I'm working with Jack Tottle's Bluegrass Mandolin (great book). He provides music with some breaks in dot and tab form for Careless Love, but the music is in the key of B flat. Same with Nine Pounds Hammer, but in the key of B. I fiddle a bit and understand the advantage to fiddlers of playing in the keys of A or D. And I understand the reason to use a capo on guitar to suit the singers's range, yet let the guitarist use the C or G shape chords. But what's the reason for keys like B or B Flat or F? When I learn the breaks, I can't play with anyone else in another key, since some/many of the notes in the breaks use open strings. Just curious....
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