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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Indian and the Woodhen

Key of G
Form: AAAB

This is a tune from Manon Campbell. The recording is short, and he doesn't play it consistently with the extra beats, so I had a hard time figuring out exactly what he was going for.

I also have a field recording of David Lynch playing it. In that recording, he plays the A part four times through instead of three, and he reverses the phrases in the B part.

In Jeff Todd Titon's Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book, his transcription shows the A part played three times, and the two phrases of the B part to be identical. This transcription is closer to the recording on Slippery Hill.

So, I had to take a bit of creative licence with this one. I hope my end result is what Manon Campbell intended. I settled on AAAB, with the phrases in the B part reversed from the David Lynch recording.

Here's my arrangement/transcription:


Guitar Backup:

64 bpm:

82 bpm:

100 bpm:


Backup + Melody:
82 bpm: