need help figuring out a lick
Hello
I'd like some help deciphering a fiddle lick to that I can apply it to mandolin.
In the song Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels plays some various fiddle licks. When he gets to the line "Granny does your dog bite? No, child, no" he then plays a series of licks that, near as I can tell, are just some simple arpeggios.
Now if we set aside the question of what chords he playing and just listen to the arpeggios, my best guess is he's playing 3rd - root - 3rd - 5th a couple of times, and then finishes with 3rd - root - 3rd - 5th - 7th - 5th -3rd- root.
Am I anywhere even close to being right?
'Cause it seems to me that simple arpeggio fits quite comfortably into a thousand songs, and if I can just work my way up to 120 BPM on the metronome then I'll have done something very worthwhile for myself as a mandolin player.
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