There are still groups that play 'Traditional Mariachi' all string ensembles with the tradition intact but they are few and far between and usually looked down upon. and careful with the Mariachis, they nowadays play classical style violin, as opposed to it's fiddle based roots. The singer isn't going to be doing the filler notes.Īnother tip learn your scales Major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor and know what key you're playing in, reading sheet music can open up a lot of musical doors. One thing I was doing yesterday with a particular song was listening to several YouTube videos of different singers singing it.

If the tune isn't familar to you, it can be really hard to know the difference between the essential melody and the filler notes. GOOD point about knowing the difference between filler notes and essential notes- that's always confused and challenged me with Mexican tunes. Here's 'arboles de la barranca' played in Bb, fiddle part is just a slight variation on the vocal line. There is very little Mexican fiddle music transcribed, and i've never seen it in tab form. A lot of times i just take the melody off of any song and put it on my fiddle (al pie de la tumba, el perro negro, arboles de la barranca), but you gotta know what the filler notes are and what the truly essential parts are. I learned it from a recording by Mariachi Coculense de Cirilo Marmolejo, though many other recordings of this song can be found in something closer to A 440 tuning. The song 'cuatro milpas' is an easy old waltz rhythm old song and covered in many genres(banda, mariachi, conjunto).

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