Chords for Blueridge BR-140, Martin HD-28 And Martin D-18 "Golden Era": Dreadnoughts At Old Town School's Music
Tempo:
113.55 bpm
Chords used:
G
F#m
Em
D
C#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C#m] [Gm] [F#] [F#m] [Em]
[F#m] [C#m]
[G] [F#m] [Em]
Hi, I'm Tim Joyce.
I'm the retail director and I run the Old Town School Music Store
at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.
[D] So this is the other sort [B] of grouping of guitars,
dreadnought guitars, which is a little bit larger body and you end up with a little bit
more sort of bass sound out of this guitar.
This is a common guitar for sort of, you know,
just your basic strumming or flat picking bluegrass guys tend towards a dreadnought guitar.
The first one we're going to look at is the Blue Ridge BR-140, which has a spruce top,
Sitka spruce top, and mahogany back and sides.
[G] [F#m]
[G] [B] [G]
[Em] [Bm] [A] [G]
[D] [G]
Basically when you look at like a piece of
mahogany, for example, mahogany is a much more porous wood than a rosewood is, so it tends to,
rather than reflect the sound, it tends to absorb it a little bit more.
So that's where you get that
nice round warm bass kind of sound, whereas rosewood reflects a little bit more, so you get a
little bit more string, a little bit more articulation in the sound.
So the next guitar we're going to
look at is a Martin HD-28 with rosewood back and sides, and if you take a look at the rosewood,
it's, you know, each of these pieces of wood that go on every guitar is a little different.
This one
really has an interesting look to it, and that should also, you know, be a bit of a factor in
a guitar if you're purchasing something that you're going to have probably for the rest of
your life.
You want to make it, make sure it's something that you like as well.
The top on this
one is Sitka spruce, as like the other one, so we'll just give it a listen and you can hear the
difference.
[F#m] [G]
[Em] [G]
[C] [G]
[N] When you look at a piece of rosewood, rosewood's a little bit more of a harder wood
than mahogany, less porous, so it reflects the sound much, much easier than a mahogany would.
So
when you, when you get a piece of rosewood, it actually, it articulates a little bit more than
mahogany because of its qualities and how it reflects the sound.
So the third guitar we're
going to look at in the dreadnought shape is the Martin D18 Golden Era, which has an Adirondack
spruce top, a little bit different type of spruce, and a mahogany back and sides.
[G]
[F#m] [G] [A] [G]
[G]
[D] [G]
The guitar that we
just looked at, the D18 [N] Golden Era, as Tim had mentioned, has an Adirondack spruce top.
Adirondack
spruce is the spruce that they used to use in the 30s on most of the guitars, and it generally has
a much, it's much more responsive than a Sitka spruce.
The grain's a little bit wider and it just
has a little bit better resonating quality.
And Martin uses this wood exclusively on their Golden
Era guitars and pretty much everything above.
And also kind of, kind of some, some cool little facts
about the Golden Era stuff is they pretty much model what Martin was making in the 30s,
specification-wise, and it means that the bracing is shifted forward a little bit, so it opens up
the lower bow of the guitar, so it gets a real rich bass and a real, real kind of a loud sounding
guitar.
The nut width is a little bit thicker, one and three quarters as opposed to one and eleven
sixteenths.
A lot of the same kind of appointments that they did in the 30s, the silkscreen logo on
the headstock, really thick v-neck, and also on the inside, you can't really see this well, but
they use cloth reinforcing strips on the sides as opposed to the, the [D#] wooden ones that they use [F#] now.
Just a really great
[F#m] [C#m]
[G] [F#m] [Em]
Hi, I'm Tim Joyce.
I'm the retail director and I run the Old Town School Music Store
at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.
[D] So this is the other sort [B] of grouping of guitars,
dreadnought guitars, which is a little bit larger body and you end up with a little bit
more sort of bass sound out of this guitar.
This is a common guitar for sort of, you know,
just your basic strumming or flat picking bluegrass guys tend towards a dreadnought guitar.
The first one we're going to look at is the Blue Ridge BR-140, which has a spruce top,
Sitka spruce top, and mahogany back and sides.
[G] [F#m]
[G] [B] [G]
[Em] [Bm] [A] [G]
[D] [G]
Basically when you look at like a piece of
mahogany, for example, mahogany is a much more porous wood than a rosewood is, so it tends to,
rather than reflect the sound, it tends to absorb it a little bit more.
