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A tablature and Guitar Pro file of the famous Bob Wills tune – Faded Love was added to the store.

Faded Love-a sentimental Bob Wills song naturally suits the resonator guitar (Dobro) for its haunting melody and good playability. This is my arrangement in the key of D. I prepared it for the intermediate players, but this piece should be in the vocabulary of every Dobro player.

The tablature can be found on my store page and you can watch the video of myself playing it here:  classroom page or on my YouTube channel.

A tablature of Mike Auldridge’s tune – Bud’s Bounce was added to the store.

This is a country-swing tune that Mike recorded on the album “Mike Auldridge and Old Dog” released on Flying Fish label in 1978. The tune shows Mike’s excellent ability to arrange those types of not typical bluegrass Dobro material and contains many of his signature licks that became the basics of modern Dobro playing.

The tablature can be found on my store page and you can watch the video of myself playing it here:  classroom page or on my YouTube channel.

A tune called Old Town was added to the shop. This is a mandolin tune written by mandolinist Butch Baldassari. I always thought this might be a good Dobro instrumental too and here is the result. The original song is in the key of E, but for the Dobro, I decided to play it in the key of D with a capo on the 2nd fret. This is a common strategy if you want to play fast licks in E and use the open strings for hammer-on and pull-offs which the key of D provides. The tuning is the standard G.

You can watch the video on my classroom page, or on my YouTube channel.

A tablature of Azalea Waltz written by Kathy Chiavola was added to the store.

I heard this interesting, beautiful waltz on the album of mandolin player Butch Baldassari. I thought it might suit well for the Dobro thus my arrangement. It has a bit unusual chord structure, but that’s what makes it beautiful.

Listen to the great Butch’s version on his album “A Day in the Country”.

The tune is in the key of A.

A tablature of the fiddle tune Crazy Creek was added to the store.

I heard this tune for the first time on Bill Keith’s “Something Old” banjo album. It has not a typical chord structure but it’s an interesting one. Usually played in the key of A so putting up a capo on 2nd fret is a necessity.

There is a great version of this piece on Sally VanMeter’s solo album “All In a Good Time” so check it out for more inspiration.

Two tablatures were added to the store.

The first one is often asked Jerry Douglas’s rendition of tune Ride The Wild Turkey written by Darol Anger recorded on Jerry’s album Slide Rule. You can watch me playing this one on the Classroom page of this site.

The second one is an interesting Mike Auldridge beautiful little tune called Southern Rain from Mike’s 1976 self-titled album. The tune is played in unusual B major tuning (F#BD# f#bd#).