I went looking for that link under the post heading but the first 5 Barry posts show up blank, and I got confused... was there sheet music or an instructional video in those posts? Subsequent posts seem to refer to these opening ones.

Curious about how fast you wanna play this... since its Bluegrassy. Maybe cut the tune down to two notes - I can bow faster than I can stick the fingering. (Just doin' the best I can with what I've got to work with over here

Nope. I'm always the last one to get wind of what's going on. I didn't know there was a jam track. Where is that bad boy?

I love love love playing with others - even its just a jam track. I get really lonely practicing by myself.

I just kinda stumbled onto this. I saw Fishnrodds play it, and I thought it was really cool his Dad taught him, so in the spirit of tradition, I picked it up by ear from him. Out of curiosity, did some poking around researching the song and found the original score of the pop piece by Thurland Chattaway, in Eb major. And just as luck would have it, I am working on Eb major. So I paid five whole bucks for the original score and as I had the tune in my head, was using it as a practice piece for Eb major. And, I like the sound of the Eb and Ab chords, so I starting plunking around adding drones and chords - especially on G and D strings. Not a lot of pieces at my level focus on that side of the fingerboard, and my precision is weak there. To help set my ear to Eb, I plunk out the chords on the guitar, then hop to the violin. If my ear gets discombobulated on the fiddle, I stop for a second and plunk out the chord on the piano, then go back to the double stop on the fiddle. As the song is actually sad, I quite like the softer sound of chorus with the Eb, "now the moon shines, on little Redwing". That said, it takes skill I don't have yet to play it in Eb M at the recommended bluegrass crotchet=100. Gonna be a couple months before I have any sort of consistency in that key on the low strings.

I also found free bluegrass arrangement, titled "bluegrass version of: "The happy farmer: by Robert Schumann, which must avoid the copyright on Redwing. Anyhoo, the bluegrass piece has what seems to be a standard fiddle variation in the key of G. I had set that aside for a bit to focus on the Eb. Planned to come back to it for bowing practice - for me, the variation is a nice opportunity to practice a Nashville Shuffle on a song that is new to me.

But for now, for a faster speed, I'd have to drop the new keys and fancy variation and go straight for the tune! I'd be happy to pick it back up if there was a project and other people to share with. Even if I totally stink, I'd be sure to share my best effort!!!!!