Wow!  lol thanks guys!  appreciate that! ☺️

So this isnt that difficult but just takes sorta gettinv the base melody in your head.  I put a shaker sound on 120bpm but only on 1 & 3 so it probably came out more like 60bpm if you do a straight 4 beats.  i may correct that if im thinking wrong.   i claimed i was done for the day sooo.. not gonna check 😇

Then instead of trying to hit every single note id drop off a couple of eighths and combine the previous to make up the difference usually at the end of different measures.   You can compare and tell where i believe.  Change it up to make it flow for you.  whatever feels good.  I slid up to some notes and cut a few here and there.  kept away from rolls and the like.

As far as guitar ...i went for the acoustic next.  The original tune im gonna link is in Amin but think since i kept fingering the same as fiddle on viola its a Dmodal..maybe emodal?  Ill need to think a bit.  never used Em and kept the Am..anyway.  Knowing that I started with a D chord.. and just figured out what i liked from there strumming a couple times through.  chords were D, C  mainly.. G and occasional Am.

Wanted to stay simple with electric mainly due to ability but Root Fifth in 2 different octaves and arpeggio of D A and D.  strummed the full chord once or twice.

reverb obviously.  Panned the parts off center with the viola about 15 to the left on a 0-100 scale.  acosuyic opposite on the right.  various spread with the electric.

theres a ton of tunes out there if you truly like this sound that you can experiment with.  Thats why I like using the root 5th octave drones withput any type of beat sometimes.  Or the reverse...throwing some non traditional beat on and seeing how the notes fall.  Improvising like youve been doing @JohnG is perfect practice for it.

heres the original from thesession

Castle Kelly

thanks again!!