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Buck’s Run, Part 1

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Buck’s Run  
 
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Buck’s Run, Part 1
Buck’s Run, Part 1
 
“Buck’s Run” comes from the great but under-recognized mandolin player Buck White and it has become a bluegrass mandolin jam session favorite lately. It’s a fairly simple melody but uses some open strings and double stops in unusual ways. The melody of the A part is based around a B–C# hammer-on played up the neck on the D string, instead of the A string, which allows the A and E strings to ring with the melody line. It’s fingered with the index finger at the seventh fret, and it also has some tricky syncopation. Joe walks you through the A part phrase by phrase in this video.

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