As one of my first tunes, I've been learning the Jack Tottle arrangement of 'Arkansas Traveler.' Digging through the cafe archives turned up lots of folks who used his Bluegrass mandolin book to learn their first tunes, so I was surprised when I couldn't find an audio recording of Tottle's arrangement of this tune anywhere. I have MP3s of the original record that came with the book, but this tune wasn't included.
It may just be my beginner's ear having difficulty imagining the notes played at three or four times the tempo that I can manage, but I can't seem to separate the core of the melody in the B part/chorus from what I assume are fills or accent notes (the transcription just lists them all as eighth notes). Playing all the notes through with equal weight sounds wonky.
The closest recording I could find is Jeff Guernsey playing here, but the fingerings he's using for the B part are different from Tottle's (the notes may be as well, I can't really identify them without slowing it down).
Does anyone have a recording of this flowery version of the song at a moderate tempo? Or maybe a TEF of the Tottle tab? Thanks
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