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This was one of the first tunes I learned on piano as a kid and I've loved it since. I have to say it makes a pretty cool bluegrass tune! This one is full of tricks: melodics, inside rolls, and single string pickin' all in one! Enjoy, cause it's a lot of fun to pick!

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  1. Karen Doyle

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. Nate Overby

    ♥ 8

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  3. Katie Clark Support

    ♥ 27

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

  4. Nate Overby

    ♥ 1

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  5. Roy Ellender

    ♥ 11

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  6. Owen Brady

    ♥ 8

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

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