From: [email protected] (Bo Parker)
Subject: TAB: Camp Chase
Greetings
Here’s another flatpick arrangement of an old-time fiddle tune — «Camp
Chase.» This one was composed by Solly Carpenter, a prisoner at Camp Chase,
a Civil War prison camp near Columbus, Ohio. Supposedly Carpenter won his
release by composing and playing this tune in a prison camp fiddler’s
contest.
This is «crooked» tune — the A part is four measures repeated once, and the
B part is 10 measures(!), instead of the usual eight-measure grouping.
This, and a couple of oddly-placed triplets in the B part gives it kind of
a funky, unpredictable feel.
I’ve tabbed it and indicated the chords in G, but it’s generally done in A,
so put your capo at the second fret.
| | | | marks passage of quarter notes.
*
* is a repeat symbol
__3__
| is a triplet
TAB: Camp Chase (Solly Carpenter, arr. and TAB by Bo Parker,
[email protected])
Pick-up measure
N/C __3__
| | | |
|——————-|
|——————-|
|——————-|
|————-0-2-4-|
|——————-|
|——————-|
Part A
_1___________________
G C G | D G __3__
1 | | | | 2 | | | | 3 | | | | 4 | | | |
|——————|——————|——————|——————-|
|——0——-0—|——-0———|——————|——————-|
|*0——0-2-0—0-|——0—2-0—0-|——————|——0-2-0———*|
|*—————-|-0-2———2—|-0—0-2-0——-|-0-2———0-2-4*|
|——————|——————|————3-2-3-|——————-|
|——————|——————|——————|——————-|
_2________________
| D G
8 | | | |
|——————|
|————-0-1-|
|——0-2-0——-|
|-0-2————-|
|——————|
|——————|
Part B
G D __3__
9 | | | | 10 | | | | 11 | | | | 12 | | | |
|——0-2-3——-|——3-0———|——0h2h3-5——-|——5-2———|
|-3————3—|-0——-3-1-0-3-|-3————-3—|———3——-|
|——————|——————|—0—————|-5———5-4-5-|
|——————|——————|——————-|——————|
|——————|——————|——————-|——————|
|——————|——————|——————-|——————|
G __3__ C G C
13| | | | 14 | | | | 15 | | | | 16 | | | |
|—3———3—|——3p2p0———|——————|——————|
|-3——3-0——-|-3———3-1-0—|——1——-0—|——0————|
|——————|——————0-|—0—0—0——|-0-2—0-2-0—0-|
|——————|——————-|-2——-0——-|————-2—|
|——————|——————-|——————|——————|
|——————|——————-|——————|——————|
G D G
17| | | | 18 | | | |
|——————|——————|
|——————|——————|
|——————|——0-2-0——-|
|-0—0-2-0——-|-0-2————-|
|————3-2-3-|——————|
|——————|——————|
Enjoy
As always, if you find mistakes or have any questions or comments, email me
at [email protected].
-Bo Parker
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