So that's where you get that
nice round warm bass kind of sound, whereas rosewood reflects a little bit more, so you get a
little bit more string, a little bit more articulation in the sound.
So the next guitar we're going to
look at is a Martin HD-28 with rosewood back and sides, and if you take a look at the rosewood,
it's, you know, each of these pieces of wood that go on every guitar is a little different.
This one
really has an interesting look to it, and that should also, you know, be a bit of a factor in
a guitar if you're purchasing something that you're going to have probably for the rest of
your life.
You want to make it, make sure it's something that you like as well.
The top on this
one is Sitka spruce, as like the other one, so we'll just give it a listen and you can hear the
difference.
[F#m] [G]
[Em] [G]
[C] [G]
[N] When you look at a piece of rosewood, rosewood's a little bit more of a harder wood
than mahogany, less porous, so it reflects the sound much, much easier than a mahogany would.
So
when you, when you get a piece of rosewood, it actually, it articulates a little bit more than
mahogany because of its qualities and how it reflects the sound.
So the third guitar we're
going to look at in the dreadnought shape is the Martin D18 Golden Era, which has an Adirondack
spruce top, a little bit different type of spruce, and a mahogany back and sides.
[G]
[F#m] [G] [A] [G]
[G]
[D] [G]
The guitar that we
just looked at, the D18 [N] Golden Era, as Tim had mentioned, has an Adirondack spruce top.
Adirondack
spruce is the spruce that they used to use in the 30s on most of the guitars, and it generally has
a much, it's much more responsive than a Sitka spruce.
The grain's a little bit wider and it just
has a little bit better resonating quality.
And Martin uses this wood exclusively on their Golden
Era guitars and pretty much everything above.
And also kind of, kind of some, some cool little facts
about the Golden Era stuff is they pretty much model what Martin was making in the 30s,
specification-wise, and it means that the bracing is shifted forward a little bit, so it opens up
the lower bow of the guitar, so it gets a real rich bass and a real, real kind of a loud sounding
guitar.
The nut width is a little bit thicker, one and three quarters as opposed to one and eleven
sixteenths.
A lot of the same kind of appointments that they did in the 30s, the silkscreen logo on
the headstock, really thick v-neck, and also on the inside, you can't really see this well, but
they use cloth reinforcing strips on the sides as opposed to the, the [D#] wooden ones that they use [F#] now.
Just a really great
Key:
G
F#m
Em
D
C#m
G
F#m
Em
[C#m] _ [Gm] _ _ [F#] _ [F#m] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
Hi, I'm Tim Joyce.
I'm the retail director and I run the Old Town School Music Store
at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.
[D] So this is the other sort [B] of grouping of guitars,
dreadnought guitars, which is a little bit larger body _ and you end up with a little bit
more sort of bass sound out of this guitar.
This is a common guitar for sort of, you know,
just your basic strumming or flat picking bluegrass guys tend towards a dreadnought guitar.
The first one we're going to look at is the Blue Ridge BR-140, which has a spruce top,
Sitka spruce top, and mahogany back and sides.
_ _ _ [G] _ [F#m] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Basically when you look at like a piece of
mahogany, for example, mahogany is a much more porous wood than a rosewood is, so it tends to,
rather than reflect the sound, it tends to absorb it a little bit more.
So that's where you get that
nice round warm bass kind of sound, whereas _ rosewood reflects a little bit more, so you get a
little bit more string, a little bit more _ articulation in the sound.
So the next guitar we're going to
look at is a Martin HD-28 with rosewood back and sides, and if you take a look at the rosewood,
it's, you know, each of these pieces of wood that go on every guitar is a little different.
This one
really has an interesting look to it, and that should also, you know, be a bit of a factor in
a guitar if you're purchasing something that you're going to have probably for the rest of
your life.
You want to make it, make sure it's something that you like as well.
The top on this
one is Sitka spruce, as like the other one, so we'll just give it a listen and you can hear the
difference.
_ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] When you look at a piece of rosewood, rosewood's a little bit more of a harder wood
than mahogany, less porous, so it reflects the sound much, much easier than a mahogany would.
So
when you, when you get a piece of rosewood, it actually, it articulates a little bit more than
mahogany because of its qualities and how it reflects the sound.
