try, with poor timing and impure sound, hope to replace it soon: Easter hymns suite (beta version) (B*, 2010-03-18) (3:50 min / 1.8 MB) * played on my ZephyrHill 'harp A side note (!): Two of the Easter hymns appearing here have their origin in Konstanz am Bodensee (English: Constance on Lake Constance) where I once attended school and later the university. During my school days I was sometimes allowed to sing, when the better singers were not available, in the Cathedral as part of the "schola", the choir answering the soloists in Gregorian chant. (Latin was obligatory in my school; so I was supposed to (at least vaguely) know what we were singing.) These occasions mark the start of my singing career -- and also its end! |
March 2010:
For many years now I start my journey to the Sore Fingers Week
very early on Easter Sunday, thus being deprived of taking part in the singing of the familiar Easter songs.
So, as a kind of compensation, I'm assembling here a few of those songs as printed music (and as recorded - poorly as yet, alas - from my 'harp).
While the other Easter songs collected here can be found in the German hymnal "Gotteslob" (Freiburg edition, 1975), the only info I found re "Wir singen jubelnd ..." says that its words are probably derived from a poem by Novalis; re its tune I have no info at all. (I wrote down the words and tune from memory; I hope I got it all right - I know the song from my childhood days.) Since I don't know English language versions of these songs I tried to make ones myself, cf the sheets in the column to the right. But that ain't really a simple task if one aims at keeping true to the original message as well as the original rhyming scheme. So I ask your lenience when you stumble over awkward wordings. |
Key of A: Wir singen jubelnd dass er lebt / We Sing, Rejoicing, That He Lives
[Note that this tune can be played using the I and V7 chords only. Straightforward, according to the CHORDING PRINCIPLES referred to above!] Key of D: Christus ist erstanden / Christ Is Risen Key of G: Halleluja lasst uns singen / Hallelujah Let's Be Singing [Nearly no chord symbols appear in the sheet because more ain't needed according to my CHORDING PRINCIPLES.] Key of C: Freu dich erlöste Christenheit / Rejoice All Christians Now Redeemed [Since the music notation program doesn't allow change of the key in the middle of a measure, I abstained - with regrets - from marking both of the places where tonicization (both times a temporary shifting of the tonic to the dominant) is happening in this tune.] |
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