
NOTE: Oops, forgot to mark the drum staff lines. Practicing this part is also great for your melodic co-ordination as well (it actually looks like an exercise from 4-Way Coordination). I have played this on the kit, but I can't get it anywhere near DC's speed, so I can't really go off of that. It sounds pretty close though with the midi file. I'm still not 100% sure what exactly DC is doing with the 16th note phrases so I've approximated thus far. Anyways, below are the last four measures of the Grudge. I hope to get some feedback from you musicians out there so I can get this as accurate and precise as possible. It will slow down the part and try to maintain the pitch, although it is not perfect.

BTW, if your trying to figure out some of DC's parts, I recommend using Soundforge's Time Stretch process. I am going to start at the end and work my way backwards just because of DC's very "crazy" ending. In fact, I am using Mike Land's (the one from ) tab as a starting point to build this. I'm not bashing the authors of those tabs though, so please don't look at it that way. I've seen lots of Grudge drum tabs, but I am not satisfied with the accuracy in said tabs. I figured the Grudge would be a good place to start. I am trying to correctly score the whole song in attempt to familiarize myself more with writing and reading musical notation. Can somebody please help me with this! That solo seems >to make little to no sense. He is also the only two-time recipient of the Lyon/Pitchford Award for “Best Diddley-Bow Player.” Ben’s interesting approach to instrumentation, (finger-style guitar, harmonica, banjo, lap-steel, fiddle, resonator guitar, foot-drums, vocals), and his award-winning original songwriting (recipient of “The Most Unique Performer” at “The Song-writers’ Showcase of America”) has earned him invitations to perform across North America, Europe, and as far as North Africa.”īen has headlined the Huntsville Cigar Box Guitar Festival in Huntsville, AL and many other prominent venues.> After that, Danny goes into a crazy drum solo that seems as if it is in no time >signature whatsoever. Ben became a one man blues band.įrom the bio on his website (see link below): “Ben returned to Memphis over the next few years for the International Blues Challenge (the world’s largest gathering of Blues musicians) and within three consecutive years took 4th, 3rd, and 2nd place. Not only did people stop to listen and buy his CDs but they began to dance, hoot ‘n’ holler.
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Taking cues from some of the other street performers, Ben learned how to play drums with his feet to accompany his guitar and vocals. With endless music and performing artists to distract a passerby, he found attracting an audience to be a challenge. Later in life Ben could be found busking on historic Beale Street in Memphis, TN. This same neighbor would pay visits to the Prestage home from time to time, and it is then that Ben was taught to play a little finger-style banjo. His grandfather’s influence made certain that Mississippi blues specifically helped to shape the boy’s musical interests.īeing in a rural area, seven miles in either direction to a paved road, the silence afforded Ben the chance to hear his neighbor pick bluegrass tunes on his banjo, half a mile away.


Handmade instruments played: cigar box guitar, cigar box fiddle, Lowebowīen was raised near the Everglades in Florida with nothing but the blues playing in the house. Musical styles: Florida Swamp Blues, Mississippi Blues, Old-Time Americana, Originals
