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capnrusty
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« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2004, 12:15 PM »

Blackdog 72 Red--I used to run that play all the time in the old sandlot. Little did I know it was so very close to a tab for a train shuffle!

HA!
       
I tried to do a play of my own but I don't have the patience. I still have my old high school playbooks somewhere. Train beat on 3, Train beat on 3, ready...break!

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Andrew
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« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2004, 02:02 PM »

Hey, Mr A - how do you get your tab to line up? I did it once, but I had to use hyphens to indicate rests.

Mr Gobar - are those bass drum notes "and-uh" or "uh-two?"
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« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2004, 02:07 PM »

Hey, Mr A - how do you get your tab to line up? I did it once, but I had to use hyphens to indicate rests.

Mr Gobar - are those bass drum notes "and-uh" or "uh-two?"

Surround your tabs with these tags, substituting straight brackets for the curly ones shown here:

{pre}your groovy tab stuff{/pre}

If the end result is too small, then surround all that text with these size tags, using 3 or 4 as your size:

{size=4}{pre}your groovy tab stuff{/pre}{/size}


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Andrew
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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2004, 02:36 PM »

Thanks - I think I tried to just set it in Courier:

(pre)
cm: o
hh: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
sd:     s       s  
bd: k         k    


(font=Courier)
cm: o
hh: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
sd:     s       s  
bd: k         k    
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gobarr
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« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2004, 08:31 AM »

Andrew sorry about my tab.  I didn't know how to turn the kerning off so it didn't align the way it was supposed to.  (kerning is the spacing between each character or letter)  Anyway now that Mr. Acrolite cleared it up for me I can write the tab the way its suppose to be.  Again this is John Fishman playing "Get Back on the Train" in the band Phish!

Count : 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
HHfoot: x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x  
Snare : l r L R l r L r l r L R l r L r
BASS  : x     x x       x     x x

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Andrew
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« Reply #25 on: July 23, 2004, 09:13 AM »

That's like a Samba train!
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« Reply #26 on: July 26, 2004, 02:22 AM »

My favorite train beat is the slower moving train in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song 'Tuesday's Gone'. The drummer is Robert Nix (The Atlanta Rhythm Section) who bumped Skynyrd drummer Bob Burns on this track. Burns was a great drummer, and it must of stung to have been 'Nixed'.

This train is an older locomotive, you can can hear the steam and the wheels turn, and even though the song doesn't speed up, it builds momentum.
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« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2004, 10:50 AM »

I don't hear any train beat in 'Tuesday's Gone'  Sad

That's cause it's building steam, leaving the station.
Not your typical train beat...
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« Reply #28 on: July 26, 2004, 05:04 PM »

must be a diesel ...

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« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2004, 11:03 AM »

Surround your tabs with these tags, substituting straight brackets for the curly ones shown here:

{pre}your groovy tab stuff{/pre}

If the end result is too small, then surround all that text with these size tags, using 3 or 4 as your size:

{size=4}{pre}your groovy tab stuff{/pre}{/size}


If you use the Teletype function, see the button when you post, it will place these tags around your tab and make it line-up properly. It's so small, you'll need to increase the size a bit, as Mr. A suggested.

Example:
Code:
[tt]R L R L[/tt]

would look like this when posted:
R L R L

This is what I use, and increase the font size to 3, which would look like this:
R L R L

Or increase to 4:
R L R L

Anyway, it all lines up now as you add various lines in your tab notation. You can also use bold, italic, and colors as needed.
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« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2004, 01:07 PM »

The train beat is a great tool to pull out when you need it.  I might even say essential like the basic rudiments.  Even if the music you play does not go well with a train beat, it is a great coordination excercise that requires in the pocket playing.  Once you lock it in a tight pocket, you will see and feel why so many great drummers have used it.  You will improve as a player by regularly practicing a solid train beat as one of your excercises.  
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« Reply #31 on: August 03, 2004, 01:18 PM »

I agree gobarr!  I like to play 2 bars of train beat--2 bars of fill (keeping the feet going of course), or 4 and 4.  Whatever.

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