1001 Rag
Acoustic Guitar Track | 1001 Rag by Heather Enid Wells | Free Download
An authentically styled ragtime piece, this is all one guitar with no overdubs or multi-tracking. This is the final version and is shorter and a little brisker than the previous ones from 2009 and 2012.
Yet another songwriter-guitarist-singer. In that order. Though I earn my living mostly playing bass.
I play bass with various bands in many genres, and also perform at mainly acoustic-style venues as a solo songwriter-guitarist-singer (in that order)
Independent artist Heather Enid Wells drops "1001 Rag", an Acoustic Guitar track on SoundClick. Featuring fingerstyle, the production has a distinctive and cohesive sound. The kind of acoustic guitar cut that earns its place in a playlist and stays there. Need a beat for your next project? "1001 Rag" is available with a royalty-free Creative Commons license on SoundClick.
Story behind the song
This is a difficult piece to play but great fun, and I now include it in my live playlist.
There is free tab for this piece and for the rest of the album on my website:
http://www.travellingrecords.co.uk/sleepingdogs.html
The tabs are jpgs, just right-click on the tab, "Save As", then you can resize and print them.
The melody for the main theme was inspired by a TV ad here in England many years ago for 1001 carpet cleaner. That was sung in harmony, sort of doo-wop style with a Mr Bassman singer, and one day messing about on the guitar I thought "That would make a cracking Rag!"
I added my own bassline, and wrote the other sections from scratch.
My recording was done on a Parker Fly Classic guitar. Despite the name, it's a solid electric guitar, but set up to sound acoustic.
Lyrics
This is an instrumental, but the original that inspired it did have lyrics.
They went something like:
"1001, 1001, gets rid of that workaday frown.
1001 cleans a big, big carpet for less than half a crown!"
Yes, the ad was that old... we haven't had half-crowns since before 1971!