So the third guitar we're
going to look at in the dreadnought shape is the Martin D18 Golden Era, which has an Adirondack
spruce top, a little bit different type of spruce, and a mahogany back and sides.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[F#m] _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The guitar that we
just looked at, the D18 [N] Golden Era, as Tim had mentioned, has an Adirondack spruce top.
Adirondack
spruce is the spruce that they used to use in the 30s on most of the guitars, and it generally has
a much, it's much more responsive than a Sitka spruce.
The grain's a little bit wider and it just
has a little bit better resonating quality.
_ And Martin uses this wood exclusively on their Golden
Era guitars and pretty much everything above.
And also kind of, kind of some, some cool little facts
about the Golden Era stuff is they pretty much model what Martin was making in the 30s, _
specification-wise, and it means that the bracing is shifted forward a little bit, so it opens up
_ the lower bow of the guitar, so it gets a real rich bass and a real, real kind of a loud sounding
guitar.
The nut width is a little bit thicker, one and three quarters as opposed to one and eleven
sixteenths.
_ _ A lot of the same kind of appointments that they did in the 30s, the silkscreen logo on
the headstock, really thick v-neck, _ and also on the inside, you can't really see this well, but
they use cloth reinforcing strips on the sides as opposed to the, the [D#] wooden ones that they use [F#] now.
Just a really great
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
Hi, I'm Tim Joyce.
I'm the retail director and I run the Old Town School Music Store
at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.
[D] So this is the other sort [B] of grouping of guitars,
dreadnought guitars, which is a little bit larger body _ and you end up with a little bit
more sort of bass sound out of this guitar.
This is a common guitar for sort of, you know,
just your basic strumming or flat picking bluegrass guys tend towards a dreadnought guitar.
The first one we're going to look at is the Blue Ridge BR-140, which has a spruce top,
Sitka spruce top, and mahogany back and sides.
_ _ _ [G] _ [F#m] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Basically when you look at like a piece of
mahogany, for example, mahogany is a much more porous wood than a rosewood is, so it tends to,
rather than reflect the sound, it tends to absorb it a little bit more.
So that's where you get that
nice round warm bass kind of sound, whereas _ rosewood reflects a little bit more, so you get a
little bit more string, a little bit more _ articulation in the sound.
So the next guitar we're going to
look at is a Martin HD-28 with rosewood back and sides, and if you take a look at the rosewood,
it's, you know, each of these pieces of wood that go on every guitar is a little different.
This one
really has an interesting look to it, and that should also, you know, be a bit of a factor in
a guitar if you're purchasing something that you're going to have probably for the rest of
your life.
You want to make it, make sure it's something that you like as well.
The top on this
one is Sitka spruce, as like the other one, so we'll just give it a listen and you can hear the
difference.
_ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] When you look at a piece of rosewood, rosewood's a little bit more of a harder wood
than mahogany, less porous, so it reflects the sound much, much easier than a mahogany would.
So
when you, when you get a piece of rosewood, it actually, it articulates a little bit more than
mahogany because of its qualities and how it reflects the sound.
So the third guitar we're
going to look at in the dreadnought shape is the Martin D18 Golden Era, which has an Adirondack
spruce top, a little bit different type of spruce, and a mahogany back and sides.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[F#m] _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The guitar that we
just looked at, the D18 [N] Golden Era, as Tim had mentioned, has an Adirondack spruce top.
Adirondack
spruce is the spruce that they used to use in the 30s on most of the guitars, and it generally has
a much, it's much more responsive than a Sitka spruce.
The grain's a little bit wider and it just
has a little bit better resonating quality.
_ And Martin uses this wood exclusively on their Golden
Era guitars and pretty much everything above.
And also kind of, kind of some, some cool little facts
about the Golden Era stuff is they pretty much model what Martin was making in the 30s, _
specification-wise, and it means that the bracing is shifted forward a little bit, so it opens up
_ the lower bow of the guitar, so it gets a real rich bass and a real, real kind of a loud sounding
guitar.
The nut width is a little bit thicker, one and three quarters as opposed to one and eleven
sixteenths.
_ _ A lot of the same kind of appointments that they did in the 30s, the silkscreen logo on
the headstock, really thick v-neck, _ and also on the inside, you can't really see this well, but
they use cloth reinforcing strips on the sides as opposed to the, the [D#] wooden ones that they use [F#] now.
Just a really great