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June 2006 · Bimonthly
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There's More Pretty Girls Than Oneby Dix Bruce This mandolin solo is from my new Mel Bay book "String Band Classics for Mandolin: The Highwoods String Band." I transcribed a number of great tunes recorded by this seminal 1970s old time revival string band and collected them for the book. There's also an edition available with guitar TAB. Both books include tunes, songs, solos, lyrics, chords, and tablature. The Highwoods String Band was fiddle based and the fiddle(s) took the lead on most of their recorded material. This solo was adapted from a higher octave fiddle solo and will give you practice up the mandolin neck. The trick to playing it is to devise a logical fretting hand strategy and stick with it. Toward that end I have added fretting finger numbers between the standard notation and the tablature staff. I suggest you use tremolo on notes longer than quarters. If the triplet in measure 44 gives you trouble, just play the first two notes as regular eighths. I hope you'll visit me online. I've just posted my Musix Newsletter #9 and it includes five songs that you can download for free in TAB and MP3 format. Have fun pickin'! 
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