↳ reharmStandard, salted · flat the tonic's 7 on the way to 4 — the fiddle-tune turnaround
Inside moves to graft onIN·10 Dominant of 5the 2⁷ in the B part — Salty Dog's engine, available everywhereIN·09 Dominant of 4the 1⁷ kicking into the 4 chord on the turn — one blue note, and the string band swingsIN·21 Passing dim7 to 5the #4°7 walkup under a banjo roll — gospel's gift to the string bandWays outOUT·01 Truck Driver: Up a Half Stepcapo up a fret between fiddle tunes — the acoustic truck driverOUT·17 Drop-Down: old 4 = new 5old 4 becomes new 5: the drop-down that keeps the open strings ringing
Target notes, chord by chordChord tones ON the beat, approach notes off the beat — the flatpicker's law. Kickoffs target the 5 sliding to 1; tags land 3rd-to-root, shave-and-a-haircut style.How the scale is playedMajor scale streams in relentless 8ths with b3 and b7 as passing blue notes; crosspicking rolls turn chords into rivers. The metronome is a bandmate.Genre theoryCapo choice is theory: G shapes capoed to sing in B keep the open-string roll system intact. Double-stop 3rds and the b3-to-3 hammer are the fiddle's voice on frets.