| New Camptown Races, Part 1 |
New Camptown Races, Part 1
Mandolinist Frank Wakefield’s instrumental tune “New Camptown Races,” written and first recorded in the 1950s, has become a contemporary bluegrass favorite. It has an unusual chord progression and structure, with 16-bar A parts, and it’s played on the mandolin and fiddle in Bb. That would usually mean that a guitarist would play it out of G position with a capo on the third fret, but in this lesson you’ll learn to play it in Bb without a capo. Scott begins by showing you the Bb scale in open position and some of its similarities to other scales: for example, the fingering for the Bb scale on the fourth and third strings is the same as the fingering of a G scale on the second and first strings. Then he walks you through his arrangement of the A part, slowly, phrase by phrase.
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