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Mandolin Lessons: “Salt Creek”

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[MUSIC]
>> Okay.

We'll gonna try Salt Creek now.

Its a classic tune that everybody plays.

I first heard Doc Watson play it on
guitar.

And its one of the most popular played
tunes in your Bluegrass jam sessions.

Starts with a slide.

[MUSIC]
On the D string, up to the A.

[MUSIC]
And

at the same time we're playing the open A
string.

[MUSIC]
Typical fiddle move.

It's kind of the classic fiddle move for a
tune like Sally Goodin, for instance.

[MUSIC]
They always start that way.

So, here it goes.

One, two, three and.

[MUSIC]

Okay.

We've got our first big position shift.

[MUSIC]
And

we're bringing our first finger up to the
high A note on the, on the E string.

[MUSIC]
And this puts us in third position.

[MUSIC]
So, you're playing A, B, C-Sharp.

[MUSIC]
And the F-Sharp on the A string.

[MUSIC]
And the E on the,

on the A string at the seventh fret.

So here on this kind of position.

[MUSIC]
And then we move down to a G chord, and

you simply take the whole position down
and play the same riff in the key of G.

[MUSIC]
Come back up to A.

[MUSIC]
Then there's what we call a tag.

[MUSIC]
And these tags can be many things.

[MUSIC]

So, tags are a whole world

unto themselves and they still are doing
the basic turnaround.

[MUSIC]
That function as a one chord and

a five chord, then a one chord.

And melodically,

it's where we get our most sort of, juicy
moments for improvisation.

Because this is the skeleton of the tune.

[MUSIC]
At that moment.

[MUSIC]
We kinda have to play that stuff to feel

like you're really playing the tune, and
come back to the A, but now we're freer.

[MUSIC]
Or.

[MUSIC]
Okay?

I'm gonna write out a couple of these for
you.

You'll see them in, in the written out
materials.

But I encourage you to just think
conceptually as,

as these moments as being moments where
there's a little more freedom.

So here we go with the guitar at 60, Salt
Creek.

>> One, two, three.

[MUSIC]

Third position A, down to G.

Back up to A, third position.

[MUSIC]
Tag.

[MUSIC]
D section again.

[MUSIC]

Okay.

Now let's put, try the rhythm.

[MUSIC]
A chord.

D chord.

And G chord.

Then an E chord.

And then back to an A.

Okay.
And were gonna bring this up to 80 now

since it's just the chords.

Try you guys to play along.

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G.

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E.

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A.

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D.

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G.

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E, A.

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D, G, E, A.

Nice chopping chord here.

[MUSIC]
Really just hearing

the backbeats nothing else.

[MUSIC]
Focusing on the low strings.

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Not the splanky kinda high.

[LAUGH]
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But more of this dark.

[MUSIC]
Even you can do it with two fingers.

[MUSIC]

All right.

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