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    Rayna Gellert is an old-time fiddler, and her CD "Starch and Iron" has a tune on it called Katie Bar the Door. It's a great tune, but I cannot find the music for it anywhere. I learned it by ear, and I think I've got it pretty close, but her fiddling style is to play almost all double stops with a lot of slurs, so it is sometimes hard to pick out exactly which notes are being played. I'm also not positive that I have the chord progression exactly right.

    Have any of you mando players played this tune? Have you heard any other versions of it? Do you know the chord progression?

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    Brad B.

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    Brad,
    Great CD and great tune! I've been listening to this CD almost nonstop for ~3 weeks. I've fooled with the tune a bit, but like you say there are some bowing tricks that are hard to replicate on mando. Check the CD jacket to be sure whether or not Rayna Gellert is playing out of a different fiddle tunings on that cut (key of D, I don't think so).

    I think the chords the guitar is playing are the following (by measure)
    A part:
    D - D - D - A - A - G - A - D

    B part:
    D - D - D - D - D - G - A - D

    But, there spots, like right at the beginning of the G part, where the fiddle double-stops the E and A strings for a few counts, over what sounds like a D guitar chord, which ends up sounding like A and D chords superimposed. So an alternate B part accompaniment could be:

    A - D - A - D - D - G - A - D
    Jeff Rohrbough
    "Listen louder, play softer"

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    Here's a version with a PDF on the screen.
    Enjoy!


    https://youtu.be/_7NAkbNFM8E

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