Where to Now?

The Musical Journey Never Ends

Now that you’ve learned Red Haired Boy, it may be time to take a look at some more fiddle tunes to start building your repertoire.Salt Creek has a lot of similar melodic lines and chord progression. New Five cent piece is another great fiddle tune to add to your rep. It is in D so a lot of the hand shapes will be very similar to playing in A. You may also want to Check out Freight Train and get comfortable in a new key, C in this case. The arrangement is very simple, so make sure to check out all the Substitution licks.

• Song

  Salt Creek

  Mandolin - Advanced

  • Difficulty
    

  • Key
    A
  • Tempo
    90 bpm
  • Tuning
    GDAE

  More notes and longer lines make up this version of Salt Creek, and the B section requires a lot of shifting, which is a fun challenge. Make sure you play with that me...

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• Song

  New Five Cents

  Mandolin - Intermediate

  • Difficulty
    

  • Key
    D
  • Tempo
    85 bpm
  • Tuning
    GDAE

  Now we're gettin' fancy ;)

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• Song

  Freight Train

  Mandolin - Intermediate

  • Difficulty
    

  • Key
    C
  • Tempo
    110 bpm
  • Tuning
    GDAE

  Chromatic walks. Sixteenth notes. It didn't take much, but now the Freight Train is starting to gain some speed. Want to put some proverbial coal on the fire? Use the...

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