Cattle in the Cane
guitar intermediate
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- 🔒 A Parts
- 🔒 B Parts
- 🔒 Slow
- 🔒 Rhythm & Chords
Cattle in the Cane is a unique fiddle tune in that the A parts are in the key of Amaj, but the B Parts are in Amin. We're gonna play this one with no capo, in A position, and establish a fairly straight-ahead melody that is fun to pick! Let's moooooooove on.
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Patty Lindstrom
Got about 80% of this one down but the third measure keeps tripping me. Anybody else find that part awkward at speed?
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flatpick_dad
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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Patty Lindstrom
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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Sam Whitlock
Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.
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SlowHandSteve
Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.
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Katie Clark Support
Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.
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Marcy Kern
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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